Vladimir Gandelsman is the 2011 recipient of the highest award for poetry, the Moscow Reckoning Prize. He was born in 1948 in Leningrad, and has been living in the United States since 1990. Gandelsman is the author of eighteen poetry collections and two volumes of collected works, as well as numerous translations of British and American poets into Russian.
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.
A collection of very short stories. In Russian.
Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.
