German film director, actress and screenwriter Margarethe von Trotta is to receive Sofia municipality’s Sofia Award. The award ceremony will take place during the 28th Sofia Film Fest, the organizers say. The first woman to have been awarded a Golden Lion will be a special guest at the festival in Sofia and will present her latest movie Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert, a biopic about the relationship of the Austrian poet and author Ingeborg Bachmann with Swiss playwright and author Max Frisch. The film was among the nominations for the Golden Bear award at Berlinale 2023. Margarethe von Trotta is often called the “motor” behind “New German Cinema” and is considered to be one of the foremost feminist film director in the world.
"Through his plays, Jean-Pierre Martinez strives to restore the prestige of comedy as a mirror held out to society" - the playwright's website states. Martinez is the author of 101 comedies performed all over the world, which are studied in French schools..
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov is one of twelve writers from around the world invited to become international members of the British Royal Society of Literature, the organisation announced on its website . The writers were selected by a committee..
The Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Veliko Tarnovo "Sts. Cyril and Methodius" celebrates its half-century anniversary with an interesting exhibition based on student theses and works by current professors from the university in the old capital..
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