Krassimir Damianov ( bg, Красимир Дамянов; 25 March 1948, in

Sofia, Bulgaria Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

– 11 January 2015, in

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) was a

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n writer and

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...

. Among the projects he worked on are the Asparuhov Bridge construction, The National Institute for Cultural Monuments, The Bulgarian Writer's Publishing House, and the Boyana Cinema Studio; he also worked as a

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in Sofia. Damianov moved to Spain in 1990, where he was the owner and manager of the Cultural Society Arthostal in

Books

*''Why There Is No God'' (1981); *''Devil's Nail'' (1985); *''Tales for Children who Don't Want to Eat'' (1989); *''Diary of a Butterfly'' (2008); *''The House of the Hanged'' (2009).

References

External links

Krassimir Damianov's Profile
on the
Contemporary Bulgarian Writers
Website

1948 births Writers from Sofia Bulgarian emigrants to Spain Bulgarian engineers 2015 deaths {{Bulgaria-writer-stub