Ivaylo Ditchev

In this Bulgarian name, the patronymic is Stefanov and the family name is Ditchev.

Ivaylo Stefanov Ditchev (Bulgarian: Ивайло Стефанов Дичев; 28 March 1955 – 6 November 2023) was a Bulgarian anthropologist. He was a professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University. He also taught abroad, mainly in France and the United States.

Biography

Ivaylo Ditchev was born on 28 March 1955.^[1] He held a doctorate from Sofia and Paris-7 universities. He focused on political culture and urban anthropology of Southeast Europe and the Balkans. Ditchev died on 6 November 2023, at the age of 68.^[2]

Works

• Cultural scenes of the political Sofia, Prosveta, 2019
• Culture as distance. 11 essays in cultural anthropology. Sofia University, 2016
• Citizens beyond places? New mobilities, new borders, new forms of belonging, Prosveta, 2009 (Bulgarian)
• Spaces of Desire, Desire of Spaces. Studies in Urban Anthropology, Sofia, 2005
• Form belonging to identity. Politics of the image, Sofia, 2002
• Gift in the Age of its Technical Reproductibility, Sofia, 1999
• To Give Without Losing. Exchange in the imaginary of Modernity, Paris, 1997

(French)

• Albania-Utopia. Behind Closed Doors in the Balkans, (author, editor) Paris, 1996 (French)
• Eroticism of authorship, Sofia, 1991
• Literalisms, miniatures, Sofia 1991
• Borders between me and me, essays, Sofia 1990
• A second after the end of the world, short stories, Sofia, 1988
• Identification, novel, Sofia, 1987
• Astral Calendar, short stories, Sofia 1982^[3]
• I learn to cry, short stories, Sofia 1979

References

1. Достоверная сказка: рассказы болгарских писателей. 1986. p. 284. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
2. Почина професор Ивайло Дичев (in Bulgarian)
3. Segel, Harold B., ed. (2003). The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945. Columbia University Press. pp. 142–143. ISBN 9780231114042. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

External links

• Personal web page