The book “Black Sea Upanishad” recounts the past three years of the globe-trotting writer and poet’s life. Here we find him a happy hermit in Sozopol.
Where the writer sees clear signs that the peripheral languages are becoming more central
The writer of childhood among library shelves, reading in grandma's yard and the pinnacle of fiction
We talk to the co-author of the bestselling book The Dawn of Everything about the myth of the State as a “necessary evil”, the origins of inequality and how to change the future, starting with the past
Georgi Gospodinov (1968) is a Bulgarian poet, writer and playwright. One of the foremost European writers of today, says about him Alberto Manguel. Gospodinov’s debut novel, Natural Novel (1999), is published in 23 languages including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Icelandic. His latest book is the novel Time Shelter. Published in April 2020 amidst the quarantine and the peak of the pandemic, it topped the bestselling-books charts in Bulgaria.
Joanna Elmy has long given us good reasons to read and think, but now also in the long form of a novel.
"Оther light" is a video triptych by artists Ralitsa Toneva and Spartak Yordanov inspired by contemporary Bulgarian poetry.
ICU and DA poetry publishing house are part of the rise of small publishing houses in the last 15 years, but that is not the only thing they have in common.
How literary walks are created and what is the role of the city in the work of poets
With her project under development "Bookmarks" Maria Nalbantova explores reading habits and what the small traces say about the past.