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...Now, fresh from his Booker win — shared with his translator Angela Rodel — The Physics of Sorrow (also translated by Rodel) is being released in the UK alongside The Story Smuggler, a slim 80-page autobiographical...
...I meet Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, who translated Time Shelter into English, in London the day after they have won the 2023 International Booker Prize....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos Today my guests are the International Booker Prize winners: Georgi and his English translator, Angela Rodel....
...It is the first time that the £50,000 prize, which will be shared equally between the author and the book’s translator Angela Rodel, has been awarded to a Bulgarian novel....
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...This year’s International Booker shortlist includes work by a couple of published poets, a film director and a former security guard....
...But from those crummy-quaint surroundings and others like them emerged, in 1984, Anita Brookner’s Booker-winning Hotel du Lac and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, Martin Amis’s Money, Julian Barnes’...
...We move from what almost borders Angela Brazil territory to something closer to Villette. The school is odder than it seems, its network of rules like vicious tripwires....
...Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The winner of this year’s International Booker Prize — the first Bulgarian novel to bag the award — is a warning about...
...Take a break from the news In this weekend’s podcast Bulgarian author and Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel let us into some of the secrets to writing and translating a prizewinning...
...The other advantage of this place, he says, is that it is 15 minutes from his home in the neighbouring village of Sturry, where he lives with his wife, the Guyanese-born scholar of literature, Denise de...
...Mackintosh’s short, sharp, feminist dystopian novels, however, which include her Booker-longlisted debut The Water Cure (2018) and Blue Ticket (2020), are set in unspecified countries far from heavenly for...
...Judging the International Booker in 2011, she had what she described as a “wobbly”, resigning from the panel after the two other judges awarded the prize to Philip Roth....
...In addition to her short and long fiction, she has written a biography of Ocampo (a close friend of Borges’s whose work Enríquez describes as a “blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice...
...Next week, we’re thrilled to have the winner of the International Booker Prize joining us, Georgi Gospodinov. Georgi speaks English, but his novel Time Shelter was translated from Bulgarian....
...The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini (Fourth Estate) Award-winning science journalist and author Saini embarks on the search for the true roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering the...
...And later on, Angela Carter encouraged me to write. She was as much a teacher as a mentor. How physically fit are you? A lot less fit than I was....
...Highlights of the poetry year include Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage, January), Lurex by the wonderful Denise Riley (Picador, March) and Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (Jonathan Cape, April), the...
...The audio version, narrated by Cathleen McCarron (who’s previously read books by Val McDermid and Denise Mina), David McCallion, Fiona McNeill and Jeff Harding, works excellently with the book’s episodic...
...Phoenix Suns‘ Devin Booker inadvertently paid homage to franchise legend Steve Nash by powering through a match with a busted nose....
...Crack soul session man Booker T Jones was hired to produce his debut album, Just As I Am....
...In 2011, Callil was part of the three-person judging panel for the International Booker Prize, at that time awarded for a writer’s body of work rather than a single novel....
...But Mr Biden was not on her shortlist of preferred candidates, which included Ms Warren, Ms Harris, Mr Buttigieg and New Jersey senator Cory Booker....
...Several Booker Prize-winners (Müller-Elmau mentions in particular Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan –“who loves it here”) have taken part in literary discussions at the Schloss....
...In 1983 Selina Scott stumbles her way through the tables — “badly briefed”, says a sympathetic Wark — not recognising one of the judges, a languidly exasperated Angela Carter....
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