Georgi Gospodinov

You may love it or hate it, but you just cannot ignore it. This is perhaps the best way to describe what the annual Jaipur Literature Festival has come to mean for authors, book lovers, publishing industry professionals, and journalists, who write about the world of books. It is big, vibrant, heady, stimulating, tiresome and heartwarming – all at once. At the 17th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival held at Hotel Clarks Amer from February 1 to 5, everyone seemed excited to attend “the greatest literary show on…

In Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov, who won the International Booker Prize this year, explores the relationship between past, present, and future and unravels the collision of temporal dimensions that shape our lives. In this interview, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel, the writer-poet-playwright discusses the challenges of navigating time, and the novel’s broader reflections on the human condition. He reflects on the moral and ethical dilemmas that arise from manipulating time, the interconnectedness of…

Georgi Gospodinov, who is widely regarded as a leading voice in European literature today, has made it to the shortlist of the 2023 International Booker Prize with his newest novel Time Shelter. Translated into English by Angela Rodel, it features a mysterious flaneur named Gaustine, who builds a clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, that promises to heal Alzheimer’s sufferers by reproducing a decade in minute detail thus taking patients back in time. The story is told by an unnamed narrator who has been entrusted with…