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Gospodinov's Time Shelter shortlisted for the Swedish International Literary Award

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The novel Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated into Swedish by Hanna Sandborg, is among the five books shortlisted for the Swedish International Literary Prize. This is a unique award that recognizes both authors and translators. 
The winning duo will be chosen on October 24. 

Gospodinov's novel is published 47 years later after the publication of a previous translation of a Bulgarian novel in Sweden. "The year was strong for translated book publishing. Among the many wonderful titles, we have chosen five fantastic books that stand out for their stylistic brightness and thematic concern," says Athena Farrokhzad, chairwoman of the jury. 
The remaining titles are: What is it you seek, wolf? by Eva Viežnaviec - Belarus; All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubiei Maires - Rwanda/France; Herscht 07769 by the Hungarian Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Being Several by the Norwegian Steinar Opstad. 

The motives of the jury are as follows: "Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Hanna Sandborg, tells the story of a clinic in Switzerland that offers its patients with dementia rooms that are furnished to the last detail as in decades past. Nostalgia acts consolingly, and with the success of the experiment, even healthy people, and eventually entire countries, begin to want to return to the past. Georgi Gospodinov's funny conceptual novel in excellent costume in Swedish, by Hanna Sandborg, is a frighteningly relevant account of our time's anxieties about the uncertain future".

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