The day after it allEurope and the Virus of the Past
At the end of 2019, I finished my novel Time Shelter, which was supposed to be a near dystopia...
Gueorgui Gospodínov
Writer
(Yambol, Bulgaria, 1968) He is the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter. The novel has been published in more than 35 languages. Gospodinov gained international recognition with his previous novels Natural Novel and The Physics of Sorrow.
He has several books of short stories, poetry, non-fiction, theatre plays, a graphic novel The Eternal Fly, a libretto for Space Opera, screenplays and social videos. He is the winner of the Premio Strega Europeo (2021), the Usedom Prize for European Literature (2021), the Central European Angelus Award (2019) and the Jan Michalski Prize (2016), among others. His complex narratives engage with the memory of the recent Eastern European past and the present anxieties of Europe and the world.
Portrait: © Tihomira Krumova
Last Update: October, 2024
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