site.btaBTA Director General Says Ivan Vazov House-Museum Is the Ideal Setting to Launch New Issue of LIK Magazine
Presenting the latest issue of BTA's LIK magazine, themed "Literature and Memory", BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said on Wednesday: "The Ivan Vazov House-Museum, Bulgaria's first literary museum, opened on November 26, 1926. It is the ideal venue to launch the November issue of BTA's LIK magazine. This house also has a milestone anniversary: Ivan Vazov (1850-1921) had it built in 1895, and it is here that he lived and worked for the longest period."
The November issue of LIK was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the National Literary Museum, which was established by a Council of Minister's order of June 30, 1975, as reported by BTA on that date. The museum opened doors early in 1976. BTA reported that the Cabinet's order establishing a National Museum of Bulgarian Literature was published in issue No. 50 of the State Gazette. "'Its task will be to identify, collect, preserve, study, publish and exhibit the material and documentary monuments connected with the entire history of Bulgarian literature - from the founding of the Bulgarian State to the present day and beyond. A literary archive and a research group will be set up within the museum,' reads BTA's report from 1975," said Valchev.
He said this LIK issue was published in connection with many more anniversaries of notable Bulgarian writers and poets in 2025: the 175th anniversary of Ivan Vazov; the 150th of Kiril Hristov; the 145th of Yordan Yovkov; the 140th anniversaries of Nikolay Liliev and Emanuil Popdimitrov; the 130th of Geo Milev; the 120th of Elias Canetti; the 110th of Petar Uvaliev (aka Pierre Rouve); the 105th anniversaries of Valeri Petrov and Leda Mileva; the 100th of Georgi Dzhagarov; the 95th of Anton Donchev, Penyo Penev, and Tsvetan Stoyanov; the 90th of Vladimir Bashev, Damyan Damyanov and Lyubomir Levchev; the 80th of Boris Hristov; the 75th of Hristo Boychev; and the 65th of Teodora Dimova. "We do not claim to be exhaustive, and it is quite possible that some names have been left out. What matters to us is to celebrate our writers' birth, not their death," said BTA's Director General.
He also said: "This issue carries two major messages. I was struck by how many great literary figures a nation as small as ours has produced, and by how their memory has been preserved with dignity over the years. It also prompts us to reflect on what is still missing - something for which we, the media, are responsible when presenting our literature, both to the Bulgarian people and to audiences abroad."
"One of our ideas is for the World Meetings of Bulgarian Media [organized by BTA every year] to also involve translators from Bulgarian and foreign journalists who write about Bulgaria," said Valchev.
He noted that the latest LIK issue is published in the year when Bulgaria marks the 1170th anniversary of the creation of the Glagolitic alphabet, the first Bulgarian alphabet, by the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius.
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