The Physics of Sorrow

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Georgi Gospodinov (1968) is a poet, writer, and playwright, and one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. His Natural Novel is published in twenty-three languages (in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive) and was praised by the New Yorker, New York Times, Guardian, Believer, and Village Voice, among others. A collection of his short stories, And Other Stories, was published by Northwestern University Press. The Physics of Sorrow, his second novel, is a finalist for four International European Prizes in Italy and Germany, among them Premio Strega Europeo and Haus der Kulturen der Welt Preis.

Angela Rodel earned an MA in linguistics from UCLA and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study and learn Bulgarian. In 2010, she won a PEN Translation Fund Grant for Georgi Tenev’s short story collection. She is one of the most prolific translators of Bulgarian literature working today and received an NEA Fellowship for her translation of Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow.