Yasha Hain was born into a Jewish family in Soviet Latvia and emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979. He started writing in 2016. Since then he has published five books of poems, short stories, and novels in Russian. His poems and novels were published in Hebrew and English translations. In 2019, he won the Franz Kafka award in the international literary conference “RosKon 2019”.
The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)
This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“Monkey’s Defense” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman, bilingual author of several books of poetry and prose and translator of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems into English.
