Bibliotopia 2022 | Interview with Georgi Gospodinov and Kapka Kassabova

"Allure and Danger of Memories: Considering the past"
Moderation: Daniel Medin

Georgi Gospodinov is a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. His work, translated into more than forty languages, has received many national and international awards. In "Natural Novel" (1999, translated by Zornitsa Hristova), "The Physics of Sorrow" (2011, 2016 Jan Michalski Prize) and "Time Shelter" (2022), both translated by Angela Rodel, he uses powerfully inventive language to explore individual and collective memory and to question the future of humanity.

Kapka Kassabova is a Bulgarian and British poet, novelist and writer of non-fiction. Her two most recent books: "Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe" (2017, British Academy’s Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year, the Stanford-Dolman Travel Book of the Year) and "To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace" (2020) are a magical mixture of travelogue, history and family memoir, connecting people to places.