HABITAT EVIDENCE

Sample Translations of Dar Prize Finalists, with support from the WE EXIST! FOUNDATION

Viktor Shenderovich in Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, and Helsinki on May 21, 22, 23, and 25

Literary Meetings and Events, May 16–18

May 23–24 in Madrid: Knigi.Blizko Book Fair

Zhenya Berezhnaya on Nikolai Alexandrov’s Program Not Only About Books

“People Have Been Thrown Out of Their Biographies.” A New Discussion of the Dar Prize Shortlist

Литературные встречи и события с 12 по 16 мая

Dmitry Bykov’s New Novel Black River Has Been Published by Freedom Letters

“From the Author”: A Film Collection of Contemporary Russian-Language Poetry

May 8 in Tbilisi: Vladimir Sorokin to Present the Novel Fairy Tale

A Father’s Testimony: A Genre That Should Not Exist. On Dmitry Petrov’s Novella

A Hell More Terrible than Hell. On Alexandra Krashevskaya’s Book

The Dar Prize at the Berlin Book Fair

April 30: Berlin, London, and Online — Performance, Brodsky, and a Conversation about Fairy Tales

April 29 in Belgrade: Vladimir Sorokin to Meet with Readers

New Books from Freedom Letters: Genis, Kononov, and Prose about War, Disappearance, and Freedom

Thorns in the Ashes: Testimony as Form. On Alexander Motsar’s Book

War as a Mode of the Body’s Existence. On Zhenya Berezhnaya’s Book

April 27 in London: Antony Beevor and Vladimir Raevskiy to Discuss a Book on Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs

От Таро до Эдгара По: Илья Данишевский в разговоре с Николаем Александровым о книге «Дамоклово техно» и эмиграции

Armen Zakharyan’s Book Letters of Obscure Men Has Been Published

The Camera Shutter. On Yevgeny Feldman’s Book

Spending the War Without You: An Archaeology of Survival. On Tatyana Zamirovskaya’s Book

April 18 in Berlin: Public Talk and Presentation of Vadim Zakharov’s Books Artist Must Think

April 16 in Berlin: A Meeting with Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Tolstoy and Nabokov

Nothing but the Heart: A Theology of Perplexity. On Grisha Prorokov’s Novel

A Pocket Full of Children: The Anatomy of Queer Horror. On Ilya Danishevsky’s Novel Damocles Techno

April 11–18: Dina Rubina. Mirrors and Hidden Chambers of Fate in Chișinău, Prague, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, and Luxembourg

April 9–11 in Rouen and Bougival. International Conference Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel

Georgy Urushadze on Books, Censorship, and Freedom Letters Publishing

The Topography of Trauma: A Parabolic Novel about the Impossibility of Paradise. On Ksenia Buksha’s Novel A Little Paradise

What to Read? Literary Critics Discuss the Shortlist of the Dar Prize, Season 2. Episode 2

Поэтика распада: о прозе Игоря Белодеда

Oleg Lekmanov in Katerina Gordeeva’s Interview on Contemporary Literature and Wartime Poetry

March 28 in Amsterdam: Evgeny Feldman. Presentation of the album This Is Navalny

March 27 in Berlin: Masha Slonim. Presentation of the book Returns. An Unserious Memoir

The Mechanics of Seizure: A Moscow Saga as Diagnosis. On Oleg Radzinsky’s Novel Days of Repentance

March 26 in Berlin: Presentation of Anastasia Vepreva’s book On Hold

The Exeter UNESCO City of Literature Writers’ Residency is now accepting applications for 2026

March 24, online, Ksenia Luchenko, “The Sacred Language of War: How Religious Narratives Legitimize Violence”

March 19 in Berlin: Ilya Danishevsky. Book presentation of "Damocles Techno" and "The Bear and the Pendulum"

The Anatomy of a Survivor: A Novel-Epitaph for an Era. On Yuri Troitsky’s Novel Shatz

Preface to the project The Word to Claude. Ways of Evaluating Literary Works

On March 14, Sergey Girin's book “From 3+5 to Z. The Language of One War” will be presented in Prague.

March 12 in Riga: presentation of Sergei Kuznetsov's novel Moss's Meat Grinder

March 13 in Berlin Sasha Filipenko. “How We Fail to Notice the Elephant: Fear, Love, and Collective Blindness”

Tamara Eidelman on Dmitry Petrov's book “Parents' Day”

Oleg Radzinsky on the novel Days of Repentance — a conversation with Nikolai Alexandrov

On March 11, Boris Iomdin's book New Words: Netudashka or Serdzhezmjak? will be presented in Berlin.

