# Georgi Gospodinov

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EP #13: What's Really Behind Nostalgia

If we didn’t stir up any reflections on the topic of time in our last episode (in conversation with our future selves), we’re fairly certain we will with this week’s episode. This week, we’re taking a closer look at the phenomenon of nostalgia, of what really underlies this complex human experience…

From Sofia to Chicago

Boxy Moskvitch and Lada cars, pastel-green concrete tiles, derelict playgrounds, intermittent hot water: these were the markers of Izidora Angel’s childhood in 1980s Sofia. “Banana-Yellow Trabants,” her essay for our Autumn 2025 issue, takes its name from the Duroplast car that her grandfather, and…

We Must Love One Another or Die

Today we discuss W. H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939," by way of Georgi Gospodinov's award-winning novel Time Shelter, and Auden's message for uncertain and fearful times. There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must…

The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading

How is it that a seven-book series written in Danish about a single day repeating over and over has become something of a sensation among the literary set? Since the English translations of Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” series were first published in the United States in 2024, they …

Georgi Gospodinov & Chris Power: Death and the Gardener

In his latest novel Death and the Gardener Georgi Gospodinov, Bulgaria’s leading writer of fiction and winner of the International Booker Prize (forTime Shelter), reflects on the subject of loss in a tale about a father, a son, and an orphaned garden in a fading world that spans from ancient Ithaca…

Moving Europe: Literary Interventions - Episode 4: Goodbye to Europe: Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter (2022)

In this episode, Ksenia Kwiecińska (rMA Comparative Literary Studies at UU) and Toby Kommeren (rMA Arts, Media, and Literature  at LU) discuss Georgi Gospodinov’s Booker Prize-winning novel Time Shelter (2020). If, as Gospodinov proposes, writing can be a cure for nightmares, what nightmare is Time…

Time, Memory & the Art of Translation with GEORGI GOSPODINOV & ANGELA RODEL

“We are in the middle of a labyrinth which suggests to us many fake corridors. What's the superpower of literature? Literature is like an antidote against propaganda. Propaganda explains the world easily in a two-dimensional way.  Literature gives you a more complex explanation. Literature tells pe…

Literature, The Lives of Animals & the Future of Humanity w/ G. GOSPODINOV & A. RODEL - Highlights

Today, we have a conversation about time, memory, and the bittersweet geography of human sorrow. Georgi Gospodinov is widely considered one of the most daring voices in contemporary European literature. His acclaimed novel, The Physics of Sorrow, won the prestigious Jan Michalski Prize in 2016, ble…

The Circle of Life: Artists & Scientists on Reconnecting with the Natural World

"We need to learn from the animals how to live more gently, consume less and look out for each other in this great circle of life.": Our shared moment in time reminds us that we are one part of a vast ecosystem. Today, we explore how humanity can live in harmony with the Earth by paying attention t…

The Circle of Life: Artists & Scientists on Reconnecting with the Natural World

"We need to learn from the animals how to live more gently, consume less and look out for each other in this great circle of life.": Our shared moment in time reminds us that we are one part of a vast ecosystem. Today, we explore how humanity can live in harmony with the Earth by paying attention t…