Novels in English translation by Boris Akunin (Russia), Daša Drndić (Croatia) and Burhan Sönmez (Turkey) up for €20,000 prize –…
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In the 19th century Russia gave us some of the world’s greatest novelists and short story writers, the outstanding Men…
In my personal list of the best of the best literary texts – written not only in Russian, but in…
“On Monday the thirteenth of May in the year 1876 … numerous individuals in Moscow’s Alexander Gardens unexpectedly found themselves…
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…
‘INTERNATIONAL RIVETING READS’ Launch event for ‘WRITERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!’ a festival of literature and social change. 28th April…
15 – 24 April: Waterstones Piccadilly, 203-206 Piccadilly, London W1J9HD 27 & 28 April: Waterstones Trafalgar Square, The Grand Building,…
A cultural feast of writers and films in London marking 25 years since the Restoration of Georgia’s Independence. Twenty-five years…
