On October 1st and 2nd, the Literary Festival Another Story was held for the sixth time at the Pioneer Home Karpos, Skopije. The subtitle of this regional literary forum is Small Fictions. The festival seeks to affirm experimental literary forms and meetings of literature with other media. This year's winner of the main prize of Another Story Festival is the prominent Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov. "
Cronorifugio (the Italian version of Time Shelter) is shortlisted for Premio Strega Europeo. This is second nomination for Gospodinov after The Physics of Sorrow was shortlisted for the same prize in 2014.
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov is this year's winner of the Danish literature award Zinklar for his Blind Vaysha and other stories. A jury of writers and critics said that reading Gospodinov "is like traveling in a time machine offering a mind-expanding journey through the maelstrom of history and the labyrinths of the human mind". Gospodinov is an internationally recognized poet, writer and playwright, one
Time Shelter won the Novel of the Year National Literary Award given by the Foundation "13 Centuries Bulgaria".
The aim of these course is to introduce the students the subjectively selected novels among the most important masterpieces of 20th century world literature. Pointing out the main streams and models of modern literature as well as the main models of cultural analysis of literature works is no less important. Within the framework of the discussion on the selected novel the problem of the very concept of world
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Georgi Gospodinov will receive a new high acknowledgement for his contribution to the European literature. The writer will be awarded the Usedom Literary Prize in Germany. Its jury this year is presided by the Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. According to the jury statement, Georgi Gospodinov is a significant and unique voice of European literature. His work - fragmentary, full of melancholy and poignancy - draws on the
Natural Novel (translated by Zornitsa Hristova, Dalkey Archive Press, 2005) was chosen in Top 100 together with writers like Bulgakov, Milan Kundera, Ivo Andric, Danilo Kis, Dostoevski, Gogol, Hrabal, Celan, Cioran, Dovlatov, Tokarczuk, Ugresic... "We asked writers, poets, translators and academics to help us pick 100 of the best books from Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, available in English". (The Calvert Journal). Natural Novel is
The Physics of Sorrow has already become a part of the European literary canon, wrote Olga Tokarczuk, the Nobel Prize winner. Her words are on the front cover of Georgi Gospodinov’s novel. The news is that after the first print run was over, now the book comes out in Poland for a second time, in hard cover edition. "A thrilling exploration of the myth that happens