Mrs Zorka Parvanova visited “Sava Dobroplodni” Regional Library

The cordial and spontaneous meeting between Mrs Zorka Parvanova and Mrs Rositsa Petrova, a directress of the regional library, during the presidential couple’s official visit yesterday in Sliven lasted about fifty minutes. Three deputy mayors of Sliven Municipality attended it – Miss Ofelia Kaneva, Mrs Nedka Energieva and Mrs Zornitsa Alexandrova. Mrs Zorka Parvanova as a patron of the National Children’s Book Festival for the third year got to know the festival’s program in details. She reminded the other guests about her participation in the VIth National Children’s Book Festival in Sliven in 2004 and the pleasurable emotions and memories, which she kept. She shared the fact that the Festival is very popular not only in Bulgaria, but also abroad and that Mrs Putina personally was interested in the festival and the way it was carried out, during their meeting in Moscow on the “Bibliobraz” festival last year. She was pleased by the interesting events, included in the festival’s program, by the selection of writers and publishing houses, by the nominees for the national “Konstantin Konstantinov” prize, by the original advertising strategy and the invitation of  eminent publishers, by the results of the international project LITTLE, in which “Sava Dobroplodni” Regional Library is the only Bulgarian partner. The first lady was especially interested in the topic of the round table this year and in their conversation with Mrs Petrova they discussed the development of the Bulgarian literature литература for youth in the last ten years and the lack of important samples and writes, which can compete and restrict the invasion of the translated foreign novel. She said she felt sorry that she can not attend the VIIIth National Children’s Book Festival, because of her official visit in France, but she will be with its organizers and participants in spirit and in her thoughts.

Mrs Parvanova received a jubilee sculpture and a diploma “For achievements in the development of “Sava Dobroplodni” Regional Library”, dedicated to the 50th jubilee of the biggest cultural institution in Sliven and Yambol regions at the end of the meeting.