Dimitar Mantov

Dimitar Stefanov Mantov (13 October 1930 – 28 July 2008) was a Bulgarian historical novelist. Dimitar Stefanov Mantov was born on 13 October 1930 in the village of Bosilkovtsi, Ruse region in a family of teachers. He received his primary education in his native village, graduated from high school in the town of Polski Trambesh. As a student he edited the youth literary magazines "Young Creator" (1945–1946) in Polski Trambesh and "Spring" (1947).Mantov graduated from Sofia University and initially worked as lawyer, and later as journalist and editor at Narodna Mladezh Publishing House and at the Center for Literary Information. He was author of the scripts for the documentaries "Old Manuscripts", "Balkan War", "Aleko Konstantinov" as well as author of mostly historical novels and several adventure novels. He died on 28 July 2008, at the age of 77.