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about the authors & works
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov (born in Yambol, Bulgaria, 1968) studied
Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. A widely-anthologized
poet, now also a fiction writer and playwright, his well-received
first novel,
Natural Novel
– “anarchic” and “experimental” (The
New Yorker), “humorous, melancholy and highly idiosyncratic”
(The Times) and “both earthy and intellectual” (The Guardian)
– has been translated into 17 languages, and lauded for its fluid
new kind of structure.
ThePhysics of Sorrow
is his second sort-of novel, tracing anarrative
around questioning the myth of theMinotaur, while exploring the
Bulgaria of the 1990s and its implications for today. It has won
the Bulgarian Novel of the Year award, and this translation has
just been long-listed by PEN as one of the best books in English
translation of 2015. It is available from Open Letter Books.
We spoke with Georgi Gospodinov about
The Physics of Sorrow
–
you can enjoy this engaging audio conversation
here(35minutes).
Translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel.