Alexander Melikhov

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Alexander Melikhov
St. Petersburg, Russia

Alexander Melikhov (pen name of Alexander Meilakhs; born July 29, 1947, Rossosh, Voronezh Oblast) is a Russian writer. He is the author of many well-known books, such as “The Provincial,” “Scales for the Good,” “Confessions of a Jew,” “Humpbacked Atlanteans, or the New Don Quixote,” “The Novel with Prostatitis,” “The Plague,” “Red Zion,” “Love Killer,” “Wise Men and Poets,” “Fools International,” “Birobidzhan – the Promised Land,” “Shadow of the Father,” “Republic of Korea: In Search of a Tale,” “Drifting Idols,” “Armor from the Cloud.” His novels “The Whole World is Allien to Us,” “And There Is No Retribution,” and “A Date with Quasimodo” have been short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize.

Bookshelf
by Ilya Perelmuter (editor)

Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.

by Marina Eskin (Eskina)

“The Lingering Twilight” (“Сумерки”) is Marina Eskin’s fifth book of poems. In Russian.

by Nina Kossman

A collection of moving, often funny vignettes about a childhood spent in the Soviet Union.

“Vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.” —Booklist
“This unique book will serve to promote discussions of freedom.” —School Library Journal

by Ian Probstein

A new collection of poems by Ian Probstein. (In Russian)

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.

Videos
Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman
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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday
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