Георги Господинов
Born 1968 · Bulgaria
Helikon 2024 · Winner
Градинарят и смъртта · Gradinaryat i smartta
Georgi Gospodinov · 56 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A son tells the story of his father, a gardener who is now a garden, a man who carried tons of the past on his shoulders and never stopped telling it, and of their last dawn together.
International Booker 2023 · Winner
Времеубежище · Vremeubezhishte
Georgi Gospodinov · 52 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Satire, Speculative, Politics
Translated by Angela Rodel
AI-generated summary:Gaustine, a man who drifts between eras, opens a clinic for the past where people whose memory is failing can go back to the decades in which they felt safe and happy.
Helikon 2018 · Nominee
Vsichkite nashi tela
Title translated by AI:“All Our Bodies”
Georgi Gospodinov · 50 when first published
Short stories · 139 pages
AI-generated summary:Very short stories, funny and absurd, melancholy and ironic, among them selected autobiographies, a census of the night watch, a rooster in the Pirogov hospital and the angel of unread books.
Helikon 2012 · Nominee
Физика на тъгата · Fizika na tagata
Georgi Gospodinov · 44 when first published
Novel · 283 pages
AI-generated summary:A boy speaks from the Minotaur's underground labyrinth, from a cellar at the end of the war, from a basement flat in the 1970s and 1980s and from an old bomb shelter tomorrow, in a novel about empathy and its fading.