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Time Shelter wins the International Booker Prize 2023

Author Georgi Gospodinov with translator Angela Rodel after winning the International Booker Prize 2023

What everybody is saying about Time Shelter winning the International Booker Prize

As Time Shelter wins the International Booker Prize 2023, here’s what fans and critics are saying about Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel’s timely win

Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter playlist: the prize-winning novel in 12 songs

Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, takes us through the songs and music that inspired his novel Time Shelter

Author Georgi Gospodinov hugs translator Angela Rodel after winning the International Booker Prize 2023 for the novelTime Shelter

What Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel said after winning the International Booker Prize

Read the acceptance speeches of Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, winning author and translator of the International Booker Prize 2023 for Time Shelter

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov translated by Angela Rodel, winner of the International Booker Prize 2023

Everything you need to know about Time Shelter, winner of the International Booker Prize 2023

What’s the book about? Who are the author and translator? What have the critics said? And what are the inspirations behind it? We have all the answers

Reading guide: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel

Our comprehensive guide to Time Shelter, winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, includes a range of discussion points for book groups, insights from the author and further resources

Watch Toby Stephens read an extract from Time Shelter

Watch the actor Toby Stephens read an extract from Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel, winner of the International Booker Prize 2023

An extract from Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel

In Georgi Gospodinov’s International Booker Prize-winning novel, a ‘clinic for the past’ offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers. Read an extract from the opening chapter here

Angela Rodel, translator, and author Georgi Gospodinov, shortlisted for Time Shelter, International Booker Prize 2023

Watch our video interview with Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel

The author and translator of Time Shelter talk about what makes Bulgarian literature unique, the cultural influences behind the book - and the decade to which they’d return if they could

Winner The International Booker Prize 2023

Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov
Translated by: Angela Rodel
Published by: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

A ‘clinic for the past’ run by an enigmatic therapist offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time to a familiar, safer, happier moment.

Pictures from the winner ceremony

Author Georgi Gospodinov with translator Angela Rodel after winning the International Booker Prize 2023

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Maryse Conde and GauZ' at the International Booker Prize 2023 ceremony

Shortlisted authors Maryse Condé and GauZ’ at the International Booker Prize 2023 ceremony

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Author Georgi Gospodinov hugs translator Angela Rodel after winning the International Booker Prize 2023 for the novelTime Shelter

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Translator Julia Sanches with author Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for Boulder, International Booker Prize 2023

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Chair of judges Leïla Slimani with winners Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel

Chair of judges Leïla Slimani with author Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel, after winning the International Booker Prize 2023 for the novel Time Shelter

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Author Maryse Condé with translator Richard Philcox, shortlisted for The Gospel According to the New World, International Booker Prize 2023

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Guests arrive at the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony, Sky Garden, London

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Judges Frederick Studemann, Leïla Slimani, Tan Twan Eng and Uilleam Blacker arrive at the International Booker Prize 2023 ceremony, Sky Garden, London

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Translator Frank Wynne with author Gauz’, shortlisted for Standing Heavy, International Booker Prize 2023

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Trophy and shortlisted books at the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony, Sky Garden, London

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Translator Kim Chi-Young with author Cheon Myeong-kwan, shortlisted for Whale, International Booker Prize 2023

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Margaret Busby CBE, International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony at Sky Garden, London

Margaret Busby CBE at the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony, Sky Garden, London

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Nikki Bedi,host, arrives at the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony at Sky Garden, London

Nikki Bedi arrives at the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony at Sky Garden, London

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Author Guadalupe Nettel with translator Rosalind Harvey, shortlisted for Still Born, International Booker Prize 2023

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Fiammetta Rocco, Administrator of the International Booker Prize, speaks at the 2023 winner ceremony, Sky Garden, London

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David Nicholls arrives for International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony at Sky Garden, London

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Guests seated at the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony, Sky Garden, London

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Nikki Bedi hosts the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony at Sky Garden, London

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Mark Damazer, Chair of the Booker Prize Foundation trustees, with Bee Rowlatt and Nicki Sheard, at the International Booker Prize 2023 ceremony

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International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony dinner at Sky Garden, London

