READING LIST
WLT's Post-Soviet Reading List
Discover new authors to read from Armenia to Uzbekistan in WLT's post-Soviet reading list. Links to read or purchase each book are provided.
Armenia • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Estonia • Georgia • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Latvia • Lithuania • Moldova • Russia • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Ukraine • Uzbekistan
Armenia
Violet Grigoryan and Vahan Ishkhanyan
Deviation: Anthology of Contemporary Armenian Literature
(Inknagir Grakan Akumb, 2008)
Armand Inezian
Bringing Ararat
(Last Light Studio, 2010)
Azerbaijan
Sabir Ahmadli
"A Voice from the Sea”
(WLT, June 1996 issue)
Gioulzar Akhmedova
Magnolia
(Unicont Enterprises Int., 2011)
Amir Pahlavan
Issa, Miriem, and Sana
(ANIVUS, 2008)
Belarus
Artur Klinov
“The Sun City of Dreams”
(Mischief & Mayhem, 2010)
www.mischiefandmayhembooks.com
Valzhyna Mort
Factory of Tears
(Copper Canyon Press, 2008)
Theodore Odrach
Wave of Terror
(Academy Chicago Publishers, 2008)
Estonia
Jaan Kaplinski
Evening Brings Everything Back
(Bloodaxe Books, 2004)
Sofi Oksanen
Purge
(Grove Press, 2010)
Toomas Vint
“Beyond the Window a Park Is Dimming”
Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive, 2011)
Georgia
One More Year
(Spiegel & Grau, 2008)
Zurab Lezhawa
“Sex for Fridge”
Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive, 2011)
Aka Morchiladze
Santa Esperanza
(Pendo Verlag, 2006)
Kazakhstan
Christopher Robbins
Apples Are from Kazakhstan
(Atlas & Co., 2008)
Rollan Seisenbayev
The Day the World Collapsed
(Alma-Alta, 1991)
Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
(Stacey International Publishers, 2006)
www.stacey-international.co.uk
Kyrgyzstan
Chinghiz Aimatov
Jamili
(Telegram Books, 2008)
Bektash Shamshiev
“Post-Socialist Kyrgyz Literature: Crisis or Renaissance?”
(WLT, June 1996 issue)
Latvia
Inga Abele
“Ants and Bumblebees”
Best European Fiction 2010 (Dalkey Archive, 2010)
David Bezmozgis
The Free World
(Viking Press, 2011)
Agate Nesaule
A Woman in Amber
(Penguin, 1996)
Lithuania
Marcelijus Martinaitis
K.B. the Suspect
(White Pine Press, 2009)
Tomas Venclova
Forms of Hope
(Sheep Meadow Press, 2002)
Tomas Venclova
The Junction: Selected Poems
(Bloodaxe Books, 2009)
Moldova
Iulian Ciocan
“Auntie Frosea”
Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive, 2011)
Ion Drutse
Moldavian Autumn
(University Press of the Pacific, 2001)
Russia
Alina Bronsky
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
(Europa 2011)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Apricot Jam
(Counterpoint, 2011)
Vladimir Sorokin
Day of the Oprichnik
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011)
Tajikistan
Akbar Golrang
Parpin Flowers
(Publish America, 2004)
Farzaneh Khojandi
Poems
(Enitharmon Press, 2008)
Andrey Volos
Hurramabad
(Ivan R. Dee, 2011)
Turkmenistan
Atamurad Atabaev
“Depth”
(WLT, June 1996 issue)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40042088
Khudayberdy Durdyev
“Toward a New Maturity”
(WLT, June 1996 issue)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40042080
John W. Kropf
Unknown Sands
(Dusty Spark Publishing, 2006)
Ukraine
Yuri Andrukhovych
Recreations
(Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Study Press, 1998)
Andrey Kurkov
The President’s Last Love
(Knopf Doubleday, 2009)
Oksana Zabuzhko
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
(AmazonCrossing, 2011)
Uzbekistan
Hamid Ismailov
The Railway
(Random House UK, 2007)
Vladimir Makanin
Escape Hatch
(Ardis Publishers, 1996)
Olga Slavnikova
2017
(Overlook Press, 2010)
November 2011
In this issue of WLT, a special section devoted to Post-Soviet Literature features recent work from Russia and other former republics, twenty years after the collapse of the regime.
Table of Contents
COVER FEATURE
Post-Soviet Literature: Twenty Years
After the Fall
- INTRO: "Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Russian and East European Literature Today," Emily D. Johnson
- ESSAY: "Censorship in Russia: Old and New Faces," Nadezhda Azhgikhina
- ESSAY: "Poetry in the Cloud: An Experiment, Results, and n+1 Hypotheses," Kevin M. F. Platt
- Poetry by Igor Belov, Semyon Khanin, Artur Punte, Feodor Swarovski, Sergej Timofejev, Viktor Ivaniv, and Ksenia Shcherbinio
- FICTION: "Petrov and Markov," Oleg Woolf
- ESSAY: "Re-Visioning the Past: Russian Literary Classics in Film," Catharine Nepomnyashchy
- POETRY: "The Rock or, A Third Anecdote about Wallace Stevens," Grigory Kruzhkov
- EXCERPT: The Button, Iren Rozdobudko
READING LIST: WLT's post-Soviet reading list- New! VIDEO: Multimedia poetry from Orbita 4
SPECIAL SECTION
Zoran Živković
- "Zoran Živković: A Biographical Sketch," Michael Morrison
- "Rendezvous in Front of the House," Zoran Živković
- "The Metaphysical Fantasias of Zoran Živković," Michael Morrison
- FICTION: "The Teashop," Zoran Živković
- INTERVIEW: "Fantastika and the Literature of Serbia: A Conversation with Zoran Živković," Michael A. Morrison
- A Bibliography of the Works of Zoran Živković
INTERVIEWS
- "My Life as Cinema: A Conversation with Samuel Shimon," Kaitlin Hawkins
- "Literary Cairo, A Conversation with Samia Mehrez," Michelle Johnson
ESSAYS
FICTION
- "The Demon of Hunger," Tania Malyarchuk
- "Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction," Mario Bellatin
POETRY
- Three Poems by Askold Bazhanov
- Two Poems, Alistair Noon
IN EVERY ISSUE
- LETTERS/EDITOR'S CHOICE
- BOOK CLUB: An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
- AUTHOR PROFILE: Zoe Whittall
- WHAT TO READ NOW: Zimbabwe
- CITY PROFILE: Yerevan, Armenia
- INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: Meet "Bo from Ro": Building Romanian Crime Writing, J. Madison Davis
- OUTPOST: Los Angeles
