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

[Stevens, Maurice]

This is such great news! Well done and congratulations, Sarah!! Awesome!

Maurice

[The Ohio State University]
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Associate Dean for Engagement
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Department of Comparative Studies
Faculty Director, The STEAM Factory
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From: Compstall <compstall-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Noyes, Dorothy via Compstall <compstall at lists.osu.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 4:53 PM
To: Folkserv (folkserv at lists.osu.edu) <folkserv at lists.osu.edu>, compstall at lists.service.ohio-state.edu (compstall at lists.service.ohio-state.edu) <compstall at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>, Pratt, Emma <pratt.124 at osu.edu>
Subject: [Compstall] Sarah Craycraft on International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov
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://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/books/international-booker-prize-time-shelter.html__;!!KGKeukY!x6pwkdRDhlA4dJeC-_ZOhwPK5LA6bX6vLLKvBxfjWAysWMlrCjDbNvZmNtbcWqV2NnWOstX0ACGJ-m4pfJkIRWE-XhI$>e. Sarah’s article<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/thecollectiveis.us/?p=6052__;!!KGKeukY!x6pwkdRDhlA4dJeC-_ZOhwPK5LA6bX6vLLKvBxfjWAysWMlrCjDbNvZmNtbcWqV2NnWOstX0ACGJ-m4pfJkIODUOiJ4$> 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.



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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