2023 International Booker Prize goes to Georgi Gospodinov
Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov poses with his book Time Shelter on the red carpet upon arrival for the International Booker Prize award ceremony in central London, UK on May 23, 2023. PHOTO | JUSTIN TALLIS | AFP
Time Shelter, written by Georgi Gospodinov, that seeks to answer what happens to us when our memories disappear has won this year's International Booker Prize.
The £50,000 ($61,859) prize is split between Gospodinov and Bulgarian translator Angela Rodel, giving the duo equal recognition. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2023, Time Shelter centres on the first ‘clinic for the past’ for Alzheimer’s sufferers where each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing patients to go back in time to unlock what is left of their fading memories.
