Author Profiles

About the Author:

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Gari Lait
Chicago, USA

Gari Light was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1967. He has lived in the United States since 1980. Since graduating from Northwestern University and becoming a lawyer, he has worked in the area of international jurisprudence, both in the U.S and abroad. Light’s several books of poetry were published in Russian, starting in 1992. His English-language poetry book, entitled Confluences, appeared in both the U.S. and Europe in 2020. Gari’s work is regularly published in literary magazines and takes part in poetry readings on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bookshelf
book Queen
by Borys Khersonsky. Svetlana Lavochkina and Oksana Rosenblum, translators

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.

Iossel book
by Mikhail Iossel

The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to the opposition of past and present in this groundbreaking collection of one-sentence stories: everything is simultaneous, breathless, in a dizzying spin of memory and imagination.

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by Yelena Matusevich

A collection of very short stories. In Russian.

 

Maxim Matusevich's book
by Maxim Matusevich

Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.

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