Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov is a Bulgarian novelist and poet, regarded as the most important contemporary Bulgarian writer. Born in 1968, he won the International Booker Prize in 2023 for *Time Shelter*, a novel in which a clinic recreates past decades to treat Alzheimer's patients, but the experiment escapes into the wider world. He is also celebrated for his novel *The Physics of Sorrow*.