Glagoslav Publications Press Releases & News (Page 2)

Glagoslav Has Published a Photo Book on the 90s Moscow in Transition

Summary: Robert Stephenson’s book focuses on Moscow following the collapse of the USSR and provides a unique pictorial view of daily life in Russia’s capital city during the turbulent early years of transition to market capitalism. Original photographs and supporting narrative by the... - April 02, 2019

Glagoslav’s New Historical Novel is About Spies, Counterintelligence Services, War Crimes and Love

Summary: Postwar Nuremberg is set to host a historically unprecedented trial of the leaders of the defeated Third Reich. The whole world is awaiting a just verdict, but it is here where Soviet counterintelligence must wage a secret war against forces that seek to prevent that from happening at any... - March 30, 2019

Glagoslav’s New Book Offers Biographical Sketches of Twelve of the Most Prominent Russian Advocates of the Rule of Law Who Changed Russian Law, State, and Society

Summary: Pavel Krasheninnikov’s book "The 12 Apostles of Law" first saw publication in Russia in 2016 and is dedicated to the great legal minds who, through their scholarship and legislative activity, changed Russia’s law, government, and society over two centuries. For over... - February 01, 2019

The Novel Little Zinnobers by Elena Chizhova Has Now Been Brought to English Readers by Glagoslav Publications

Summary: Little Zinnobers is especially fascinating for British readers as we see Shakespeare’s famous sonnets and plays touchingly brought to life by the Russian children and their gifted teacher, the novel’s heroine. The teacher applies some of the playwright’s satire to the... - January 13, 2019

A Collection of Plays by the Polish Playwright Zygmunt Krasiński to be Published by Glagoslav

Summary: “God hath denied me that angelic measure / Without which no man sees in me the poet,” writes Zygmunt Krasiński in one of his most recognisable lyrics. Yet while it may be true that his lyric output cannot rival in quality the verses of the other two great Polish Romantics,... - December 09, 2018

A New Instalment in Glagoslav’s List of Polish Literature, a Collection of Plays by the Polish Playwright Juliusz Słowacki, to be Published

Summary: The crypt of Wawel Cathedral in Kraków is the Polish nation’s greatest pantheon. Here lie the earthly remains of its storied kings and queens, and two of its greatest poets, Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki. At the conclusion of his speech at Słowacki’s... - December 03, 2018

An English Translation of a Black-Listed Writer in Turkmenistan to be Published by Glagoslav

Summary: Moscow, during the collapse of the Soviet system: In a hospital, young people awaiting heart operations and possible death, live just for today with mischief-making and even love affairs, under the stringent gaze of the old matron, Baba Nastya. Here one of the patients, a young Turkmen,... - November 03, 2018

A New Instalment, Combustions by Srđan Srdić, in the Serbian Collection to be Published by Glagoslav

Summary: Srđan Srdić’s collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author’s position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region. This book consists of nine stories in which the author brings the reader face to face with the seamy side of... - October 12, 2018

A New Instalment in Glagoslav’s List of Polish Literature, a Collection of Sonnets by the Polish Poet Adam Mickiewicz to be Published

Summary: Because the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz is so closely identified with the history of the Polish nation, one often reads him as an institution, rather than a real person. In the Crimean and Erotic Sonnets of the national bard, we are presented with the fresh, real, and striking poetry of a... - October 03, 2018

What Connects Wagner, Kgb, and the Flying Dutchman in the Novel by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Published for the First Time in English Translation; Look for the Clues

Summary: Some time in the 1970s, Konstantin Alpheyev, a well-known Russian musicologist, finds himself in trouble with the KGB, the Russian secret police, after the death of his girlfriend, for which one of their officers may have been responsible. He has to flee from the city and to go into... - September 05, 2018

Flippant and Scathing Works by the Ukrainian Feuilletonist Ostap Vyshnia Have Joined Glagoslav’s Portfolio in the English Translation

Summary: A brilliant satirist, Ostap Vyshnia (1889-1956) sent up the shortcomings of Soviet life and bureaucracy in the 1920s. He was famous in Ukraine almost exclusively for his feuilletons, and achieved enormous popularity in this genre in the 1920s, especially among the peasant population. - September 05, 2018

