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Boris Dralyuk
Boris Dralyuk (born in 1982) is a Ukrainian-American writer, editor and translator. He obtained his high school degree from Fairfax High School and his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. He has taught Russian literature at his alma mater and at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His writings have appeared in numerous outlets such as ''Times Literary Supplement'', ''New Yorker'', ''New York Review of Books'', ''London Review of Books'', ''Paris Review'', ''Granta'', ''World Literature Today'', etc. He is chief editor of the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' and the managing editor of ''Cardinal Points.'' A specialist in the history of noir fiction, he has written introductions to the reissued works of Raoul Whitfield. In 2022, Dralyuk published his debut poetry collection ''My Hollywood and Other Poems'' with Paul Dry Books. It was reviewed positively by Anahid Neressian in ''The New York Review of Books'', who remarked that an "air of upbeat sorrow permeate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noir Fiction
Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a subgenre of crime fiction. Definition In its modern form, noir has come to denote a marked darkness in theme and subject matter, generally featuring a disturbing mixture of sex and violence and death in some cases. While related to and frequently confused with hardboiled detective fiction—due to the regular adaptation of hardboiled detective stories in the film noir style—the two are not the same. Both regularly take place against a backdrop of systemic and institutional corruption. However, noir (French for "black") fiction is centred on protagonists that are either victims, suspects, or perpetrators—often self-destructive. A typical protagonist of noir fiction is forced to deal with a corrupt legal, political or other system, through which the protagonist is either victimized and/or has to victimize others, leading to a lose-lose situation. Otto Penzler argues that the traditional hardboiled detective story and noir story are "dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Ozerov
Lev Ozerov (russian: Лев Адольфович Озеров) (August 10/23, 1914 – March 18, 1996) was a Russian-Jewish poet, translator and essayist born in Kiev. Ozerov was the professor of Literary Translation at the Literary Institute until his death. He was one of the first Jewish authors who wrote poems about Babi Yar along with Liudmila Titova and Leonid Pervomayskiy. He visited that place of martyrology of Ukrainian Jews in Kiev immediately after the liberation. His famous epic "Babi Yar" first appeared in the '' Октябрь'' (''October'') ( ru) magazine March–April 1946 issue.Original in Russian by Lev Ozerov (''Oktyabr'' 3/4, 1946: pp. 160-163): "Фашисты и полицаи Стоят у каждого дома, у каждого палисада. Назад повернуть — не думай" ''From the following stanza:'' "Фашист ударил лопатой упрямо. Земля стала мокрой," (Maxim D. Shrayer, 2010.) Ozerov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odessa Stories
''Odessa Stories'' (russian: Одесские рассказы, Odesskiye rasskazy), also known as ''Tales of Odessa'', is a collection of four short stories by Isaac Babel, set in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution. Published individually in Soviet magazines between 1921 and 1924 and collected into a book in 1931, they deal primarily with a group of Jewish thugs that live in Moldavanka, a ghetto of Odessa. Their leader is Benya Krik, known as the King, and loosely based on the historical figure Mishka Yaponchik. In 1926, Babel adapted parts of the first two stories and additional content as a screenplay, ''Benya Krik'', directed by and released in 1927, as well as the play ''Sunset'', which premiered in October 1927. Stories The four stories originally included in the 1931 collection are: * The King (Король) (1921) * How It Was Done in Odessa (Как это делалось в Одессе) (1923) * The Father (Отец) (1924) * Lyu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children's books. The London-based company was founded in 1997 and is notable for publishing authors such as Stefan Zweig, Marcel Aymé, Antal Szerb, Paul Morand and Yasushi Inoue, as well as award-winning contemporary writers, including Andrés Neuman, Edith Pearlman, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Eka Kurniawan and Ryu Murakami. History Pushkin Press was founded in 1997 by Melissa Ulfane whose ambition was to bring literature in translation to the UK. Pushkin Press is notable for rediscovering less known European classics of the twentieth century and is largely responsible for reigniting worldwide interest into authors such as Stefan Zweig and Antal Szerb. In 2012, Pushkin Press was bought by Adam Freudenheim, then Penguin Classics publisher, and Stephanie Seegmuller, a former Penguin senior business development manager. Seegmuller left Pushkin in March 2015. In 2013, Pushkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Cavalry
''Red Cavalry'' or ''Konarmiya'' (russian: Конармия) is a collection of short stories by Russian author Isaac Babel about the 1st Cavalry Army. The stories take place during the Polish–Soviet War and are based on Babel's diary, which he maintained when he was a journalist assigned to the Semyon Budyonny's First Cavalry Army. First published in the 1920s, the book was one of the Russian people's first literary exposures to the dark, bitter reality of the war. During the 1920s, writers of fiction (like Babel) were given a relatively good degree of freedom compared to the mass censorship and totalitarianism that would follow Joseph Stalin's ascent to power, and certain levels of criticism could even be published. But his works would be withdrawn from sale after 1933 and would not return to bookshelves until after Stalin's death twenty years later. On the advice of Maxim Gorky, the young Babel, his literary career only beginning, set off to join the Soviet Red Cavalry as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Babel
