Val Votrin is a Belgian speculative fiction writer of Russian origin, writing in Russian and English. He was a finalist of the Andrei Bely Prize, the oldest independent literary prize in Russia, for his 2009 novel The Last Magog. His 2012 novel, The Speech Therapist, was nominated for several main literary awards, including the Russian Booker Prize. His English prose appeared in The Quail Bell Magazine, Trafika Europe, and Eunoia Review.
A new book of poems by New York poet, journalist, and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.
Sailor, artist, lawyer, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of Soviet spies operating in the West between the World Wars. He seduced women to learn great secrets of foreign states, but was then arrested and tortured in the Gulag, where he began to document the crimes against humanity of the regime he had served.
This book features biographies of the author’s family members, detailing with the effect of the war on their lives.
The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.