After the novel "Time Shelter" British readers can get acquainted with another book by Georgi Gospodinov - "Physics of Sorrow". It is now published for the first time in the UK, alongside his 80-page memoir. In an interview for The Guardian newspaper, Georgi Gospodinov said that ‘’a novel does not have to be a train moving from point A to point B- it can branch off, just like our thinking’’.
Asked what’s Bulgaria like as a place to write, Georgi Gospodonov said: ''For me, it is a place that is alive with stories that are mostly untold because of the culture of silence that comes from communist times, when it was safer not to say what you think’’. Georgi Gospodinov said that his first publications coincided with the years after 1989, which were filled with energy and a sense of community, like a carnival.
"The Way of the Musicians" (Musicorum Via) is the name of the joint initiative of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Music (NMA), which opens in the "Professor Marin Drinov" Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. "During..
The Symphony Orchestra of Vratsa – Simfonieta, has become a haven for violinist Alena Chekhova. She was born in the Russian city of Tyumen /Western Siberia/, raised in Ukrainian Crimea and lived in Moscow for more than 10 years, where..
European Days of Artistic Crafts are starting today in Bulgaria's Antonovo . The motto of this year's edition is "The Golden Thread", which is why it will begin with workshops on wool felting. Every day until the end of the week, residents and..
The upcoming exhibition of Bulgarian artist George Papazoff in Zagreb on 5 May 2025 was the focus of a meeting at the Bulgarian Embassy in the Croatian..
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