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In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating ...
Georgi Gospodinov Georgiev (Bulgarian: Георги Господинов Георгиев; born 7 January 1968) is a Bulgarian writer, poet and playwright. His novel Time Shelter received the 2023 International Booker Prize , shared with translator Angela Rodel , as well as the Strega European Prize .
Time Shelter is Gospodinov's third novel to be published in English. [10] In an interview with The Booker Prizes, Gospodinov revealed that his inspiration came from the rise of the populism movement in 2016, as well as Brexit, and that his writing was influenced by writers Thomas Mann and Jorge Luis Borges. [11]
The winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize. Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel, is about a dystopian "clinic for the past," where a clinic in ...
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for “Time Shelter,” a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia.
Books that have been awarded the Booker Prize for fiction. ... Booker Prize winners for the authors. ... This page was last edited on 2 November 2024, ...
The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
The Booker Prize Shortlist was announced on Monday 16 September (Booker Prize Foundation) The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday 12 November, and will be awarded £50,000 ...