The Latest Breaking News from Georgi Gospodinov

Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov review – how it feels to lose a father

The International Booker winner explores Bulgarian family life under communism in this moving depiction of a son’s bereavement

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2025

From Bulgaria To The English Channel: Tracing Trafficked Migrant Boats

The Kapitan Andreevo border post, one of the busiest in Europe, is more than 150 kilometres (90 miles) from the nearest sea, but Bulgarian customs officer Georgi Gospodinov is on the lookout for dinghies.

International Business Times · Apr 8, 2024

Georgi Gospodinov: ‘There was a culture of silence – it was safer not to say what you think’

The Bulgarian author and International Booker prize winner on his newfound fame, how communism influenced his style of writing, and winning praise from footballer Hristo Stoichkov

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2024

Clubland boss Richard Caring hits out at council red tape over planned revamp of Mark’s club

Getting approval is “like giving birth to triplets,” he said

Evening Standard · May 24, 2023

Bulgarian writer wins International Booker Prize for darkly comic memory novel

Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel have won the International Booker Prize for “Time Shelter,” a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia

The Independent UK · May 23, 2023

International Booker prize announces first ever Bulgarian winner

Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, translated by Angela Rodel, portrays a ‘clinic for the past’ and was praised as a ‘great novel about Europe’

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2023

The 2023 International Booker prize shortlist – review

A cautionary Bulgarian tale of nostalgia, an anarchic story set in South Korea and two novels exploring motherhood are among this year’s contenders

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2023

International Booker Prize 2023: our experts review the six shortlisted books

From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on May 23.

The Conversation · May 19, 2023

International Booker prize reveals ‘very cool and very sexy’ shortlist

Two of the six books are translated from languages that have never featured before in the prize

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2023

Putin doesn’t want the war to end – he wants to blast us back to the 40s Soviet era

Russia is harking back to the glory days of the second world war, writes the Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2023