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
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

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.

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by Tsipi Keller

Solitary Pleasures is a collection of short stories by Tsipi Keller.

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

700x500 Picture Fiour Centuries
by Ilya Perelmuter (editor)

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

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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