In the 19th century Russia gave us some of the world’s greatest novelists and short story writers, the outstanding Men…
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A pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist poem in prose, this describes the entire drama of being a Soviet intellectual – in drunken conversations…
This novel about childhood in Josef Stalin’s era of ubiquitous suspicion and informers makes any reader think deeply about how…
Tolstoy’s final work wasn’t published in his lifetime. It is dedicated to the tempestuous nineteenth-century Avar rebellion leader and a…
PLOT SUMMARY A rumour spreads through Dagestan’s capital city, Makhachkala: the Russian government is building a wall to close off…
At London Book Fair in March this year I met a charismatic and courageous young Russian author and literary critic…
Moscow-born British author Zinovy Zinik lost his Soviet citizenship in 1975 and arrived in London via Jerusalem in 1976. Zinik…
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for…
Alisa Ganieva is a writer of fiction and essays. In 2009, her first long story – “Salam, Dalgat!” about her…
Boris Akunin (pen-name of Grigory Chkhartishvili) – famous as Russia’s leading detective and crime writer, Akunin also writes ‘serious’ literary…
Discover contemporary Russian fiction with Boris Akunin, Alisa Ganieva, Andrey Kurkov and Zinovy Zinik. Our love of the Russian classics…