Freedom Letters in February: new books, translations, and meetings with authors

Evgeny Feldman on the book Dreamers Against Cosmonauts, protests, and emigration

What to read? Literary critics discuss the shortlist for season 2

March 5 in Nice: Sergey Kuznetsov's author's evening

March 3 in Nice Alexander Arkhangelsky. “Farewell, 19th Century!”

How much Minsk is there here? Review of Tatiana Zamirovskaya's book “Eurydice, check if you turned off the gas”

February 27 in Paris, presentation of Alexei Voinov's book “Winter Without Snow”

February 26 in London and online discussion on post-Soviet independence and literature

February 26 in Geneva: Lecture by Alexander Arkhangelsky, “Pushkin—The Ideologist. Defeat as Victory”

February 26: Online discussion with Elena Fanailova: “Ethical Elections in an Authoritarian Environment”

Tatyana Zamirovskaya, Candles of the Apocalypse: Emigration, Meaningless Work, and Times of Disaster

Techno of the Living and the Dead: On Ilya Danishevsky's Novel Damoklov Techno

February 20 in London: Libris with Liberov meeting, “In Search of Daniil Kharms”

Evgenia Vezhlyan on Tatiana Zamirovskaya's book “Eurydice, Check If You Turned Off the Gas”

February 17 in Vienna: presentation of new publications by Babel Publishing House

Ilya Danishevsky on the novel Damoklov Techno and resistance to violence

Alexander Morozov on Ksenia Buksha's novel Little Paradise

February 16 in Kfar Saba: a grand literary concert by Dina Rubina

Mikhail Shishkin on the program “Not Only About Books” with Nikolai Alexandrov

May 1–3 in Berlin, Bebelplatz Book Fair

February 14 in Paris: presentation of Sergei Kuznetsov's novel Moss's Meat Grinder

February 12 in Berlin: presentation of Andrei Arkhangelsky's book “The Country That Decided Not to Be”

The Dar Prize logo on book covers

February 10 in London: Mikhail Fishman and Arkady Ostrovsky. A conversation about the book The Successor.

February 6 in London Reading Group on Mikhail Lermontov's novel “A Hero of Our Time”

February 10 in Berlin: presentation of Mikhail Kaluzhsky's book “The Legend of Karagay”

February 5 in London: presentation of Masha Slonim's book “Returns: A Lighthearted Memoir”

February 11 in Belgrade, presentation of Andrei Bilzho's book “The Alphabet”

We announce the list of finalists for the second season of the independent literary prize “Dar”

Second season of the Dar Award. Shortlist announcement on January 29

January 30 in London Roman Liberov, “When Poetry Becomes Destiny.” Osip Mandelstam

January 28 in Riga, presentation of Anton Dolin's book “50 (fifty)”

On January 25 in Vancouver, a concert of poems by Dmitry Bykov from the book “Rise!”

January 22 and 24 in Belgrade and Budva: meetings with Alexander Arkhangelsky, “In Short, a Lecture”

January 22 in Berlin: presentation of an unknown military archive and photo book Olga Ignatovich: In the Shadow of Big Brother

January 23–24 in Seattle and Palo Alto Cinderella. A musical fairy tale for adults

January 20 in Paris: Pushkin: Instructions for Use. Meeting with Alexander Arkhangelsky

January 18 in Belgrade: Poetry evening with Ksenia Kirillova

January 17 in Lisbon, presentation of Olesia Gerasimenko's book “Don't Close Your Eyes”

The fifteenth season of the Nora Gal Award is now open

January 15 in Berlin: presentation of Franziska Thun-Hohenschein's book about Varlam Shalamov, Writing Life

January 14 in Berlin: presentation of Anna Winkelmann's book “The Best of All Possible Worlds”

January 23 in Prague: presentation of the book “I myself became a Russian expatriate”

January 10 in Berlin: Christmas readings by Zhenya Berezhnaya

January 8 in Berlin: Presentation of Anna Fischmann's book Day by Day

On Freedom and Literature. Evgenia Vezhlyan

Book Chronicle: Poetry Books from Israeli Publishers 2023–2024. Anna Golubkova

December 28 in London: Poetry evening with Evgeny Ostashevsky

December 21, online, lecture by Lena Kostyuchenko, “Literature of the Ongoing Catastrophe”

