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Dimitar Kalev
Dimitar Nikolaev Kalev is a Bulgarian physician, poet and humanitarian. Medical career
Since 1986 until 2016, he taught pulmonology and clinical oncology at Medical University – Varna. In 1994 he published a mathematical model for cytological diagnosis of benign and malignant pleural effusions. In co-authorship with prof. Dr. Kosta Kostov published the monograph Plevra (2006)[1] and is a co-founder of the pulmonology journal InSpiro. In 2010, he initiated the national project MORE (multidisciplinary oncology conversations and extracts), which annually establishes national expert boards in oncology and publishes clinical guidelines based on evidence. His initiative was to introduce the GRADE approach into Bulgarian oncology science as a system for assessing the quality of evidence and grading recommendations. The foundation MORE-Darzalas he created has been operating since 2015 and conducts various forms of expert creative activity and continuing medical education in oncology. On his initiative, since 2013, the annual Wreath of Courage award has been awarded - for contribution to Bulgarian clinical oncology. In March 2022, he founded the Joint Oncology National Network (JONN) cluster and was elected the first chairman of its board of directors. Literary workIn 1971, he received the award from the magazine Rodna Rech for the best poem (Kotel). He was influenced by Yavorov, Lyubomir Levchev, Osip Mandelstam, Joseph Brodsky and Robert Frost. He published his first lyric collection, "The Suffering of Light," in 1993. Next: To Water Me Beyond (1996),[2] Triada (2001),[3] In Between (2006), Ether (2011), You Who Kill the Prophets (2020) and Euterposophia (2022). His publishers and editors are the writers Georgi Markovski, Vladimir Zarev, Angel G. Angelov, Elka Nyagolova and the literary critics Panko Anchev, Sava Vassilev and Ivan Granitski. Mikhail Nedelchev includes his poem Alpite in the anthology Europa.[4] He received the Varna 2007 literary award for the poetry collection In Between, in which with the cycle Hexameters he revives the ancient verse structure (hexameter) in Bulgarian lyric poetry. He is the author of the libretto of the ballet performance Anna Karenina, laureate of the Varna 2009 award (together with Konstantin Iliev and Ekaterina Cheshmedzhieva). Since 2005 he has been on the editorial board of the literary magazine Prostori (published since 1961). He gravitates towards the literary circle Poslednite ognari (The House with the Machine), together with Krasimir Simeonov, Angel G. Angelov, Temenuga Marinova, Hristo Leondiev, Yuri Luchev and others. In 2024 published a philosophical essay in which he expounded the concept of literary emergentism as a direction in literary theory.[5] Humanities studiesAs a humanist he was influenced by Hegel, Rudolf Steiner and Paul Ricoeur. In 1999 published The Master in Varna[6] – a documentary chronicle of the work of Petar Deunov, the Master, in Varna. One of the initiators of the national conferences Petar Deunov, the Teacher, in culture the space of Bulgaria. Together with Dimitar Mangurov, Preslav Pavlov and Filip Filipov, he launched several original concepts for the work of Deunov as a cultural and religious phenomenon, including as a Bulgarian Reformation[7] and the being Bodhisattva in the 20th century.[8] First proposes the morphology I-Christ-other for structuralist reconstruction of the sermons and lectures of Deunov as text.[9] Introduces different epistemological models for the speech of Deunov as oral public speech: formative judgments (ideal objectivity),[10] moral breathing,[11] emergentism (emergent perception),[12] mental separation and reconnection,[13] ethereal coming (of Christ),[8] intesoctualism (neologism derived from intellectualism and esotericism),[14] etc. In his monograph Petar Deunov, the Master (2022, from the series Duty and Honor) he tries to summarize all contemporary humanitarian interpretations of the problem. Since 2014, in lectures and publications[15] he presents the empirical social utopia for a four-member organization of society, in which four communities function autonomously and co-exist: economic, legislative, scientific-educational and religious. Initiator and one of the editors of the electronic newspaper Synarkhia. RecognitionAccording to Nikola Ivanov, Dimitar Kalev's lyrics contain a symbolic discourse with distant similarities to Ivan Tsanev and Boris Hristov.[16] Yordan Eftimov defines it as poetry, philosophy and poetry science of the Pre-Socratics, and places Kalev himself in the category of "invisible poet".[17] Sources
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