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Author Garth Greenwell: Bulgarian is the most beautiful language in the world

This week, readers of The New Yorker are reading a story set in the centre of Sofia. The story is called "An Evening Out" and is by American author Garth Greenwell. 

He published his first novel “What belongs to you” last year and it, too, is set in Bulgaria. 

The book in English is nominated for the US National Book Award. In the interview he gave for The New Yorker, Greenwell says that “Bulgarian is the most beautiful language in the world”, ploshtadslaveikov.com writes.




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