December 23 in Berlin: presentation of Evgenia Nekrasova's book “Kholodova Street”

December 23 in London: presentation of Boris Filanovsky's book of poetry, Second Music

December 18 in Berlin: presentation of Gleb Morev's book Joseph Brodsky: Years in the USSR. A Literary Biography

December 11 in Berlin: presentation of Dinara Rasulova's poetry collection Lostlingual

December 13 in Vienna: presentation of Ivan Chekalov's novel “Loneliness”

December 13 in Berlin: presentation of Yegana Jabbarova's new novel Terra Nullius

December 9 in Berlin: presentation of Petr Turekhin's book Landscapes of Lost Time

December 10 in Tbilisi: presentation of the novel “500 Million Seconds” by Giorgi Japaridze

On December 13, the book fair “Books.Blizko” will be held in Madrid.

On December 6, a lecture entitled “Gaito Gazdanov – Writer and Emigrant” will be held in Tbilisi.

December 4–6 in Prague: COYS’25 conference for young Slavic scholars

December 5–6 in Paris, the BazarOff book fair celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Turgenev Library

Conversation between Viktor Erofeev and Vladimir Sorokin on the author's program “Erofeev Forever”

December 4 in Berlin: presentation of Mikhail Sokolovsky's book “The Dragon's Skeleton”

December 3 in Prague: meeting with Viktor Erofeev and presentation of the novel “New Barbarism”

November 29 in Berlin: presentation of Timothy Garton Ash's book “EUROPE: The Long Road from 1945 to the Present Day”

The International Poetry Slam will kick off in Budva and Belgrade in November

Shortlist for the Prosvetitel Award: a brief overview of all nominees from Meduza

November 29 in Prague: presentation of the novel “The Shield and the Googl”

November 26 in Prague Sergey Shelin and Marina Koldobskaya. Presentation of the book “Entertaining Russia. 228 Answers”

Winners of Dmitry Zimin's “Enlightener” awards announced

November 28 in Riga: presentation of Andrei Bilzho's book “Alphabet 2022” and mini-master class

November 27 in Berlin: meeting with Olga Romanova and presentation of the book “The Bottle Game”

The rebirth of Russian literature abroad. Alexander Baunov and Georgy Urushadze. Baunovcast

November 20 in Lisbon: presentation of Sasha Skochilenko's book My Prison Trip

Yegana Jabbarova received the Hamburg Literary Prize

November 19 in Riga: an evening of readings by Yuri Olesha

November 22 in Berlin: Discussion on “Contemporary Women's* Prose in Search of Home, Language, and Empathy”

November 17 in Paris: presentation of the French translation of Riva Evstifeeva's “Boarding School Stories”

November 17 in Berlin: presentation of Sergei Kuznetsov's book Moss's Meat Grinder

November 14 in Berlin: presentation of Maria Danilova's novel “The Twenty-Sixth”

Meetings with Vladimir Sorokin in Vilnius and Riga on November 26 and 29

On November 12, Viktor Shenderovich's stand-up show “They caught a loud bird...” in Berlin

November 11: Online presentation of Alexander Arkhangelsky's book “Just Classics! An Anti-Textbook on Literature”

November 9 in Paris: Meeting with Polina Barsukova, “The Poet and Time”

November 6 in Berlin: presentation of the book “The Northern Route”

November 2: Meeting of the Babel book club in Vienna, “Emigration—is it good where we are?”

November 14 in Prague: presentation of Dmitry Petrov's book “Parents' Day”

Discussion of Lyudmila Ulitskaya's book “The Body of the Soul” at Pushkin House

Meeting with Ivan Filippov in Berlin on November 6

On November 18, a lecture on the poetics of “non-place” in Sergei Zhadan's prose will be held in New York.

November 18, Armen Zakaryan in Berlin: “30 Seconds to Renaissance: The Last Novel of the Middle Ages”

The Kulturus festival will take place in Prague from October 30 to November 28.

On November 16, Auditoria Budva will host the second charity book garage sale.

