Angela Rodel

Oct 2, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Patricia Lockwood |Paul Beatty |Georgi Gospodinov |Angela Rodel

It should not be surprising to learn that many shortlisted and winning books across both the Booker and International Booker prizes are by authors who have also written poetry. After all, telling stories has long been a part of the poet’s role across cultures and traditions; while the prizes have always celebrated writers who use language in ways that allow us to see the world anew.

May 24, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Granta Books |Michael Hofmann |Georgi Gospodinov |Angela Rodel

The skies opened on the afternoon of 21 May in London, just ahead of the International Booker Prize 2024 ceremony, this year sponsored by Maison Valentino. The event was at Tate Modern, home to the world’s most exciting contemporary art – a fitting location. The cavernous industrial space offered a welcome reprieve from the evening’s downpour for over 200 guests who hailed from across the cultural sector.

Jun 23, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Angela Rodel

What first drew me to Bulgaria was not the literature, but the music: the brassy female voices, the funky lopsided rhythms, the squealing bagpipes. The Mystere les Voix Bulgares sounded like a choir of (albeit deafening) angels when I first heard them as an undergrad at Yale. When I finally got over to Sofia in the mid-1990s to follow these sounds to their source, it’s not surprising I ended up marrying a Bulgarian musician.

Jun 23, 2023 | lithub.com | Angela Rodel

What first drew me to Bulgaria was not the literature, but the music: the brassy female voices, the funky lopsided rhythms, the squealing bagpipes. The Mystere les Voix Bulgares sounded like a choir of (albeit deafening) angels when I first heard them as an undergrad at Yale. When I finally got over to Sofia in the mid-1990s to follow these sounds to their source, it’s not surprising I ended up marrying a Bulgarian musician.

Jun 15, 2023 | frontline.thehindu.com | Georgi Gospodinov |Angela Rodel |Aditya Sinha |Rahul VermaRahul Verma

My father had Alzheimer’s for the past decade and a half and died this year. I was writing a memoir about him when Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter landed. This left me both chagrined and happy because Time Shelter riffs on Alzheimer’s, the slipperiness of time, and the treachery of memory. Chagrined because Gospodinov beat me to it, and happy for the same reason because Gospodinov has taken an idea and flown with it in the maddest manner possible.