Dimitré Dinev was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1968 and attended the German-language Bertolt Brecht Gymnasium in Pazardzhik. After completing his military service from 1987 to 1989, he fled to Austria in 1990. From 1991 he studied philosophy and Russian philology at the University of Vienna. Since then, he has published screenplays, short stories and essays in German; his plays have been staged at the Burgtheater in Vienna, among other venues. Recurring themes in his work include migration, identity and European history, as well as the experience of living between different languages and cultures.
His literary breakthrough came in 2003 with his family saga "Engelszungen" (Angelic Tongues), which attracted wide attention across Europe. In 2025 he received the Austrian Book Prize for his second novel, "Zeit der Mutigen" (The Time of Heroes). Dimitré Dinev lives in Vienna.