Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov is a Bulgarian poet and novelist. He has published three books of poetry, Lapidarium (1992), The Cherry-Tree of the Nation (1996) and Letters to Gaustin (2003). His debut novel, Natural Novel (1999) has been translated into nine languages, including English, French and Danish. His collection of short stories, And Other Stories (2001) has been published in Austria, France and the Czech Republic. He has also published a book, Poetry and Media (2005), on Vaptsarov's poetry. He edits the Sofia literary and cultural weekly Literaturen Vestnik.