Usedom Literary Award 2021 for Georgi Gospodinov
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 of Central European prose with its irrepressible need to uncover successive layers of human experience. His way of writing focuses on language as the most perfect tool of knowledge for the ephemeral. The author confidently transcends the boundaries of accepted conventions and creates complex, complete narratives that cannot be categorized into specific genres and currents.