Be the First to Enjoy Glagoslav's New Book "Nikolai Gumilev’s Africa" with Almost 60 Pages of Photos from Gumilev's Africa Expeditions

Summary: Gumilev holds a unique position in the history of Russian poetry as a result of his profound involvement with Africa. He extensively wrote both poetry and prose on the culture of the continent in general and on Ethiopia (Abyssinia, as it was called in Gumilev’s time) in particular. - September 05, 2018

A Brown Man in Russia Describes the Fantastical Travels of a Young, Colored American Traveler as He Backpacks Across Russia in the Middle of Winter via the Trans-Siberian

Summary: A Brown Man in Russia is a hybrid between the curmudgeonly travelogues of Paul Theroux and the philosophical works of Robert Pirsig. Styled in the vein of Hofstadter, the author lays out a series of absurd, but true stories followed by a deeper rumination on what they mean and why they... - May 12, 2018

An English Translation of a Black-Listed Writer in Turkmenistan to be Published by Glagoslav

Summary: This book features people from one of the most closed countries of today's world, where the passage of time resembles the passage of a caravan through the waterless desert. This world has been recreated by a true-born son of that mysterious country, a Turkmen who, at the will of fate, has... - April 25, 2018

Glagoslav Published a Mysterious Quest for "Seven Signs of the Lion" Set in Lviv, the Main Cultural Centre of Ukraine

Summary: The novel Seven Signs of the Lion is a magical journey to the city of Lviv in Western Ukraine. Part magical realism, part travelogue, part adventure novel, and part love story, it is a fragmented, hybrid work about a mysterious and mythical place. The hero of the novel Nicholas Bilanchuk... - April 03, 2018

English Translation of Jan Balaban’s Prose to be Published by Glagoslav

Summary: A young boy from the housing estates comes across a copse of old oaks to which he can escape, as to an oasis of calm. Although he may forget about it once he becomes an adult and “puts aside the things of childhood,” it will remain a locus of balance, decades later, for a... - February 27, 2018

A Bilingual Edition of Contemporary Russian Short Poems to be Published by Glagoslav

Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this bilingual anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. - January 18, 2018

New Non-Fiction Book on Russian and Ukrainian Cuisine Joined Glagoslav’s Publishing Portfolio

Adventures in the Slavic Kitchen: A Book of Essays with Recipes is a cultural study of the role food plays in the formation and expression of a nation’s character. It focuses primarily on the Russian and Ukrainian kitchens but discusses them in the context of international food practices. - December 19, 2017

A New Instalment in Glagoslav’s Collection of Ukrainian Literature Was Published

A collection of poems on religious themes written in 1932 and 1933, The Grand Harmony is a subtle and supple examination of Antonych’s intimately personal journey to faith, with all its revelatory verities as well as self-questioning and doubt. - December 15, 2017

Jaroslav Hašek’s Short Stories Are to be Published in English by Glagoslav

Summary: Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) is known by readers around the world as the author of The Good Soldier Švejk, one of the greatest comic novels of all time. Not all of his fans are aware of his six year anabasis in Russia, however, which began with his capture on the front lines of... - December 13, 2017

Glagoslav Published Its First Book by a Kazakh Author Into English, Galymkair Mutanov’s "The Shining Light"

Summary: Poetry has always been in the Kazakh blood, and Galym Mutanov is one of the newly independent nation’s leading poets, a shining light in the Kazakh literary world. In the range of his poetry, Mutanov truly captures the essence of the Kazakh spirit – from the tough and ageless... - December 12, 2017

Glagoslav Publications Releases a Book of Poetry by the Ukrainian Poet Maksym Rylsky in the Ukrainian Collection

Summary: Maksym Rylsky is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the the 20th century and master of the genres of the modern sonnet and the long narrative poem. He was closely associated with the Neoclassicist group of Ukrainian poets, who employed traditional poetic forms with rhyme and... - December 12, 2017

