Scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences were awarded the Zlaten Vek Award of the Ministry of Culture. The Zlaten Vek award ceremony was held today in Sredets Gallery. Minister of Culture Nayden Todorov presented the awards and stressed that the national enlighteners were those people who gave meaning to the existence of the nation.
A necklace and a diploma for outstanding contribution to the development and consolidation of Bulgarian culture and national identity and on the occasion of November 1, the Day of the National Enlighteners, were awarded to:
Acad. Vassil Kazandjiev – in connection with the 90th anniversary of his birth and for his enormous contribution to Bulgarian culture as a composer in all musical genres, a conductor of great merit in the interpretation and recording of Bulgarian composers, a pedagogue who educated a host of distinguished conductors.
Corr. Mem. Georgi Gospodinov – the most translated and most awarded Bulgarian writer outside Bulgaria. The first Bulgarian to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel “Time Shelter”. He has won numerous other prestigious literary awards in Bulgaria and Europe. Recently he became a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His poems are included in a number of international anthologies and have been translated into various languages.
Prof. Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova – she is among the most thorough researchers of the Early Bulgarian Middle Ages, a scholar of international renown. For more than 35 years, she has been studying the area of the western fortress wall in the first Bulgarian capital, Pliska. For years she has been researching important archaeological monuments in Dobrudzha.
The names of all the winners can be found at https://mc.government.bg/newsn.php?n=9497&i=1
