Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Booker Prize | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
A clinic creates exact replicas of past decades to help Alzheimer's patients retreat into their long-term memories. But as the experiment spreads beyond the clinic, whole countries begin voting on which decade they'd prefer to live in. Winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize.
About the Authors
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*.
Angela Rodel is an American translator of Bulgarian literature who has lived in Sofia for many years. She translated Georgi Gospodinov's *Time Shelter*, for which she shared the 2023 International Booker Prize. She has translated numerous works from Bulgarian, including novels by Zachary Karabashliev and Alek Popov.