The rise of machines: a threat to peace? Artificial intelligence vs Putin 2.0. The conscience of AI. Mikhail Epstein

October 22 in Helsinki, meeting with Ivan Filippov

October 23, evening event with Linor Goralik at Idiot Books bookstore in London

Results of the application collection for the second season of the Dar Prize competition

October 15-19 Memorial at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

Tomas Venclova wins the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature 2025

October 15 in Haifa: presentation of Dmitry Petrov's book “Parents' Day”

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai.

October 10–12 in Munich: Echo Lubimovka Festival of New Drama

October 13 in Vienna, meeting with Demyan Kudryavtsev

October 24 in Porto: presentation of Sasha Skochilenko's book My Prison Trip

US book publishers honor Russian dissident house Freedom Letters

The Booker Prize 2025: shortlist announced

Interview with Mikhail Shishkin in Novaya Gazeta Europe on the recognition of the Dar Prize as a foreign agent

Shortlist announced for PolitProsvet special award

October 2 in Berlin: Meeting with Viktor Erofeev, “New Barbarism”

September 25: Online lecture by Yakov Klots on tamizdat

October 5 and November 8: Dmitry Bykov in New York. Lectures, poetry, and discussions

Two Hundred Brand New Shiny Cadillacs, the debut novel in English by New York-based prose writer Pavel Lembersky

October 5 in New York: poetry concert and presentation of Dmitry Bykov's book “The Rise”

October 3 in Riga: meeting with Olesya Gerasimenko and presentation of the book “Don't Close Your Eyes”

September 24 in New York City is the launch of Alexander Genis' new book, Ours

On September 12 in Prague, Vladimir Sorokin will present his new novel The Tale, moderated by Anton Dolin

For the opening of the second season of the Dar Prize

September 18 in Berlin big meeting with Vladimir Sorokin

On August 22, Haim Ben Yaakov's book “Suitcase, Station, Israel” will be launched in Stockholm

September 20-21, 2025 in Amsterdam for the cultural festival Vidim Fest

September 12 and 19 in London Pushkin House - Reading Club on Ivan Turgenev's novel “Fathers and Children”

Berlin International Literature Festival will take place from September 11 to 20, 2025

The Prague Book Tower Fair will be held from September 12 to 14, 2025

August 14 in Riga: Presentation of the book: “Suitcase, Train Station, Israel: On the History of Anti-Semitism in the USSR”

Booker Prize 2025: international longlist of 13 books

Results of the first season of the Dar Prize and plans for the second season

July 17–19 — Philadelphia, Washington, New York. Dmitry Bykov. Lecture “Zone and Territory”: The Strugatskys and Kuvayev 50 Years Later

On July 10, Olga Romanova's book “The Bottle Game” will be presented in Berlin.

Russia in search of the apocalypse: Mikhail Epstein on eschatology and war

Life, AI, and Evolution: A Dialogue Between Mikhail Epstein and Evgeny Kunin

The Murder of Nastasya Filippovna: Mikhail Epstein and Claude Sonet reconstruct the “missing scene” from The Idiot

The presentation of Igor Narovsky's book “Laughing Red” in Vilnius on June 29th

June 27 is the first presentation of Sasha Skochilenko's book “My Prison Trip”

On June 24, Olga Romanova will present her novel “The Bottle Game” in Prague

On June 22 in Tbilisi will be held a creative evening in memory of poet Bakhyt Kenzheev and presentation of the collection of poems "Selected. 1972-2024"

Freedom Letters has published Mikhail Krutikhin's new book The Last Days of the Shah's Iran

June 22 in Berlin - Book Day by Meduza at Kunstraum Kreuzberg

June 10 “My Pushkin” - Mikhail Shishkin and Alexey Botvinov as part of the Odessa Classics festival at Schloss Elmau

The Freedom Books Awards announces the longlist

Statement by Mikhail Shishkin, Chairman of the Jury of the Literary Prize “Dar”

Sasha Skochilenko's book My Prison Trip has been published by Freedom Letters

Freedom Letters Publishing House has published Vladimir Sorokin's new book “Skazka”

Statement by Mikhail Shishkin, President of the Jury

Statement of the winner of the contest of the first season of the Literary Prize “Dar”

Open letter from the winner of the Dar Award of the first season Maria Galina

Mikhail Shishkin - chairman of the jury of the independent Literary Prize “Dar” announced the results

