A classic of Russian literature of the second half of the 87th century, Fazil Iskander died in Moscow at the age of XNUMX. He wrote “Sandro from Chegem”, “Chick’s Childhood”, “Rabbits and Boas”, “Thinking of Russia and an American” and many other works, reports the BBC. Funeral of Fazil Iskander...
On June 27, 2016, Dennis Cooper opened a browser, entered the address of his blog, which has been hosting Blogspot for 14 years, and saw that the blog in which he had stored the results of his work and creativity since 2002 had been deleted by Google without ...
Vatutinki. Russia. Vladimir Voinovich, one of the most famous dissident writers who was expelled from the USSR in 1980 (and deprived of citizenship from 1981 to the 90s), lived mainly in Germany and the United States. Then he returned to Russia. Now he lives in a dacha near Moscow ...
Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Her name is familiar to most Russian-speaking readers around the world and has become synonymous with amazing, amazing and honest books that are unmatched. Her works have long been included in the category of those that in no case should be missed. Her sincere ...
The Washington Post has declassified documents obtained from the FBI, which say that American intelligence services have been tracking the world famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for 20 years. According to the newspaper, the surveillance of the Nobel Prize winner in literature has begun ...
One of the most famous British authors of spy novels, Frederick Forsyth, admitted that he was an agent of the British foreign intelligence service Mi-20 for more than 6 years. The author of “The Day of the Jackal” (1971) and “Dogs of War” (1974) spoke about this in his autobiographical book The Outsider: My...
On Long Island, in the Great Neck area, there is a house for sale in which the writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald lived in the early 1920s. The price is 3 million 888 thousand 888 dollars, writes The Wall Street Journal. The house was built in 1918 in a Mediterranean style. In him…
The archive of the world famous writers of the Strugatsky brothers was taken from Donetsk to Russia and is currently located in Rostov. Vladislav Rusanov, deputy chairman of the Union of Writers of the self-proclaimed DPR, announced this on Saturday. “On the night of May 15-16, the archive crossed...
What: author's reading by Gary Shteyngart, author of the bestsellers "Absurdistan" and "Super Sad True Love Story" When: Thursday, April 23 at 19:00 More: American writer of Russian origin, real name Igor Shteyngart, will give an author's reading at George Washington University. Stengart's cultural background includes Soviet childhood and experience...