Literary critic and historian, translator, journalist, editor and
publisher, SvetlozarZhekov is genuinely bound up with the culture of altering
Bulgaria. Co-founder (together with Stefan Savov and Alexander Shourbanov) of one ofthe first clubs for democracy – the one within the
Bulgarian Translators' Union, he takes a committed and active part in the
democratization of the country and its culture. As director of the
National Book Center (1997–1999) he has exerted serious efforts in establishing
an effective dialogue between the Government and the book community in
Bulgaria: he organized two national conferences dedicated to the problems in
the book sector; he presented both to the Government and the book community his
innovative program “Bulgarian National Heritage”, envisaging the publication
of 100 Bulgarian classic authors and free dissemination of these editions to
the libraries, as well as digitalization of the publications into multimedia
editions and wide access to everything written in them and about them through a
specially designed for the purpose webpage.
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