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).
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ The immortal first line to L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between wistfully condenses the problems...