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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 best traditions

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

...That is why this holiday is beautiful. Because we celebrate the coming of a child. And when there is a child, all of us become children. And fathers and mothers. Each of us is Jesus, each of us is Joseph, each of us is Mary. This is not blasphemy; it is the meaning and the miracle of life. And a miracle is a very personal thing. My own

The weighty publishing house Gallimard has bought the rights of Georgi Gospodinov’s novel Time Shelter. The book is expected to come out in France next year translated by Marie Vrinat-Nikolov. The novel has already been sold into 12 languages in the year of its publication. In the US Time Shelter will be published by Liveright, an imprint of Norton.

Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel - how to translate sorrow and first reading from Time Shelter in English.

Leading Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov - author of the widely translated masterpiece The Physics of Sorrow - here talks about literature’s resilient quality and its close connection to science and empathy. "After all, we are made of books we have read" Louisiana Literature Festival, Copenhagen, Louisiana Channel 2019

On Saturday 19 October in Wrocław, Angelus Central European Literature Award was presented for the 14th time, the most important distinction for writers from Central Europe whose books were published in Polish. This year, for the first time the winner is a writer coming from Bulgaria. The jury awarded Georgi Gospodinov for his novel The Physics of Sorrow, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie. He received the award from Mayor

The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature is attributed each year by the Foundation to crown a work of world literature. An original feature of the Prize is its multicultural nature. It is open to authors from the world over and is intended to contribute to their international recognition. The Prize will be awarded for works of fiction or non fiction, irrespective of the language in which it is