An extract from Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel
Read an extract from Georgi Gospodinov’s 2023 International Booker Prize-winning novel Time Shelter, translated by Angela Rodel
Angela Rodel
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, Angela Rodel is a literary translator, actor and musician who lives and works in Bulgaria
Originally from Minnesota, United States, Angela Rodel holds degrees from Yale and UCLA, and has received NEA and PEN translation grants. Her translation of Georgi Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow won the National Book Center’s 2015 Peroto Prize for best translation from Bulgarian, the 2016 AATSEEL Prize for Best Book of Literary Translation and was nominated for the three most prestigious translation awards in the US: finalist for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize, the 2016 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association, and Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award for 2016.
Her poetry and prose translations have also appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, Little Star, Ploughshares, Granta.org, Two Lines, and Words Without Borders, among others. In 2014, she was awarded Bulgarian citizenship for her translation work and contribution to Bulgarian culture.
As well as working as a literary translator – and teaching literary translation in Bulgaria – she has also been a singer in a Bulgarian folk band, acted in a Bulgarian crime drama, and starred in a film, Kozelat, in which she rides a goat.
Angela Rodel’s translation of Time Shelter was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, announced on April 18, 2023.
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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.
Translated by Angela Rodel
