Dimitar Todorov Dimov (, 25 June 1909 – 1 April 1966) was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist and veterinary

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Biography

Born in

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, Dimov is best known for his best-selling novel

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(, translit. ''Tyutyun'', 1951) which was made into the 1962 film ''Tobacco'' directed by Nikola Korabov. Other novels authored by Dimov are ''Lieutenant Benz'' (1938), a story of fatal love between flawed characters during

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; and '' Damned Souls'' (1945), a tragic tale of a dissolute young Englishwoman's passionate obsession with a fanatical and reactionary

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set in Spain during the

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. His plays included ''Holiday in Arko Iris'' and ''Women with a Past''. Dimov died in

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on 1 April 1966, at the age of 56. There is a bust of Dimov in the Borisova gradina park behind the

Vasil Levski National Stadium Vasil Levski National Stadium (), named after Bulgarian Folk hero, national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski (1837–1873), is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 43,230 seats and is located in the centre of Sofia, on the te ...

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. His daughter Theodora Dimova is also a writer. In addition, a number of

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s across Bulgaria are named in his honor (particularly in his hometown of

and in

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References

Bibliography

* Димитър Веселинов. Френската лексика в романа "Тютюн" he French words in the novel Tobacco София, Сиела, 2009, 304 с. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dimov, Dimitar 1909 births 1966 deaths Bulgarian novelists Male novelists People from Lovech Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery 20th-century Bulgarian novelists Bulgarian veterinarians 20th-century Bulgarian male writers