For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Georgi Gospodinov lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria. His latest novel, The Physics of Sorrow (Open Letter), was a finalist for several international awards, and has now been longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize in the United States. Other publications in English include Natural Novel (Dalkey Archive Press) and And Other Stories (Northwestern University Press).
However tired of each other they must have grown from time to time, there was always great solidarity among Pastor Fredrik Hammarsten’s children—four boys...