Emanuil A. Vidinski (Bulgarian: Емануил А. Видински; born June 1978 in Vidin, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian writer, poet, and musician.
He has published his works in several Bulgarian newspapers (Culture, Literary Newspaper, Capital Light), magazines, and literature web portals (LiterNet, Slovoto, GrosniPelikani). He co-founded the humanistic seminar "Angel" (2003–2004), which focused on the work of Tchavdar Mutafov, Thomas Mann and Feodor Dostoyevsky[1] [2]
Emanuil A. Vidinski authored the collection of short stories Cartographies of Escape (2005) which was among the six shortlisted books for the Elias Canetti Award (2005) and the novel Places to Breathe (2008). He won the Rashko Sugarev Award in 2004 for his short story "4th of October" and his short story "Egon and the silence" took second place at the 2009 short fiction competition organized by Balkani publishing house.[2]
During 2005–2006 he wrote a music column entitled "Musaic" for the Literary Newspaper. In 2004, he and poets Petar Tchouhov and Ivan Hristov established the ethno-rock poetry band Gologan.
Vidinski was the founder and editor of the book series "World Novels" at Altera publishing from 2007–2010. He then worked as an editor for the Bulgarian section of Deutsche Welle, and then as editor-in-chief of Panorama Magazine.[2]
His works have been translated into English, German, Hungarian, Croatian and Spanish.