site.btaBulgarian Cultural Information Centre in Skopje Commemorates Simeon Radev

The 145th anniversary of writer Simeon Radev's birth was celebrated with the presentation of the book Early Memories at the Bulgarian Cultural Information Centre in Skopje.

Early Memories is a kind of a travelogue of the path of the great diplomat and publicist Simeon Radev, a path full of challenges, efforts, hopes and faith," said Iliana Atanasova, Deputy Director of the Bulgarian Cultural Information Centre.

The Bulgarian Ambassador to North Macedonia, Angel Angelov, noted Simeon Radev's 30-year diplomatic career (in Romania, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkiye, the United States, Great Britain, Belgium) and his participation in the signing of the Treaty of Bucharest and his signature to the Angora Treaty in October 1925, taking all the responsibility for it upon himself.

Early Memories is his last book, he wrote it in 1954, when he himself admitted that he had been contemplating how to free his spirit from the oppression he felt and found the best means- to describe his memories of his early years, starting from Resen, where he was born. Simeon Radev did not write later memoirs, and his major work "Builders of Modern Bulgaria" helps us better understand ourselves," Angelov said.

On behalf of the editorial team in the presentation of the publication participated Petar Kolev, and on behalf of the publishers, Georgi Trendafilov pointed out that Early Memories by Simeon Radev is the first book of the project of the Democratic Club and the Research Center "St. Kliment Ohridski", supported by the Bulgarian Development Aid.