Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Georgiev Gospodinow (also written Gospodinov Georgi Georgiev, Bulgarian Георги Господинов Георгиев; born January 7, 1968 in Yambol, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian writer, prose, poetry, plays and screenplays writes. Several of his works were relocated internationally, including his debut novel, Natural Novel, which has since been translated into 23 languages. Gospodinov lives and works in Sofia.

Life

Gospodinow gained an international reputation through his first novel, Natural Novel (1999). The New Yorker magazine describes him as " rampant, eager to experiment debut" and The Times described it as a " humorous, melancholy and highly idiosyncratic work".

Gospodinow has also written two plays, among others, DJ (short for Don Juan ), which was premiered in Sofia in 2004. It won the award for the best play of the year and was also performed in France and Austria.

Gospodinow is one of the editors of I lived socialism: 171 personal stories (2006; ' Az zhiviakh sotsializma: 171 lichni istorii '), the result of a two-year Internet project, which aimed to stories of ordinary people about life under socialism to collect.

Gospodinow regularly writes columns for the Bulgarian daily Dnevnik and the German wave and is vestnik worked as an editor of the Bulgarian literary magazine literature.

Works

  • Lapidary. ( Лапидариум, 1992)
  • The cherry tree of a people. ( Чeрешата на един народ / Čerešata na edin narod, 1996)
  • Letters to Gaustin. ( Писма до Гаустин / Pisma do Gaustin, 2003)
  • Ballads and maladies. ( Балади и разпади / Baladi i razpadi, 2007)
  • Small morning crime. From the Bulgarian of Alexander Sitzmann. Droschl, Graz 2010.
  • Natural Novel. ( Естествен роман / Estestven novel, 1999). From the Bulgarian of Alexander Sitzmann. Droschl, Graz 2007.
  • Physics of melancholy. ( Физика на тъгата, 2011). From the Bulgarian of Alexander Sitzmann. Droschl, Graz 2014.
  • And other stories. ( И други истории / I drugi istorii, 2001). In German published under the title: ". Gaustín or The Man with Many Names " From the Bulgarian of Alexander Sitzmann. Wieser, Klagenfurt 2004.
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