Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov was born in Jambol, Bulgaria in 1968. He studied Bulgarian Philology in Sofia, was the editor of a literary magazine, worked as a columnist at the daily newspaper Dnevnik, and is now at the Institute for Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His work includes poetry, short stories, novels, essays, plays, screenplays, opera librettos as well as graphic novels and was translated into more than 20 languages. After receiving several awards for his first two poetry collections, it was his book “Natural Novel” (1999) that garned international attention. Critics equally praised his second novel “Physics of Sorrow” (2012). In 2016 he received the renowned Swiss Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. /// As of December 4, 2018