Georgi Gospodinov

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Georgi Gospodinov (b. 1968) is one of the most widely translated Bulgarian authors. His most recent poetry collection is Where We Are Not, winner of the 2016 Quill Award for Poetry. His second novel, The Physics of Sorrow (2015), was awarded the Jan Michalski Prize for literature and was a finalist for PEN Translation Prize.

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov
New York. Liveright. 2022. 304 pages. THE PROTAGONIST OF the novel Time Shelter reads a newspaper article describing a geriatrics doctor who “decked out his office in the st…
To the Door

Autumn 2020
Georgi Gospodinov
Photo: Elia Pellegrini / Unsplash Over time you realize that the only thing you can do is to comfort. Before my grandmother passed, having already dwindled away, she would hold my hand tightl…
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2015. 283 pages. Georgi Gospodinov is a Bulgarian writer, poet, and playwright. He was born in 1968 in Yambol, in southeastern Bulgaria, and spent most of his ch…