Dimitar Hristov
Biography
Dimitar Hristov is a Bulgarian poet, playwright and literary translator. He was born in 1957 in Blagoevgrad, and grew up in Sofia where he graduated in Bulgarian philology and rhetoric from St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. He has worked for the Union of the Bulgarian Writers as a desk officer in charge of poetry-related issues, as chairman of the creative fund of the Union of the Bulgarian Writers, and editor-in chief of Bulgarian Writer Literary Newspaper. He created and presented the weekly Poetry Time TV show. He has worked a s chief expert for the Ministry of Culture and was Director of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Skopje. At present, Dimitar Hristov is Director of the Union of the Bulgarian Writers. He has won a number of national and international literary awards. He is member of the Union of the Bulgarian Writers and of the Union of the Bulgarian Journalists.