[Folkserv] Sarah Craycraft on International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov

[Noyes, Dorothy]

Alumna Sarah Craycraft offers folkloristic context for Time Shelter, by Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov.  Gospodinov’s novel of how nostalgic time travel for Alzheimer's patients becomes a Europe-wide refuge from reality has just won the International Booker Priz<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/books/international-booker-prize-time-shelter.html>e. Sarah’s article<https://thecollectiveis.us/?p=6052> places the novel in conversation with Momata Barbi, an Instagram account, created by a young Bulgarian woman studying abroad, that dresses Barbie up in peasant costume and positions her against “traditional” backgrounds.

This fall, Sarah begins a three-year term as Head Tutor of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.

<https://thecollectiveis.us/?p=6052>


Dorothy Noyes
Director, Mershon Center
Professor, English, Comparative Studies
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies
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The Ohio State University
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noyes.10 at osu.edu<mailto:noyes.10 at osu.edu>

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