Bulgarian Schoolchildren Prized for Essays on Radichkov

Society | June 19, 2007, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Bulgarian Schoolchildren Prized for Essays on Radichkov Monbat's Chief of Management Board Atanas Bobokov (L) awards the first prize in the essey competition to Blagomira Velcheva. Photo by Maria Angelova

Bulgarian schoolchildren were once again challenged in a yearly competition to write essays on one of the literary miscellanies of prominent writer Yordan Radichkov.

The author seen as living classic of Bulgarian literature passed away on January 21, 2004, a few months short of turning 75.

This year the children had to put their imagination into writing over the topic "The verblyud can turn even the greenest garden of friendship into sand", which is based on Radichkov's shrot story "Verblyud" (a strange evil creature from the ancient days in Radichkov's story that had the power to destroy and turn everything into desert sands).

The competition is part of "The Wonderful Northeast" project, supported in the past several years by company Monbat. The project's goal is to popularize the values, traditions and achievements of North-Eastern Bulgaria by patronizing various cultural and art initiatives.

In 2005 the competition widened its scale to nation-wide, rather than covering only North-Eastern Bulgaria as it was before.

All high-school students aged fifteen to eighteen were eligible for participation and 145 essays were submitted. They were evaluated by a jury with diverse backgrounds, including, among others, prof. Boyan Biolchev, Rector of Sofia University, Valeri Zapryanov, editor of Tema magazine and writer Alek Popov.

Five essays were selected by the jury, and the first prize - a bank account with BGN 3,000 for educational purposes was opened in the name of winner Blagomira Velcheva from the town of Veliko Tarnovo.

Second place and a BGN 2,000 account went to Vassilena Ikonomiva from Varna, and three more students were awarded BGN 500 each for a third-place tie.

Monbat's Chief of Management Board Atanas Bobokov, who sponsored the event, said this competition has turned into a good tradition.

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