Dimitar Peew

Dimitar Alexandrow Peew ( Bulgarian Димитър Александров Пеев ; born July 7, 1919 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria ; died November 5, 1996 in Sofia , Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian writer, best known as an author of science fiction .

Life

Peew studied law and received a PhD in criminology . After completing his studies, he worked as a diplomat, military lawyer and, from 1957, as a journalist. In 1958 he published together with Kiril Maritschkow a first SF novel Ракетата не отговаря ("The rocket does not answer"). In 1966 the first detective novel Алиби ("Alibi") was published. The novella Das Photonenraumschiff (1964) and the short story Das Haar aus Mohammed's beard were published in German translation in the GDR.

bibliography

Novels

• Ракетата не отговаря (1958, together with Kiril Maritschkow)
• Фотонният звездолет (1964)
  • English: The photon spaceship. The New Berlin, 1968.
• Алиби (1966)
• Аберацио иктус (1978)
• Вероятност, равна на нула (1980)
• Джентълмена (1989)

Short stories

• Полет във Вселената (1955)
• Комуний (1962)
• На черната планета (1962)
• Косъмът на Мохамед (1962)
  • English: The hair from Muhammad's beard. In: Klaus Walther (Ed.): Martians. The New Berlin, 1966.
• Опитът успя (1964)
• Неразчетеният надпис (1964)
• Гравитационната гробница (1973)
• А43М приема гости (1975)
• Училището - XXIII век (1975)
• Търсете ни тук (1978)
• Срещата (1978)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 320.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 778.

Web links

• Dimitar Peew in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Dimitar Peew in the catalog of the German National Library
• Димитър Пеев , Fantasy-Wiki (Bulgarian, accessed June 19, 2018)