Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for 'Time Shelter,' a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia.
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov holds up his book "Time Shelter" translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel after winning The International Booker Prize 2023, in London, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for "Time Shelter," a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia.
Gospodinov, 55, said he began writing his book about "the weaponization of nostalgia" in 2016, the year of the election of Donald Trump and the U.K.'s Brexit referendum. He said it was a time when "anxiety was in the air." "It's a very profound work that deals with a contemporary question and also a philosophical question: What happens to us when our memories disappear?" she said.
The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a translated work of fiction published in the U.K. or Ireland. It is run alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction, which will be handed out in the autumn.
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