Lyuben Lyubenov Dilov Jr. (
Bulgarian: Любен Любенов Дилов-син) (born 19 November 1964), also known as Luben Dilov Jr. and Ljuben Dilov Jr., is a Bulgarian writer, journalist, film director, and politician.
Biography
He studied journalism at
Sofia University
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" () is a public university, public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution of higher education in Bulgaria.
Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constr ...
and subsequently worked as an editor for a number of publications. In the 1990s, Dilov Jr. was the ideological force behind some famous talk shows such as
Slavi's Show, "Canaletto", "Hashove" and "КU-KU". He has also been active in politics, being the founder of the
George's Day Movement (Bulgarian: Движение Гергьовден, Dvizhenie Gergyovden), which was for a long time aligned with the
IMRO
The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it init ...
.
Dilov's "Gergyovden" participated in the
2014 Bulgarian elections in a coalition with the
Bulgaria Without Censorship
Reload Bulgaria (; formerly Bulgaria Uncensored, ) is a populist political party in Bulgaria.
History
The party was founded by former TV host Nikolay Barekov in January 2014. It ran for the first time in the May 2014 European Parliament electio ...
(Bulgarian: България без цензура) political party.
His father,
Lyuben Dilov
Lyuben Dilov Ivanov (Любен Дилов Иванов, 25 December 1927- 10 June 2008), occasionally spelled Luben Dilov, Ljuben Dilov or Liuben Dilov was a Bulgarian science fiction writer of the Communist era and the author of acclaimed chi ...
, was a famous Bulgarian writer.
Dilov Jr. has three children with his wife, Elina, from whom he has separated.
References
External links
website
Writers from Sofia
Journalists from Sofia
Bulgarian film directors
Politicians from Sofia
1964 births
Living people
Film people from Sofia
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