Dimitar “Shosho” Kotzev is a Bulgarian film and television director, scriptwriter, novelist, nonfiction author, and translator. He holds degrees in English Philology
from Sofia University and in Cinema Directing from the National Film and Theater Academy. His first feature film, Lora from Morning Till Evening, based on his novel of the same name, came out in 2011. His feature film Monkey (2016) was also based on his screenplay. His second novel, Shrimp, was published in Bulgarian in 2015. Since then his third feature film, The Answer to All Questions, came out, and several theater plays that he produced and directed were staged.