Elena Schwarz was born in 1948 in St. Petersburg, where she still lives today. She wrote her first poems at the age of thirteen. After finishing her studies at the Leningrad Institute for Drama, Music and Film in 1971, she worked as a translator, poet and essayist. She has issued
Irina Scherbakowa was born in Moscow in 1949. She is a historian, publicist and translator. Towards the end of the seventies she began her collection of audio tape interviews with victims of Stalinism, and has been doing research in the archives of the KGB since 1991. She is Professor of
Irina Prochorowa studied English Literature in Moscow. She was editor of the journal »Literaturnoe Obozrenie« and founded the independent academic journal »Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie«, of which she is chief editor, as well as the eponymous publishing house. Prokhorova regularly organises academic conventions. She was chairwoman of the Russian Booker Prize
born in 1987 in Nizhny Novgorod, is a Russian-German pianist. He completed his studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover. Since 2010, Levit has played concerts worldwide and has received numerous prizes, including the 2014 Echo Klassik. In April 2018, he returned the award in protest
Grigory A. Yavlinsky is the founder and chief whip of the Russian liberal party Yabloko. He studied Economics at the Plekhanov Moscow Institute, worked at the Academy of Sciences and in the Russian Ministry of Labour. In 1990 he was Deputy Prime Minister and one year later became President Gorbachev’s
Grigori M. Pasko worked as a military journalist for the Russian Pacific floats. After a Japanese television station broadcast his film »Highest Danger Zones«, which showed how a tanker belonging to the Russian navy disposed of radioactive waste in the Japanese Sea, Pasko was accused of high treason and spying
Grigory Oster , presented with awards many times over for his satirical, humorous texts, was born in Odessa on the Black Sea in 1947. He is considered one of the most important living Russian authors of children’s books and has written a great number of short stories, fairy tales, (puppet)
The lyric poet Gennady Aygi was born in 1934 as Gennadi Nikolayevich Lisin in Shaimursino in what today is the Chuvash Republic. He belonged to the Chuvash ethnic minority, an ethnic group distantly related to the Huns. His assumed Chuvash name means »he over there«, »the same one«. His first
Eugene Ostashevsky was born in Leningrad, in the former USSR, in 1968 and emigrated with his parents at the age of eleven to the USA. He studied Comparative Literature at Stanford University, has also studied or worked at universities in Italy, Turkey, and France and today teaches literature at New
Dmitry Glukhovsky was born in 1979 in Moscow. In 1996, he began studying journalism and international relations in Jerusalem. Afterwards, he spent three years as an editor for EuroNews in Lyon. In 2005, he returned to Russia and worked for the news channel Russia Today for three more years. As
Dmitry Golynko was born in 1969 in Leningrad, USSR. Following his studies in Art Theory and Russian Literature he graduated with a dissertation on the Russian post-avant garde at the end of the 20th century. He was guest professor for two years at Cheongju University (Slavic Department) in South Korea