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Martin Ivens arrives at the International Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony at Sky Garden, London

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The International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist

Boulder

by Eva Baltasar

Translated by Julia Sanches

Whale

by Cheon Myeong-kwan

Translated by Chi-Young Kim

The Gospel According to the New World

by Maryse Condé

Translated by Richard Philcox

Standing Heavy

by GauZ'

Translated by Frank Wynne

Time Shelter

by Georgi Gospodinov (prize winner)

Translated by Angela Rodel

Still Born

by Guadalupe Nettel

Translated by Rosalind Harvey

The International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist in numbers

Continents represented by the shortlisted authors

Age of the oldest author on the shortlist

Debut novels on the shortlist

112

Pages in the shortest book on the list

Original languages represented on the shortlist for the first time

Final novel, according to its author

134

Books read by the judges before selecting the longlist and shortlist

Countries represented by the shortlisted translators

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Original features from the Booker Library

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Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on out Ladivine, an unsettling masterpiece from the precociously talented French writer Marie NDiaye

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To mark the 10th anniversary of her Booker win, Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter discuss the book’s exhilarating journey towards publication and the prize

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The best International Booker-nominated translated fiction, as chosen by celebrities

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32 books that inspired the International Booker Prize 2023

32 books that have inspired the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlistees

We asked each of the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlisted authors and translators which works of fiction have inspired them and their careers the most.

10 of the best very short books from the Booker Prizes library

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The Booker Prize 2023

Booker Prize judges 2023: Robert Webb, Adjoa Andoh, Esi Edugyan, James Shapiro and Mary Jean Chan

Meet the judges for the Booker Prize 2023

The judging panel for the Booker Prize 2023 will be chaired by Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan and features Mary Jean Chan, one of poetry’s rising stars, leading Shakespeare specialist James Shapiro, and two much-loved actors, Adjoa Andoh and Robert Webb. Find out more here

The Booker Prizes: live!

Events: What's on and dates for your diary

From intimate gatherings to bustling festivals, book readings to in-depth interviews, we celebrate the finest in fiction at these UK events featuring Booker Prize and International Booker Prize authors

Learn about the winner of the Booker Prize 2022

Shehan Karunatilaka's literary influences for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Ten books that led Shehan Karunatilaka to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

From classic sci-fi to interactive children’s books to previous Booker winners, we reflect on the novels that inspired the author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka interview: 'Sri Lankans specialise in gallows humour'

Reading Guide: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Read the 2022 winner: an extract from The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka on Kurt Vonnegut: ‘The genius I have robbed from the most is Uncle Kurt’

Watch the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist films

The story so far: Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office

The story so far: Lucy Barton recalls the moment she feared her first husband, William, would leave her - and how she eventually left him

The story so far: Jim and Ed, two detectives investigating a series of strange murders in Money, Mississippi, meet Mama Z, a local centenarian who has been compiling records of every lynching in the US

The story so far: As the Father of the Nation addresses a huge crowd in Jidada Square, a group of protestors rise up to call for the return of their country’s ‘disappeared’

The story so far: Joe Coppock, a solitary, partially-sighted child, explores the local countryside in a vivid dream

The story so far: Christmas 1985 in a small Irish town. Bill Furlong, a coalman, revisits the local convent with his delivery - and makes a shocking discovery

The story so far: Maali Almeida, a war photographer, has been killed. In the afterlife, he has ‘seven moons’ to find out who murdered him, while, in the real world, local detectives must first find the rest of his body

The story so far: Lucy Barton, a successful writer living in New York, remembers her daughter’s illness and the break-up of her first marriage

The story so far: Jim and Ed, two detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, are investigating a series of strange murders

The story so far: The Father of the Nation, an elderly, charismatic horse, is the ruler of the war-torn land of Jidada. Crowds gather as he arrives to address the masses

The story so far: Joe Coppock forges an unlikely friendship with a mysterious wanderer named Treacle Walker and is introduced to an ancient bog man, Thin Amren

The story so far: Coalman Bill Furlong visits a local convent and is disturbed by an encounter with a group of girls at its training school

Winner The Booker Prize 2022

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka
Published by: Sort Of Books

Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel won the Booker Prize in 2022. It is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war.