Bulgarian novelist and poet Georgi Gospodinov and the American-born translator Angela Rodel have been named the winners of the 2023 International Booker Prize in a ceremony overnight at London’s Sky Garden.
Publishing Perspectives readers know, of course, that there are too Booker prizes. This one is not the Booker Prize for Fiction, but the International Booker Prize, focused on translation.
Its £50,000 prize (US$62,108) is split into £25,000 (US$31,054) each for Gospodinov and Rodel.
There also is a purse of £5,000 (US$6,210) for each of the shortlisted titles: £2,500 (US$3,105) each for the author and for the translator or, again, divided equally between multiple translators.
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In Time Shelter, Zurich is the home of an Alzheimer’s treatment technology, a so-called “clinic for the past” that reproduces past decades, allowing patients to explore their compromised memories.
As might be expected in today’s cultures, healthy people soon begin looking to the clinic’s services, as they work to escape the daily challenges of contemporary life.
This International Booker Prize is, of course, a highly meaningful win for Hachette’s Weidenfeld & Nicholson division, which has published the work in the United Kingdom.
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