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MOSCOW, May 24. Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov won the International Booker Prize this year for his novel Shelter, according to the award's website.
«Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel (translator — ed.) have won the 2023 International Booker Prize for The Shelter,» the report said.
The novel was published in Bulgarian in 2020, followed by an English translation in 2022. In the center of the story is the story of the treatment center «Return to the Past», in which patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease are treated in an unusual way. Patients pass through the floors of the clinic, each of which reproduces the past decade in great detail, thanks to which people can get from memory what they have already forgotten, the synopsis of the novel says.
Shelter is a brilliant novel full of irony and melancholy. This is a profound work that poses a contemporary question: what happens to us when our memories disappear? Georgi Gospodinov writes about both individual and collective destinies with amazing success, and it is this complex balance between the personal and the common that convinced and touched us,» Leila Slimani, chairman of the jury, is quoted as saying.
The International Booker Prize was established in 2005 Unlike the Booker Prize, which is awarded annually to English-speaking authors from the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth, the International Booker is awarded to foreign writers for books translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.The winner receives £50,000, which is shared equally with the translator .