Georgi Gospodinov

Болгарія

Georgi Gospodinov (1968) is the International Booker Prize winning author of Time Shelter. The novel is published in more than 35 languages. 'Could not be more timely... A writer of great warmth as well as skill' (The Guardian). In 2022, the novel was the New Yorker, Guardian and Financial Times book of the year. Gospodinov became internationally known with his previous novels, Natural Novel and The Physics of Sorrow. He is the winner of the Premio Strega Europeo (2021), the Usedom Prize for European literature (2021), the Central European Angelus Award (2019), the Jan Michalski Prize (2016), etc. In La Reppublica, Gospodinov was described as ‘a Proust coming from the East’. Gospodinov has several books of short stories, including And Other Stories, And All Turned Moon, All Our Bodies. His works include also poetry, nonfiction, theatre plays, a graphic novel The Eternal Fly, a libretto for Space Opera, scripts, social video projects The Slap Factory and Future Cancelled, and many other. His complex narratives are engaged with memory of the recent Eastern-European past and the present anxieties of Europe and the world.