Christmas is coming and I decided to post here two Christmas scenes (set in Heidelberg, Germany) from my romantic comedy, Mr Right and Mr Wrong.
It’s dark when we reach the market square where the fair is taking place. Trish has already taken hundreds of pictures on her phone.… Read the rest
In 2012 an unlikely book exploded bestseller charts in Russia, easily outselling its close competitors. It is a collection of stories about life of the Russian Orthodox Church called Everyday Saints and other stories. In some of these, the author, Arkhimandrit Tikhon, described his path of becoming a clergyman and his early life in the Pskov-Pechora monastery.… Read the rest
The Winners of 2014 ReadRussia Translation Prize (photo credit: Russian Institute of Translation)
War tears nations apart and it takes more than long negotiations and ultimate truce to mend broken peace, – magic glue, perhaps. Literature like any other form of art can be this mending glue.… Read the rest
I’ve been telling everyone for months before releases of Frozen and Guardians of the Galaxy that they’re going to become box office hits.
Okay, we can deconstruct their success now and say that these stories are well produced, have the right character arcs, story structure, plot progression, amazing attention to detail, but one thing I’ve spotted in them that makes spectators absolutely crazy about these flicks is the weird funny character.… Read the rest
Admit it, you’ve run out of books to read this summer. You wander in your local bookshop and suddenly thousands of great and supposedly must read novels look at you. But how to choose what you’ll read next?
You turn to top 10, 20, 100 lists to select your next literary companion.… Read the rest
the ocean is full of known and undiscovered viruses
VIRUS (Latin) – POISON
‘Virus’ is one of the most negative words. When we hear it we think about a computer virus or an agent causing a disease. AIDS and HIV, hepatitis and HBV,HCV,HDV,etc.… Read the rest
The ReadRussia stand at the London Book Fair 2014
Last week I visited London Book Fair and helped running the Russian stand called ReadRussia. This year Moscow was a guest city at the fair, and a big part of the exhibition at the stand were books about Moscow.… Read the rest