site.btaBulgarian Writer Georgi Bardarov Launches EU Prize for Literature Winning Novel in Berlin

Absolvo Te, a novel by Bulgarian writer Georgi Bardarov, winner of the EU Prize for Literature, has been translated into German by Roland Schmieger. The book launch for Germany will take place at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin on March 22. The audience will be able to put questions to Bardarov, who will be a special guest, and to the translator.

The novel deals with four plot lines which examine philosophical questions relating to crime, punishment and forgiveness. There are two space-time continuums in the novel: the Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict of the 1970s and 1980s.

Assoc. Prof. Bardarov is a geographer, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Geology and Geography at Sofia University and Head of the Department of Socio-economic Geography. He is a three-time winner of the Master of Words Speaker Competition. Bardarov's Of the Fifth Rakia, or How Beautiful Life Is is the Internet's most-read Bulgarian short story.

In 2021, Bardarov won the EU Prize of Literature for Absolvo Te along with 12 other authors named by national juries. He received the prize from Bulgarian EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel in Brussels on November 9. Afterwards the writer met with Bulgarians living in the Belgian capital.