Akhra Ajinjal

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Akhra Ajinjal
Kyiv, Ukraine

Akhra Ajindzhal is a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, and art historian of Abkhaz origin. In 1982, he graduated from the Sukhumi Art College. From 1982 to 1987, he studied at the Department of History of Art at the Moscow State University. While studying at the university, he continued drawing and painting. In 1987, he graduated with a diploma in the history of modern art of Abkhazia. From 1987 to 1992, he was employed by The Art of Abkhazia, an art magazine. He authored more than fifty articles published in Abkhazia and Russia. Since 1993, he lives and works in Kyiv.

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by William Conelly

Young readers will love this delightful work of children’s verse by poet William Conelly, accompanied by Nadia Kossman’s imaginative, evocative illustrations.

by Maria Galina

A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.

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by Aleksandr Kabanov

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by Yulia Fridman

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by Nikolai Zabolotsky

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by Art Beck

A collection of essays and reviews by Art Beck. “These pieces are selected from a steady series of essays and reviews I found myself publishing in the late aughts of the still early century.”

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