Glagoslav Releases English Translation of Poetry by Oles Ilchenko

An avid reader of English-language poets such as William Carlos Williams and Stanley Kunitz, Ilchenko is one of the best Ukrainian poets writing in free verse today. His poetry is associative, flitting, and fragmentary. At times he does not form complete sentences in his poems and links words... - December 01, 2017

English Translation of Attyla Mohylny’s Poetry Contours of the City Published by Glagoslav

Contours of the City arguably comprises one of the finest collections of free verse ever written in Ukrainian even though it was largely overlooked when it first appeared during the political transition to Ukrainian independence in 1991. It certainly deserves a broader audience both in... - November 30, 2017

English Translation of 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets Published by Glagoslav

Summary: This anthology reflects a search of the Ukrainian nation for its identity, the roots of which lie deep inside Ukrainian-language poetry. Some of the included poets are well-known locally and internationally; among them are Serhiy Zhadan, Halyna Kruk, Ostap Slyvynsky, Marianna Kijanowska,... - November 28, 2017

Glagoslav Publications Publishes the Fourth Polish Bard

English translation of Stanislaw Wyspianski's plays Acropolis centred on the legendary Wawel Hill in Krakow published by Glagoslav. - November 26, 2017

The Novel Goodbye, Bird by the Armenian Author Aram Pachyan is a New Armenian Book in Translation Into English in Glagoslav’s Publishing Portfolio

Summary: For a twenty-eight-year-old young man who returned from the army several years ago but has yet to reacclimatize to ordinary life, every step, gesture, word, and vision is a revelation, which takes him back to the beginning, to a time when reality had lost its shape, and turned into a new... - March 24, 2017

Glagoslav Publications is to Release One of the Most Brilliant Works by Sergei Kapitsa, Paradoxes of Growth

Summary: In this book, the famous Russian scientist, Sergei Kapitsa, explains complicated theories in an uncomplicated manner that is easily accessible to readers with no specialist knowledge. The author focuses on the processes taking place inside the global demographic revolution and on the... - March 16, 2017

English Translation of Anatoly Kurchatkin’s Novel "Tsunami" About Perestroika and the Turbulent 1990s Published by Glagoslav Publications

Summary: Anatoly Kurchatkin’s novel, set in Russia and Thailand, ranges in time from the Brezhnev years of political stagnation, when Soviet values seemed set to endure for eternity, through Gorbachev’s Perestroika and the following tumultuous and disorientating decades. Under the... - March 01, 2017

A New Collection of Poems by One the Greatest Ukrainian Poets of the Twentieth Century Pavlo Tychyna Published by Glagoslav Publications

With his innovative poetics, deep spirituality and creative word play, Tychyna deserves a place among the pantheon of his European contemporaries such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Osip Mandelstam. His early collections such as Clarinets of the Sun (1918)... - February 10, 2017

The Novel "Girls, be Good" by a Serbian Author, Bojan Babić, is to be the First Serbian Book in Translation Into English in Glagoslav’s Publishing Portfolio

Summary: "Girls, be good" is an omnibus novel that consists of twenty short stories connected by a single framing narrative: just after the fall of the Berlin wall, foreign investors feel good about the investment climate in Eastern Europe and decide to open a huge toy factory in... - December 09, 2016

An Extraordinary Debut from a Russian Author Who Writes in English is Soon to be Released

"One-Two" is a psychological drama, the main events of which unfold in the 1980s and 1990s in Russia. The novel reflects on how difficult it is to be a human and how important it is to stay human until the end. - November 24, 2016

This Month Will See the First Installment in Glagoslav’s Collection of Polish Literature, a Poetic Drama by the Polish Poet Adam Mickiewicz

The present translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve is the first complete verse translation of the cycle published in English. It has been put to use in its entirety by the Teatr Polski in Wrocław, and partially set to music by Arturas Bumšteinas in his contemporary orchestral work Different Trains (2014). - November 10, 2016

A Book of Poetry by the Ukrainian Poet and Philosopher Hryhory Skovoroda to be Released

August will see a new instalment in Glagoslav’s collection of Ukranian literature, a book of poetry by the Ukrainian poet and philosopher Hryhory Skovoroda. - September 01, 2016