Winners of the Dar Award of the first season

Pre-order Paul Lembersky's new novel Two Hundred Brand New Shiny Cadillacs

On May 18, a book auction in Prague to support students and scholars, “Manuscripts Don't Burn 2025”

On May 16 in Berlin, political analyst Sergei Shelin will present his books, "Entertaining Russia. 228 Answers“ and ”Russia After Putin and Trump"

The book “Trialogies” by Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Bakstein and Mikhail Epstein has been published by NLO Publishing House

Freedom Letters has published Alexander Genis's book “Amerika. The New World with an Accent

Olga Romanova's novel “The Bottle Game” has been released by Freedom Letters publishing house

In Chicago Journal: Dissident Russian Publisher Freedom Letters Releases J6 Satire The Insurrectionist by Russell Working

Sorin Brutus in “Novaya Gazeta. Europe” on the new Russian emigration: books by Anton Sekisov and Peter Turekhin

Supporting authors in Berlin: scholarships for literature in other languages

“Body Light” by Sergey Soloviev: new book and review of the novel ”Shakti's Smile”

Olga Balla-Gertman on Alexei Makushinsky's novel Dimitri: A Transhistorical Novel

French newspaper Le Monde talked about Ivan Filippov's novel “The Mouse”

“There is no meaningless.” About the novel “Lusha” by Karina Coqurell-Ferré - Switzerland for All

The Age of Zinc. What has Russian censorship achieved in three years? Answered by “Rhinos in the Bookstore” - Novaya Gazeta article

Dr. Clown Igor Narovsky - about laughter, pain and the power of play on the air of “And Graham Rumbled”

“ZAO": an excerpt from Svetlana Petriichuk's play about love for convicts - ‘Novaya Gazeta’ piece

An updated edition of Maria Galina's book “Near the War” has been published

Eugenia Vezhlyan: “A lot of things need to look for names again”

Speech by Mikhail Shishkin at the Berlin Bebelplatz Book Fair

May 1-2 premiere of the play “Tuaregs” by Svetlana Petriichuk in Almaty

Pack, label, cancel - literary censorship in Russia and emigration in SOTA's piece

Anatoly Bely shares Mikhail Shishkin's letter and urges support for the Dar Prize

On April 17, an online meeting with writer and literary critic Denis Beznosov will be held in the bookstore “Igra Slov” in Vladivostok

On April 19, Vilnius will host the presentation of Irina Novik's book “I am a Deserter”

April 15 in Riga Professor Andrei Zubov: lecture and presentation of the book “History of Russia XIX century. Volume 2”

Презентация литературной премии «Дар» на Берлинской книжной ярмарке Berlin Bebelplatz

From May 1 - acceptance of works for the Mark Aldanov International Literary Prize. Mark Aldanov

Sergei Savelyev's book “Troyan. The Gulag of Our Time": reading in Berlin on April 5 and publication in Novaya Gazeta

The people are worried about whether the tsar is a real tsar. Writer Mikhail Shishkin

Рецензия «2+2»: Домик няни, Кабиасы, Эйзенштейн и СПИД

Review of Riva Evstifeeva's book “Internat Stories” - Maya Kucherskaya on Pain, Truth and Hope

Mikhail Shishkin on the Dar Prize, the Russian language, and resistance to the regime.

April 4 in Berlin presentation of the Literary Prize Dar at the Berlin Book Fair - Berlin Bebelplatz

Nikolai Alexandrov's review of Sergei Shelin's book “Entertaining Russia”

Dmitry Bykov on his book “Arc”. Video

April 4 at the Bebelplatz Berlin Book Fair Presentation of Irina Novik's book “I am a Deserter”, Freedom Letters Publishing House

On April 6 at the Bebelplatz Berlin Book Fair, the presentation of Ivan Filippov's new book “Shadow” (Freedom Letters)!

Vidim Books published the book “Troyan. The Gulag of Our Time” by Sergey Saveliev

Independent Literary Prize “Dar”: “Now is the time to create a new type of culture in the Russian language”

The Impossibility of Balance: a review of Lesha Palkic's novel The Gopac Equation

A large collection of Bakhyt Kenzheev's “Selected. 1972-2024”. Bakhyt Kenzheev, Sergey Gandlevsky

Dmitry Bykov's book “VZ” has been published by Freedom Letters publishing house

Freedom Letters publishes Andrei Kostinsky's book “My Lost House”

How the Kremlin “denazified” the GDR: An excerpt from Alexander Genis's book “Fascisms,” published by The Insider

Freedom Letters has published a book by renowned journalist and political analyst Sergei Shelin, titled “Entertaining Russia. 228 Answers.”

