Bulgarian

Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, translated by Angela Rodel, has become the first book written in Bulgarian to win the International Booker prize.Chair of judges Leïla Slimani described Time Shelter as “a brilliant novel full of irony and melancholy”, and added: “It is a very profound work that deals with a contemporary question and also a philosophical question: what happens to us when our memories disappear?”Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela RodelThe £50,000 prize, which is split equally between…

Here’s a bitter, odd, quirky shaggy-dog ghost story with a wintry chill. Award-winning Bulgarian documentary film-maker Andrey Paounov makes his fiction feature debut with this adaption, along with British co-writer Alex Barrett, from a stage play by Bulgarian author Yordan Radichkov. Two middle-aged men are shivering in a remote snowy hut just on the border of a dark forest full of wolves. They are the Porter (Samuel Finzi) and the Old Man (Iossif Surchadzhiev), and they are … what? Forest rangers? Officials at a science…

Ruja Ignatova was behind one of the most notorious scams in the frequently treacherous world of crypto currencies. FBI said, "She travelled from Sofia, Bulgaria, to Athens, Greece, on October 25, 2017, and has not been seen since." (Twitter/@emgroupug)…