Maria Galina
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Maria Galina
Odesa, Ukraine

Maria Galina was born in Kalinin (now Tver) and grew up in Ukraine. She started publishing fiction in the 1990s under the pen name Maxim Golitsyn. Two of her novels, Little Boondock and Mole-Crickets, were nominated for the Big Book Award in 2009 and 2012. She is also a prize-winning poet and a literary critic, as well as a regular contributor to the literary journal Novyi Mir. Since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine, she has lived in Odesa.

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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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