Don’t miss this chance to hear Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov in conversation with Irish author Rónán Hession (Ghost Mountain, Leonard and Hungry Paul) in MoLI’s Old Physics Theatre.
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, Georgi Gospodinov was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, and his works have been translated to acclaim in 25 languages. Georgi Gospodinov is the most translated and internationally awarded Bulgarian writer to emerge after the fall of communism. His novels, poems, essays, screenplays and graphic novels have established him as one of the leading voices of European literature.
Gospodinov’s novels have been shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes – including the PEN Literary Award for Translation, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Bruecke Berlin Preis, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Literaturpreis – and have won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature and the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize, among others. He was described by La Repubblica as ‘a Proust from the East’. Time Shelter is his third novel to be published in English.
Presented in partnership with the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Ireland.
