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Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel win International Booker Prize for 'Time Shelter'

This win is a first for a Bulgarian novel — the author and translator will split the prize money. Time Shelter imagines a clinic for Alzheimer's patients where each floor reproduces a past decade.
Translator Angela Rodel, left, and author Georgi Gospodinov have won the 2023 International Booker Prize for <em>Time Shelter.</em> They are pictured above in London on May 23, 2023.

This year's winner of the The International Booker Prize is a unique spin on time travel. The novel by Georgi Gospodinov, with a translation by Angela Rodel, imagines the 'first clinic of the past,' in which Alzheimer's patients can visit

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