Glagoslav Publications is Releasing a Book of Selected Poems by Russia’s Famous Poetess Lydia Grigorieva

“It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva,” writes eminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her own distinctive and beguiling body of... - July 30, 2016

The Complete Correspondence of Hryhory Skovoroda: Philosopher and Poet to be released

This month sees the release of a new installment in Glagoslav Publications’ Ukrainian Collection, a book containing the complete correspondence of Hryhory Skovoroda, the "Ukrainian Socrates" and one of the great Ukrainian thinkers. - July 07, 2016

Glagoslav Publications is Releasing an English Translation of a Short Novel by a Turkmen Writer in Exile

Ak Welsapar is still a proscribed writer in Turkmenistan and his name has been in the list of black-listed writers since 1990. - July 03, 2016

Glagoslav Publications Releases a Novel About Moscow, the Capital of Russia

Summary: "Moscow in the 1930s: A Novel from the Archives" reveals Moscow as it was in a bygone age, a city now found only on old maps, but an era that continues to haunt us today. The novel features a wide cast of characters, who are all tied together by the author herself. The reader... - May 08, 2016

The Crime of Chernobyl: It is Time to Realise Its Aftermath

To commemorate 30 years since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, Glagoslav Publications is releasing one of the most comprehensive factual accounts ever written of the accident and its aftermath. - April 09, 2016

First-Ever English Uncensored Translation from Belarusian of Vasil Bykau’s Alpine Ballad is Released

This month sees the release of a new instalment in Glagoslav’s Belarusian collection, first-ever English uncensored translation from Belarusian of Vasil Bykau’s Alpine Ballad. - March 22, 2016

Glagoslav Publications Releases an English Translation of Marina Tsvetaeva’s Poetry

A tragic figure in Russian literature, Marina Tsvetaeva ranks alongside her distinguished contemporaries Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak as one of the greats of Russian verse. - February 20, 2016

Glagoslav Publications Releases an Extravagant Debut Book "Prisoner" by Anna Nemzer

A handful of families, several generations, more than a few wars. Moscow, Kabul, Barcelona. Anna Nemzer announces herself on the literary scene boldly and loudly with this debut novel about the insane, unspeakable nature of war, about human fears, treachery, lies, fateful coincidences and destinies during warfare, when there is no room left for love. - February 17, 2016

Glagoslav Publications Releases an Intriguing Novel "Multiple Personalities" by Tatyana Shcherbina

Summary: Having spent years in a coma, a female protagonist is anxious to lead a normal life. Her miraculous recovery is riddled with falling in and out of our time continuum - she wanders through history in her imagination as if it were her backyard. Notwithstanding her condition, her peers are... - February 16, 2016

Glagoslav Publications Releases a Literary Whodunit "The Investigator" by Margarita Khemlin

A young woman is murdered in a typical Soviet town. In the spirit of the era everyone is a suspect. The investigator of the title sets out to solve the crime. - February 14, 2016

Glagoslav Publications Releases an Award-Winning Biography Leo Tolstoy: "Flight from Paradise" by Pavel Basinsky

Over a hundred years ago, something truly outrageous occurred at Yasnaya Polyana. Count Leo Tolstoy, a famous author aged eighty-two at the time, took off, destination unknown. Since then, the circumstances surrounding the writer’s whereabouts during his final days and his eventual death have given rise to many myths and legends. - February 11, 2016

Glagoslav Publications Releases One of the Most Brilliant Works About Taras Shevchenko by Zinaida Tulub

Title: "The Exile" Author: Zinaida Tulub Publisher: Glagoslav Publications Language: English ISBN: 9781784379612 Extent: 444 pages Format: paperback, hardback, e-book The idea of writing about Taras Shevchenko first occurred to her when she was in her thirties, during a period spent... - February 10, 2016

Glagoslav Publications is Proud to Present a Very Special Title: Maria Rybakova’s "Gnedich," a Novel-in-Verse with Gothic Elements, Translated Into English by Elena Dimov

An award-winning writer and professional linguist, Maria Rybakova has excelled at converting the rich history of Russia and her love of classical languages into a work of fiction. - January 24, 2016