An interview with Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel | The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 26

In our last episode of the year (time flies!), we catch up with author Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel - winners of the International Booker Prize 2023. The winning novel, Time Shelter, follows an enigmatic therapist who runs a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers. It was the first book from Bulgaria to win the International Booker - and, in fact, to be shortlisted - and its win has been received with much excitement both in Gospodinov's home country and beyond. This week, we catch up with author and translator to find out how the award has changed their lives and what they've been up to since their win.
In this episode Jo and James speak to Georgi and Angela about:
The book, its plot and its themes
What the night of their International Booker Prize win was like
How their lives have changed since winning the prize
What it means for translators to receive recognition alongside the writers they work with
The importance of music in their work
The unique working relationship between writers and translators
Why Bulgarian literature deserves more recognition and which books to look out for
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprize...
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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I'm currently reading the book of the 2022 book prize winner, but time shelter is something to add to my tbr lost since ima therapist myself