Reading List
Georgi Gospodinov
Bulgarian Novelist and Poet
Georgi Gospodinov, born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1968, is a Bulgarian writer, poet and playwright. His novel Time Shelter won the Strega European Prize, and in Angela Rodel’s English translation it won the 2023 International Booker Prize, which author and translator shared. The Physics of Sorrow earned the Jan Michalski Prize and the Angelus Award, and his work has been translated into 25 languages. His picks here, from a Shelf Awareness interview, include Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time, Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek, Borges’s The Aleph and Other Stories and García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez · 2004 · Fiction
“If I had to point to just one example, let it be the beginning of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. It has everything that a brilliant novel is made of” — via Article, May 2022
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis · 2014 · Classics
“Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. I want to recall what it's like to be 18, alone in a deserted village, reading this energizing book when life is ahead of you.” — via Article, May 2022
A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov · 2016 · Classics
“I was also shocked by the way the story was told. It was the first time I'd encountered such a nonlinear composition and, looking at my novels today, it must have left quite an impression on me.” — via Article, May 2022
Letters on Ethics
To Lucilius
by Seneca · 2017 · Classics
“A letter a night gives comfort in this mad world.” — via Article, May 2022
