site.btaBulgarian Drawing Wins Highest Award at International Children's Art Exhibition

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Bulgarian Drawing
Wins Highest Award at
International Children's Art Exhibition


Sofia, February 8 (BTA) - A Bulgarian child's drawing won the highest award at the 52nd International Children's Art Exhibition (ICAE) in Japan, the Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.

The 7-year-old Yuliyan Shaklev won the highest award - of the Foreign Minister of Japan, with his drawing "Night over the City". The painting is one of the ten works that were chosen to receive the Foreign Minister's award. Yuliyan won second prize in the competition in 2021 together with Kalina Kyukchieva and Lyubomir Cholakov.

The ICAE competition was founded in 1970 in Osaka, Japan, and has been organized every year since then. The main goal of the initiative is the presentation of children's art from all around the world. It gives children aged 3 to 15 the opportunity to show their creativity through drawings and collages.

Some 35,000 art works from 35 countries took part in the competition in 2022.
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