Freedom Letters has released Ivan Filippov's new novel, The Shadow

Michael Epstein on the Dar Prize. This is the gift of Freedom

Ivan Vyrypayev on the Dar Prize for Literature. Literature is possible even in conflict with language

Freedom Letters publishes Mikhail Epstein's book “Before the End of History? The Edge of the Russian Anti-World

Maria Galina, Nikolay Kononov and Mikhail Shishkin about the Dar Prize in an interview with 3Sat

The Berlin Bebelplatz book fair will be held for the first time in Berlin from April 3 to 6

Nikolai Alexandrov: “Literature is under threat”

It was you who chose to kill. Olga Balla-Gertman's review of Ilya Danishevsky's book “Damocles Techno”

Freedom Letters Publishers has released six new paper books

On March 13 in London, writer Oleg Radzinsky and journalist Arkady Ostrovsky - Public Talk - presentation of the book “Penitential Days”

On March 13, the presentation of Linor Goralik's book “Bobo” will take place in Amsterdam

On March 6, Anna Narinskaya will present her father Anatoly Naiman's latest book, Blaha Fly, in Berlin

Igor Pomerantsev: essayism, language and memory - My First Bomb Shelter. A new word order.

Poet Georgi Borisov joined the jury of the award against Putin's regime

March 6 in Nice to meet with writer Mikhail Shishkin

On February 26 in Berlin, a meeting with Viktor Yerofeev, which will include the presentation of his acclaimed novel “The Great Gopnik”

February 28 in Yerevan meeting with poet, prose writer and literary columnist Denis Beznosov

Vidim Books has opened pre-orders for Lyosha Palkic's book The Gopac Equation

Vidim Books has started pre-orders for Dmitry Savelyev's new book “Troyan. The Gulag of Our Time”

The Sefer publishing house published Valery Genkin's book “When not Elena”

On February 20 in Podgorica, an evening dedicated to Lev Rubinstein and his unique genre of “card records”

February 17 in Tbilisi meeting with Linor Goralik

Igor Mandel's review of “Love That Moves...” by Michael Epstein, in Secret Paths Magazine

Between eros and logos. About Mikhail Epstein's book “Memory of the Body: Stories about Love”

February 27 in Basel Maria Stepanova - Questions of Time

February 17 in Paris, a conversation about the poets of the “unnoticed generation” with Roma Liberov

Alexander Morozov on the Dar Prize. New names beyond the influence of the Kremlin

Alexander Delfinov on the Dar Prize. Books to be read

How reading changes the brain: scientific findings on the impact of literature

Then & Now Podcast with Teresa Cherfas - Mikhail Shishkin on the Dar Prize for Literature

Grigory Chkhartishvili on the Dar Prize: supporting free literature

On February 24, the University of Geneva will host a meeting with writer Nikolai Kononov

“Love in Turbulence” by Dima Zitzer is Medusa Publishing's first book for parents

How to preserve Russian literature under Putin? Mikhail Shishkin on the Dar Prize and the crisis of culture

The Dar Prize: what it is and who has been shortlisted

We congratulate the shortlisted finalists for the Dar Literary Prize!

FRESH Verlag has published Mikhail Nemtsev's book “Clarity and Joy” - a collection of short philosophical essays.

FRESH Verlag publishing house published the book by Alexander Motsar “Only Cacti Survive in War. Notes from Bucha”.

Who kills children? Ilya Danishevsky - about the book “Damocles Techno”

The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature

The Temptation of Extreme Positions. Sorin Brutus talks about the successes and missteps of a book by one of the most brilliant Russian-language writers of our time, Dmitry Bykov

A new bookstore Auditoria has opened in Belgrade!