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, p=ˈbabʲɪlʲ; – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of ''Red Cavalry'' and ''Odessa Stories'', and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry." Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940. Early years Isaac Babel was born in the Moldavanka section of Odessa, Russia, to Jewish parents, Manus and Feyga Babel. Soon after his birth, the Babel family moved to the port city of Nikolaev. They later returned to live in a more fashionable part of Odesa in 1906. Babel used Moldavanka as the setting for ''Odessa Stories'' and the play ''Sunset''. Although Babel's short stories present his family as "destitute and muddle-headed", they were relatively well-off. According to his autobiographical statements, Babel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Woolf
Oleg Woolf (1954-2011) was a Moldavian-Soviet writer. He trained as a physicist and went on several geophysical expeditions in the former USSR. He was married to Irina Mashinski; together they founded the bilingual press Stosvet and its journal ''Cardinal Points''. As a writer, Woolf wrote short stories, essays, and poetry, and he was regularly published in literary journals and anthologies. His books include: * (''We Will See Sosnov in Spring'') (New York: Stosvet Press, 2010) * (''Bessarabian Stamps'') (New Your: Stosvet Press, 2009), translated into English by Boris Dralyuk Boris Dralyuk (born in 1982) is a Ukrainian-American writer, editor and translator. He obtained his high school degree from Fairfax High School and his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. He has taught Russian literature at his a ... Woolf died in the US in 2011. References Moldovan writers 1954 births 2011 deaths {{Improve categories, date=July 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BOA Editions, Ltd
Kwon Bo-ah (; born November 5, 1986), known professionally as BoA, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer and actress. One of the most successful and influential Korean entertainers, she has been dubbed the " Queen of K-pop." Born and raised in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, BoA was discovered by SM Entertainment talent agents when she accompanied her older brother, a music video director, to a talent search in 1998. She was trained for two years and made her debut in August 2000. BoA has released twenty studio albums, including ten in Korean, nine in Japanese, and one in English. On television, she appeared as a judge on the reality competition show ''K-pop Star'' (2011–2013), as an actress on the television drama ''Listen to Love'' (2016), as a host for the second season of ''Produce 101'' (2017), and as a coach for the third season of ''The Voice of Korea'' (2020). BoA's ability to sing in Japanese, English and Mandarin has helped her find commercial s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariusz Sośnicki
Dariusz Sośnicki is a Polish poet. He was born in 1969 in Kalisz, and studied philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University. From 1994 to 1996, he edited the literary journal "Nowy Nurt" (New Current). In 2001 he attended the University of Iowa on a writer's grant. He has published numerous books and his work has been translated into English and Romanian, among other languages. He has also translated the work of WH Auden into Polish. Works * ''Marlewo'', posł. Marcin Świetlicki, Pracownia, Ostrołęka 1994 * ''Ikarus'', Pomona, Wrocław 1998 * ''Mężczyzna w dominie'' rkusz Centrum Sztuki – Teatr Dramatyczny, Legnica 1999 * ''Symetria'', Biuro Literackie Port Legnica, Legnica 2002 * ''Skandynawskie lato'', Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2005 * ''Folia na wietrze. Wiersze z tomów'' Marlewo ''i'' Ikarus, Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2007 * P''aństwo P.'', Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2009 * ''O rzeczach i ludziach. Wiersze zebrane 1991-2010'', Biuro Literackie, Wrocław 2011 * ''Spó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville House Publishing
Melville House Publishing is an American independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 and is run by the husband-and-wife team of Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company is named after the author Herman Melville. It has a reputation as an "activist press" and publisher of left-leaning books. History The company was founded by husband-and-wife team of Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians. Johnson wrote a blog called "MobyLives" and after the 9/11 attacks collected poetry related to the event and published it as a book to great success, which launched the company. They intended Melville to be a low volume boutique that specializes in poetry and "highly literary" novels issuing less than six a year. The company has a reputation as a "activist press" and became known for works of "political reportage with a leftist streak". Johnson once said they formed the company with the notion of "getting Bush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Barskova
Polina Barskova (born 1976) is a Russian poet. She was born in Leningrad (today St. Petersburg). Although her biological father is the distinguished poet Evgeny Rein, she was raised by her adoptive father, the scholar Yuri Barskov, and bears his last name. She started publishing her work at the age of nine, and her first book appeared when she was still a teenager, At the age of 20, she left Russia to pursue a PhD at UC Berkeley. She taught Russian literature at Hampshire College, and is now a professor at U.C. Berkeley. She has published several volumes of poetry, and she has been nominated for the Debut Prize and the Andrei Bely Prize in her native Russia. Her selected poems have appeared in English translation under the title ''The Zoo in Winter''. Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as ''The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry'', co-edited by Ilya Kaminsky Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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