This is the story of Baguette, a domestic ginger cat living in a twelfth-floor apartment, and of his efforts to…
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Gyrðir Elíasson (b. 1961 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic poet and translator, brought up in Sauðárkrókur, a small village in…
The second edition of our magazine, The Riveter, focuses on Russian-language literature and is published today to coincide with our Russian events…
Oliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian Society and Culture at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is Consultant Editor for Russia,…
James Rann is a Teaching Fellow in Russian at the University of Birmingham and formerly an editor of The Calvert Journal. His…
Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught…
Anna Gunin is the co-translator of Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich. Among her translations are Oleg Pavlov’s award-winning Requiem for…
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…
An expert insight into translating Russian literature today How does a translator begin and end a novel with panache, and…
Discover contemporary Russian fiction with Boris Akunin, Alisa Ganieva, Andrey Kurkov and Zinovy Zinik. Our love of the Russian classics…
