Lizok's Bookshelf

The Yasnaya Polyana Award announced its 2020 winners yesterday at an in-person ceremony in Moscow. I watched chunks of it (two and a half ho...

Happy New Year! С Новым годом ! Wherever you are, whenever you read this, I hope the holidays have been enjoyable and I wish you lots of...

I’d been planning to write a light, easy post today but I’m writing instead about the death of writer Oleg Pavlov. He died this Moscow afte...

Last week the Yasnaya Polyana Award named finalists for 2012 prizes. The finalists are: For the “XXI Century” award, which RIA-Novosti...

There’s more award news this week: for one thing, Oleg Pavlov won the Solzhenitsyn Prize , an annual prize that carries an award of $25,000....

Oleg Pavlov ’s writing seems to drive me to contradictory reactions: even when I don’t enjoy his books, I can’t put them down. And then, upo...

The Russian Booker Prize has a new general sponsor, Российская корпорация средств связи , known as Russian Telecom Equipment Company in Eng...

As has become my not-so-good habit, I’ve been hoarding news… 1. Marina Palei won the Russian Prize ( Русская премия ) recently for her no...

Six finalists for Yasnaya Polyana’s “21 st Century” award were announced on September 9, Lev Tolstoy’s birthday. The books sound like a v...

Oleg Pavlov’s Асистолия (sorry, Blogger won ’ t let me simply italicize Cyrillic today...) ( Asystole , colloquially “flatline”) is a tough...