The Bulgarian team of students and teachers will “design” the traditional character combining images and human traits from characters taken from Radichkov’s works. Radichkov’s characters – their way of

thinking, behavior, even outer appearance - are nationally unique and universal at the same time. He attracts with his charming oddity and sincerity. Through his whole being he is telling us, “Be incredible!”, as he himself truly is. Be incredible, meaning simply be yourself.

Yordan Radichkov 

(Йордан Радичков)

24 October 1929 – 21 January 2004

Personification of the visible and invisible world

Organic mixture of the metaphorical and conversational language

Sweeping imagination in creating stories and images

Grotesque, queer, eccentric

o Sensitivity and compassion

o Dichotomies:Civilization - nature

local - universal mythology - modernity

o Eternal harmony between man and nature

o Typical Bulgarian values and way of thinking

Live in harmony with the world, nature and the inexplicable

See the world in a pure, somewhat naive way, yet with the wisdom of a child

Read the mysteries and signs of living with intuition, sense of humor and inborn ease.

Book Titles:

“Fierce Mood” “Mad Grass”

“Gunpowder ABC Book” “An

Attempt to Fly”“The Tin Cockerel”

“All and None”

“The human soul is an ocean; can you guess, dear reader,

what pulse is beating in the deeps of that ocean!

We can only stand by the shore and sing praise of it.

But when praising it, we are actually not praising the ocean,

we are praising just the visible foam of its waves.”