Now that the turkey’s in the oven, here’s a quick bit of Russian literary news for American Thanksgiving: Leonid Iuzefovich (Leonid Yuzefovich) won the Big Book award for Журавли и карлики ( Cranes and Dwarfs or Cranes and Pygmies )....
Topics: Big Book Awards, contemporary fiction, Leonid Yuzefovich

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Once upon a time last weekend, I picked up Anna Starobinets’s Убежище 3/9 ( Sanctuary 3/9 ) because I needed a long, long rest from Aleksandr Terekhov’s tedious, heavy, portentous combination of fact and fiction known as Каменный...
Topics: Anna Starobinets, available in translation(s), contemporary fiction, detective novels, literary translation, Liudmila Petrushevskaya, Rasskazy

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I’ve been struggling over the small pool of letter “E” writers for a some time, hoping more contenders for favorites would emerge from some foggy compartment of my reading memory. Увы, alas, nothing, though there are some worthy writers: Though.
Topics: contemporary fiction, Mikhail Elizarov, Sergei Esenin, Venedikt Erofeev, Viktor Erofeev

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A few links and bits of news: 1. The Новая словесность (НОС) award -- New Literature but NOSE in the short version – released its short list yesterday: Andrei Astvatsaturov -- Люди в голом ( People in the Nude )....
Topics: awards, НОС, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, NOSE Award

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Aleksei Ivanov ’s Географ глобус пропил ( Geographer Drank Away His Globe ) is, to borrow from Vidal Sassoon’s Wash & Go TV ads in ‘90s Russia, “ два романа в одном флаконе ” – two novels in one...
Topics: Aleksei Ivanov, available in translation(s), contemporary fiction, post-Soviet fiction, Russian novels

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