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Booker Prize winner for 2023 Georgi Gospodinov attends the Burgas Beach Reads Festival 

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Writer Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the most prestigious literary award Booker for 2023, is a guest of the Burgas Beach Reads festival, which takes place from 9 to 13 August in Burgas. 

Mr. Mr. Gospodinov will meet his audience on Friday - August 11, 2023, at 19:00 on the open stage in front of the FLORA Exposition Center in the Sea Garden of Burgas. 

A total of 23 publishers are participating in the festival with books from Bulgarian and world literature, world classics, novels, as well as a wide variety of children's books. Meetings with authors and translators are part of the accompanying program of the festival, which is held on the initiative of the Municipality of Burgas, the Regional Library "Peyo K. Yavorov" and FLORA Exposition Centre.



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