Elena Dimitrova (1972) studied Applied Linguistics with German and Dutch and German Philology at the University of Veliko Tarnovo, where she later worked at the Department of German and Dutch Studies(from 2003 to 2020). Since 2007 she has been translating literature from German, she has translated authors such as Thomas Lehr, Ante R. Strubel, Anna Tüne etc. Elena received Schritte Fellowship of the S. Fischer Foundation in 2013 and participated in the International Meeting of Translators of German-language Literature at the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) in 2016 and 2024. Since 2020, she has been working as a freelance translator, and in 2021 she published her first translations from Dutch. Elena lives and works in Veliko Tarnovo.