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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]
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 ...
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 ...
In 2023, Rodel won the International Booker Prize for her translation of Georgi Gospodinov's novel Time Shelter. [1] [2] Rodel was born in Milwaukee. [3] She graduated from Burnsville High School in 1992. She has a B.A. in linguistics from Yale University and an M.A. in linguistics and ethnomusicology from UCLA.
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