In the 19th century Russia gave us some of the world’s greatest novelists and short story writers, the outstanding Men…
andrey kurkov
If a day spent reading a book you love can be compared to a great festival, a joyous holiday, that…
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…