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Man of the Year 2023 award ceremony to be held today

Aleksandar Vezenkov (L), Georgi Gospodinov (M) and Raycho Raychev (R)
Photo: manoftheyear.bg

The Man of the Year 2023 award ceremony will be held tonight. The nominees are national basketball player Aleksandar Vezenkov, who plays in the National Basketball Association, writer Georgi Gospodinov, whose novel "Time Shelter" became the first Bulgarian book to win the prestigious Booker Prize for Literature, and Raycho Raychev - the founder of a Bulgarian company for the development of high-tech and aerospace projects, which in early 2023 launched its own satellite on board SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The Man of the Year competition has been organised since 1990. Among the winners are Bulgaria's first democratically elected President Zhelyu Zhelev, Presidents Petar Stoyanov and Georgi Parvanov, football legend Hristo Stoichkov and others.




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