Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Georgiev Gospodinov ( Bulgarian Георги Господинов Георгиев , often also in German the English transcription Georgi Georgiev Gospodinov ; born January 7, 1968 in Jambol , Bulgaria ) is a Bulgarian writer who writes prose , poetry , dramas and screenplays . Several of his works have been published internationally, including his debut novel Natural Roman , which has now been translated into 23 languages. Gospodinow lives and works in Sofia .
Life
Gospodinow achieved international renown through his debut novel Natural Roman (1999). The New Yorker magazine describes it as a “rampant, adventurous debut” and The Times described it as a “humorous, melancholy and highly idiosyncratic work”.
Gospodinov has also written two plays, including DJ (short for Don Juan ), which premiered in Sofia in 2004. It won the award for the best play of the year and has also been 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 aimed at collecting stories from ordinary people about life under socialism.
Gospodinow regularly writes columns for the Bulgarian daily newspaper Dnevnik and Deutsche Welle and works as an editor for the Bulgarian literary magazine Literaturen vestnik .
He wrote the Bulgarian original version of the libretto for Aleksander Nowak's English-language opera Space Opera , which premiered on March 14, 2015 in the Teatr Wielki in Poznan .
From January to June 2019, Gospodinov will be in Zurich as Writer in Residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich and the PWG Foundation .
Awards
- 2016: Jan Michalski Prize for the physics of melancholy
- 2019: Central European Angelus Literature Prize for the physics of melancholy in the Polish translation by Magdalena Pytlak
Works
- Volumes of poetry
- 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)
- Little morning crime . Droschl, Graz 2010, ISBN 978-3854207672 .
- Novels
- Natural novel . ( Естествен роман / Estestven roman , 1999). Translated from Bulgarian by Alexander Sitzmann. Droschl, Graz 2007.
- Physics of melancholy . ( Физика на тъгата , 2011). Translated from Bulgarian by Alexander Sitzmann. Droschl, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-85420-849-5 .
- Short stories
- And other stories . ( И други истории / I drugi istorii , 2001). Published in German under the title: "Gaustín or The Man with Many Names." Translated from Bulgarian by Alexander Sitzmann. Wieser, Klagenfurt 2004.
- 8 minutes and 19 seconds . Translated from Bulgarian by Alexander Sitzmann. Droschl, Graz 2016.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georgi Gospodinow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Georgi Gospodinow in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Jörg Plath: Life out of the socialist water bottle , Neue Zürcher Zeitung
- Overview of reviews of the natural novel
- Georgi Gospodinov in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The New Yorker: Natural Novel
- ↑ Georgi Gospodinov receives Jan Michalski Prize , boersenblatt.net, November 25, 2016, accessed on November 25, 2016
- ^ From the Bulgarian by Alexander Sitzmann, Valeria Jäger and Uwe Kolbe
- ^ Mythical labyrinth "Physics of Melancholy" , review by Jörg Plath in Deutschlandradio Kultur on March 11, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gospodinov, Georgi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gospodinov, Georgi Georgiev; Георгиев, Георги Господинов (Bulgarian spelling); Gospodinow, Georgi Georgiev |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th January 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yambol , Bulgaria |