Vladimir Sotnikov
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Vladimir Sotnikov
Belarus - Russia - Germany

Vladimir Sotnikov was born in Belarus in a family of village schoolteachers. He graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute, where he took part in Vladimir Makanin’s seminars on creative writing. His short stories, novellas, and novels have been published in the journals Yunost’, Oktyabr’, Znamya, Kontinent, and Yasnaya Polyana. He is the author of numerous children’s adventure books as well as adult fiction, including the novels Pokrov (Pokrov), Spilled Water (Prolitaya voda), Emma’s Smile (Ulybka Emmy), Kholochye (Kholoch’e), Ea (Ona). He wrote the script for the film adaptation of Andrei Bitov’s novel, Flying-Away Monakhov and for numerous television series. He is the winner of the Bunin Prize for “Philosophical Depth of Artistic Imagery”. He is a professor at the Free University.

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
Length: 1:35:40