The 13-year-old Thomas Kalin Simeonov, Laureate of Yordan Kamdzhalov Foundation for 2020, is the winner of the Gold honours of the “Grand Prize Virtuoso” International Music Competition in Bonn, Germany. He also received an invitation to participate in the Gala Concert at Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. Congratulations, Tommy!

A young actress named Mira Koteva is doing readings of fairytales about princesses, dragons and heroes at https://bit.ly/PrikazkiSMira every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday until New Year. Her readings are part of The Scholarship campaign of the Give a Book Foundation, which is raising money for efforts to promote the development of children in institutional care.

“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” author John le Carre, who cast flawed spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry, has died aged 89.

Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round was the big winner at the 33rd European Film Awards, taking best film, best director, and best actor for star Mads Mikkelsen who plays a boozy high school teacher in the Danish crowd-pleasing dramedy. 

The violinist Zornitsa Ilarionova, who recently won the Grand Prix of the Ohrid Te Sakam International Competition for Young Singers, and the talented cellist Atanas Krastev have recorded together a Christmas present for the lovers of classical music. Their latest video premiere, with music by the German Baroque composer George Frideric Handel - Passacaglia, can now be watched online.

To tell the troubling story of the Netherlands’ deep historical links to the slave trade, the country’s national museum is making it personal. The Rijksmuseum will open a major exhibition on the subject in February, AP reported.

With theaters and concert halls shuttered to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, some Berlin artists are taking their performances to the streets of the German capital in an effort to keep their edge during the pandemic and entertain a population craving cultural interaction, AP reported.

Bob Dylan’s entire catalog of songs dating back 60 years is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing Group, AP reported. The catalog contains 600 song copyrights including “Blowin’ In The Wind,” “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” and “Tangled Up In Blue.”

On the occasion of the Contemporary Art Day, H.E. Stefano Baldi, Ambassador of the Republic of Italy to Bulgaria and Ms Verena Vittur, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Sofia, opened on 5 December an exhibition of photographs by Gustav Willeit, entitled "Natu.rae / DOLOMITI".

In the most seismic shift by a Hollywood studio yet during the pandemic, Warner Bros. Pictures on Thursday announced that all of its 2021 film slate - including a new “Matrix” movie, “Godzilla vs. Kong” and the Lin-Manuel Miranda adaptation “In the Heights” - will stream on HBO Max at the same time the films play in theaters.