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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After the Ball is a novella written by Tolstoy in one day in 1903, and turned out to be a prophetic…
The latest book from the Russian-born bilingual Londoner, Zinovy Zinik, is consciously labelled “A Gothic Novel”; and it adopts and…
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…