Dmitry Bykov's new book “Demon Defeated” has been published by Freedom Letters publishing house

Linor Goralik's book “Bobo” has been published by Vidim Books

Freedom Letters has published the book “Victory Will Be Ours”

Director Andrei Khrzhanovsky in Novaya Gazeta about Greg Miller's novel The Kuleshov Effect

Eduard Lukoyanov on Lev Rubinstein's new book The Secret Passage for the Gorky publication

An interview with Alexander Gavrilov, founder of Vidim Books, was published in the Novosti-26 Telegram channel

Freedom Letters publishes Sergei Shelin's book “Entertaining Russia”

The new season of Linor Goralik's podcast audiobook, The Chitka, has begun to be released

Linor Goralik's book “Bobo” is being released by Vidim Books

A new book by Lev Rubinstein, 'The Secret Move', will be released soon

Mikhail Kaluzhsky's book 'Several Stories' is being published by 'Babel' Bookstore Publishing

A haiku book by Stanislav Belsky has been published by Red Moon Press 

Freedom Letters is publishing Greg Blake Miller's novel The Kuleshov Effect

Critic Liza Birger on the novel '(Not) About the War' by Zhenya Berezhnaya

Interview with Lyubov Machina, founder of Fresh Verlag, in the Gorky magazine

Evgeniya Vezhlyan for Slova Vne Sebya on Maria Stepanova's book 'Focus'.

A new issue of the literary and art magazine “Zerkalo” has been published

“Novaya Gazeta” about Maria Makeeva's literary debut novel ”Bears Ears. Amber Man.”

The Gorky publisher and co-founder of Falanster bookstore Boris Kupriyanov wrote about Olga Morozova

Zhenya Berkowitz's book, “Pets,” has been released

A new issue of ROAR, the newsletter of anti-war and oppositional culture, has been published

Novaya Gazeta Europa published a review of Alexei Navalny's book “Patriot”

The Gorky magazine published a text in memory of Vladimir Mikushevich

Slova vne sebya Media has published an excerpt of Zhenya Bercovici's new book, “Pet”

Demagog magazine has published a review by Fedi Otroschenko of Michael Eisenberg's new book of poems, Don't Touch Us

The Gorky magazine published texts in memory of Arkady Shtypel and Shamshad Abdullayev

Freedom Letters has published Ali Haitlina's book Four Days to Spring

A new chapter of Zinovy Zinik's novel Stolen Handwriting has been published in Demagogue magazine

In an interview with Radio Prague International, Eugene Demenok talks about his new book “Leaving Can't Stay. From the Burliuk and Delaunay Family Correspondence”

Anna Narinskaya in The Moscow Times about Zhenya Berkovich's new book “Pets”

The Gorky has a review of Anton Sekisov's new book “The Resort”

Critic Lisa Birger talks about Konstantin Zarubin's novel Our Heart Beats for All

The Wiener Slawistischer Almanach published a review by Eugene Koziura of the book “Poems of Golubchik-Gostov” published by Babel Bookstore Publishing House (Tel Aviv)

“Understanding Misunderstanding.” Mikhail Edelstein about Anna Narinskaya's book “Nothing Like This” for DA MAGAZINE. 

Especially for Words Beyond Myself, Lev Oborin wrote a review of Anatoly Naiman's posthumous collection of poems

Specially for Meduza, writer and journalist Mikhail Zygar read Alexei Navalny's autobiography

Frankfurt Book Fair 2024

Freedom Letters publishes new editions of Yuli Dubov's novels

The book “Territory of Memory” by Denis Beznosov is released

The novel “(Not) About War” by Ukrainian writer Zhenya Berezhnaya is published by Meduza Publishing House

Gorky published a review of Maria Stepanova's novel “Focus”

The publishing house Vidim Books has released a limited edition of Viktor Shenderovich's book “Devyanoska”

The Vidim Books publishing house released Boris Belenkin's book “Memorial”.Taken Home”

Sasha Filipenko's Writer's Stand-Up

Books by Peter Aleshkovsky and Maria Galina have been published by Mikhail Greenberg Library Publishing House

Konstantin Zarubin's novel “Our Heart Beats for All” is published by Meduza Publishing House

Greetings from “EU Public Diplomacy - Russia”

Nasha Gazeta (Switzerland) about the Dar Prize

“We need to give literature in the Russian language a new life”. Interview with Mikhail Shishkin, Chairman of the Dar Prize Jury.

Literary Prize “Dar”

Declaration on the Establishment of the Literary Award "Dar"

Welcome Letter from PEN International

Your news about books and events

Mikhail Shishkin presents his new book "Mine. Essays on Russian Literature."

Ibicus Press is opening pre-orders for two new releases.

The collection of poems "Promise" by Dmitry Vedenyapin has been released by Éditions Tourgueneff.