Dimitar Dimitrov, born 1937 in Chrisa near
Aridaia,
Pella regional unit,
Greece
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, is an
ethnic Macedonian philosopher, writer, journalist, and diplomat who was the Minister of Culture and Minister of Education in the
Republic of North Macedonia
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In
North Macedonia
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, Dimitrov has a reputation for being a
Bulgarophile
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intellectual. Dimitrov is a supporter of the thesis that there was a process of de-bulgarisation in the 20th century on the territory of North Macedonia.
Dimitrov is an author of philosophical, political and children's books. He published three books with short stories for children - "Shepherd boy" (1960), "Goodbye childhood" and "Where we are children" (1962).
[Друговац, Миодраг. Историја на македонската книжевност ХХ век, Скопје 1990, с. 684 (Drugovac, Miodrag. History of the Macedonian literature 20th century, Skopje 1990, p. 684).]
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1937 births
Living people
Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia
Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia
Macedonian children's writers
Macedonian writers
Macedonian diplomats
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Culture ministers of North Macedonia
Education ministers of North Macedonia
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People from Aridaia