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Top Bulgarian Writer Gospodinov Announces 2nd Novel
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The second novel of bestselling Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov will be entitled "Physics of Sorrow."
Gospodinov read out parts of the work, featuring an interplay of biographical narrative voices, at the Apollonia arts festival in Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol.
The writer's first novel, "Natural Novel," has issued in Bulgaria 1999, and soon after gained international recognition, being translated into the world's major languages and making Gospodinov perhaps the best known living Bulgarian author internationally.
Since the 1990s, 1968-born Georgi Gospodinov has also issued a number of acclaimed collections of poetry and short stories, and has widely written for critical and news periodicals.
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