Trafika Europe 13 - Russian Ballet

TE13-01 MIKHAIL EREMIN POEMS 4 (selections)

Mikhail Eremin (b. 1936 in the Caucasus) has lived in St. Petersburg since before World War 2 and participated in one of the first unofficial post-war groups of poets, the so-called “philological school” of the late 50s (along with Lev Losev, Vladimir Uflyand, Sergey Kulle). His books, Poems (1–7), are published by Pushkinskii Fond. He was awarded the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for poetry in 1998 and, in the fall of 2014, a residency at the American Academy in Rome by the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund. His Selected Poems is available in the English translation of J. Kates. Selections of his poems in Alex Cigale’s translation have appeared in Asymptote , National TranslationMonth , Plume , Two Lines , and Words Without Borders .

TE13-02 IGOR SAKHNOVSKY

Two stories - If You’reAlive&The SchneidermanPrinciple Igor Sakhnovsky (b. 1958 in the Ural city of Orsk) published his first novel, The Vital Needs of the Dead , in Novyi Mir , in 1999. Translated into English by Julia Kent and published in Britain by Glagoslav, it won the author a fellowship from the Hawthornden International Writers Retreat. His follow-up cycle of short stories, Fortunates and Madmen , was recognized as the best

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