2009-02-08

Asseco SEE (Net Consulting) and Romania Literary Magazine Awarded Sympathy Prize

ROMANIA, February 9, 2009: “Literary Romania Foundation and Asseco SEE (Net Consulting), have started a joint cultural project which aims to support and recognize cultural personalities whom implication and authority perpetuate the spirit resonance in an open Europe.

“Literary Romania Foundation and Asseco SEE (Net Consulting), have started a joint cultural project which aims to support and recognize cultural personalities whom implication and authority perpetuate the spirit resonance in an open Europe. Our publication’s tradition and prestige has taken profit of NetConsulting’s generosity – Romanian company which belongs to Asseco Group, largest IT company in Poland – to initiate a new project: “Sympathy Prize”. We wish to be a long-term investment, like any other major cultural acts”, stated Nicolae Manolescu, director of “Literary Romania”.

This year, first prize was granted to Jaroslaw Godun, director of Polish Cultural Institute in Romania “for his energy and devotion to promote Polish culture in Romania, as well as to make relationships between our countries closer”. He is very active and seen as the best director of a foreign cultural institute in Bucharest.

Festivity took place February 6, 2009 in Romanian Writers Association’s location (Mirrors Hall). Literary Romania’s general manager Nicolae Manolescu is a famous literary critic, ambassador at UNESCO Paris, president of Romanian Writers Association. Weekly magazine, Literary Romania magazine is no.1 cultural publication in Romania.

Poland’s Ambassador in Romania, His Excellency Wojciech Zajaczowski (newly appointed in Romania), participated at the event with his wife. Cultural personalities, diplomats and journalists also attended the event.