NOBEL LAUREATES NOMINATE BULGARIAN FOR THE PRIZE

09:05 Tue 14 Aug 2007

Six Nobel prize winners from five countries have nominated the American-Bulgarian Ivan Suvanjieff and his wife Dawn Engle for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

Suvanjieff and Engle established the PeaceJam youth leadership programme, the US's Denver Post reported.

PeaceJam trains a “new generation of young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities and the world through the inspiration of Nobel Peace Laureates”, Denver Post said. The programme has worked with 500 000 young people since 1996, the year of its founding.

Engle said that they were “incredibly humbled by all of this”. “We really are just two very average flawed people,” she said.

Suvanjieff is the son of a Bulgarian emigrant, the Bulgarian daily 24 Chassa reported. He grew up in Detroit and is painter and musician and runs a literature magazine.

His father was from the village of Draganovo, between Varna and Rousse, Suvanjieff said. Before the Nazis came, the family possessed the second-largest farm in the country, he said.

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Comments by George Chaldakov - 10:03 22 Aug 2007
	AT LONG LAST, WE MAY HAVE A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER George Chaldakov, MD Others - six Nobelists, again - not Bulgarians and/or Bulgarian institutions, have nominated the American-Bulgarian Ivan Suvanjieff and his wife Dawn Engle for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize! It may indeed be happened if additional support is focusing on the achievement of such a prestigeous appreciation as the Nobel prize. Why not!, as JFK used to say. However, I am strongly worrying as to whether any Bulgarian institutions (e.g. Ministry of Education and Science and Ministry of Culture) and/or any elite intellectuals will support the initiative for awarding the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for Ivan Suvanjieff and his wife Dawn Engle. Because BG ministers as well as BG "elite" intellectuals are serving preferentially politicians in power rather than creative brain-powered Bulgarians. In such a negative way (one may say "malway"), we have been missing to have Nobelists, as it was possible, for example, for the late writer Yordan Radichkov and now for the great poet Konstantin Pavlov, an Homo sapiens (Man the wise) indeed. We have to act now to reach such a noble goal: Bulgarian to be Nobel laureate for the year 2008, and further on!