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International Poetry Festival Focuses on Serbian Language
International Poetry Festival Focuses on Serbian Language
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The Serbian language will be the focus at the Slavic Embrace 17th International Poetry Festival between May 15 and 18, the organizers said.

This year each month is dedicated to a Slavic language: in March it was Croatian, in April -  Russian, May - Serbian, June - Polish, etc. The festival is under the auspices of President Rumen Radev.

Partners of the initiative are the Union of Bulgarian Writers, the Union of Bulgarian Journalists, the Patriotism National club, the Union of Bulgarian Teachers, the Sustainable Development for Bulgaria Fund.

Guests from Serbia for the May festival will include Academician Risto Vasilevski, Ljiljana Stejic, Vera Horvath and Jasminka Nadashkic-Djordjevic.

The route of the creative meetings is as follows: Kyustendil - May 15, Veliko Tarnovo - May 16, and Dobrich - on May 17 and 18, hosted by the Mayor of Kyustendil Petar Paunov, the philology faculty at Veliko Tarnovo University with dean Prof. Tsenka Ivanova, and the Mayor of Dobrich Yordan Yordanov.

Participants in Kyustendil from the Bulgarian side will be Elka Nyagolova, Boyan Angelov, Ivan Esenski, Nikolay Shopov, Petya Shopova, Ivo Atanasov, Trendafil Vassilev, Hristo Georgiev, Rositsa Kuneva, Irena Pankeva, Georgi Slavchev, Svetla Radkova, Zdravka Radichkova and Angela Dimcheva. 

In Veliko Tarnovo, focus will be on the poetess Petya Tsoneva, who will be honoured with the Silver Flying Feather award of the Slavic Academy. Young poets from the literary club from Veliko Tarnovo University  will be involved, as well as students with their first attempts at literary translation from the Serbian language.

Poets Petranka Bozhkova, Genka Petrova, Sasho Serafimov and Elka Nyagolova will perform in Dobrich. In Dobrich, the Teachers' Choir and the Dobrich String Quartet will perform pieces by Slavic composers. The second meeting in Dobrich will be with high school students from the city's leading high schools.

In Kyustendil, the children from the Kalpazan vocal group will join the programme.

/DT/

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