Literature in the Castle - Dimitré Dinev: Time of the Brave

Name: Literature in the Castle - Dimitré Dinev: Time of the Brave
Start: 2026-09-18T19:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-18T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Schloss Kuenburg

Friday 18 September · 19:30Schloss Kuenburg · salzburg

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Dimitré DinevTime of the Brave[Kein & Aber, 2025]About the authorDimitré Dinev was born in Bulgaria in 1968. In 1990, he came to Austria as a refugee, where he studied philosophy and Russian philology and soon began publishing screenplays, short stories, and essays in German. His plays have been staged at the Burgtheater, among others. He achieved his literary breakthrough in 2003 with his family novel "Engelszungen" (Angel Tongues), which was received with great interest throughout Europe. In November 2025, he was awarded the Austrian Book Prize. Dimitré Dinev lives in Vienna.About the bookWhen the maid Eva tries to end her life in the Danube on the eve of the First World War, she is instead washed into the arms of the young infantry lieutenant Alois Kozusnik. Instead of her life, she loses her innocence. It is the starting point of an epic story that consists of three major narrative strands and continues into the present day...