The Bulgarian Woman of the Year award will be presented at a ceremony on Thursday, the Executive Agency for Bulgarians Abroad (EABA) said.
The ceremony for the 2025 Bulgarian Woman of the Year – St Zlata of Meglen award will be held in the Maxima Hall of the University of National and World Economy (UNWE).
The programme will feature an exhibition presenting nominees from previous years and tracing the award’s history. The ceremony will bring together representatives of Bulgarian State institutions, the diplomatic corps, organizations of Bulgarians abroad, cultural and educational figures, and women nominated over the years.
Established in 2009, the award is presented annually by EABA to honour women who preserve Bulgarian identity worldwide.
The agency also linked the award’s origins to recognition of Spaska Mitrova, who faced persecution and imprisonment in North Macedonia because of her Bulgarian identity, and Konstantina Kouneva (also known as Kostadinka Kuneva), who was attacked with acid in Greece because of her trade union activities.
The prize comprises a bronze statuette of St Zlata of Meglen and an icon reproducing a fresco of the saint in Sofia’s Church of Sts Peter and Paul.
The winner of the Audience’s Favourite Bulgarian Woman award, introduced in 2024, is selected through online voting.
The agency presented all nominees for the 2025 award between August 17 and 31. This year, it received nominations for 29 Bulgarian women from 11 countries.
The nominees are Boryana Velichkova from Berlin, Germany; Valentina Alexandrova-Kirova from Oxford, UK; Vesela Ivanichkova from Karlsruhe, Germany; Viorica Roman from Izvoarele, Romania; Galya Mileva from Vienna, Austria; Gergana Bonia from Essen, Germany; Desi Jordanoff from Washington, US; Desislava Radulovska from Nottingham, UK; Detelina Mincheva from Calgary, Canada; Diana Cholakova from Orlando, US; Ekaterina Lambova from Tvarditsa, Moldova; Elena Naseka from Taraclia, Moldova; Elissaveta Yordanova from New York, US; Elka Ruskova from Seattle, US; Irina Gancheva-Chursa from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine; Irina Stamboliyska from Pori, Finland; Kamelia Ilieva from Prague, Czechia; Katia Bialkova from Munster, Germany; Lyutvie Gencheva from Freiburg, Germany; Magdalena Prufer from Dresden, Germany; Maria Dimitrova from Niagara Falls, Canada; Meglena Lyubenova from Washington, US; Nina Wasilewa-Zanechev from Vienna, Austria; Svetla Anastasova from Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Sevdalina Atanasova from Tubingen, Germany; Teodora Mileva from Vienna, Austria; Tetiana Staneva from Ukraine; Yulia Tasheva from Washington, US; and Yana Belitchka from Montreal, Canada.
Previous recipients include Mitrova from North Macedonia, Kuneva from Greece, Kalinka Kuper from Germany, Petya Tsaneva from Spain, Boyanka Ivanova from the US, Snezhina Mecheva from the UK, Sirma Zidaro from Czechia, Irina Boteva-Vladikova from Austria, Ruzhka Nikolova from Argentina, Vanya Velkova from Germany, Desislava Stefanova from the UK, Irina Gocheva from the US, Zhanna Suslina from Ukraine, Radoslava Nedyalkova from Italy and Anita Ekenova from France.

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