WLT's Post-Soviet Reading List
Discover new authors to read from Armenia to Uzbekistan in WLT's post-Soviet reading list. Links to read or purchase each book are provided.
Armenia • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Estonia • Georgia • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Latvia • Lithuania • Moldova • Russia • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Ukraine • Uzbekistan
Armenia
Violet Grigoryan and Vahan Ishkhanyan
Deviation: Anthology of Contemporary Armenian Literature
(Inknagir Grakan Akumb, 2008)
Armand Inezian
Bringing Ararat
(Last Light Studio, 2010)
Azerbaijan
Sabir Ahmadli
"A Voice from the Sea”
(WLT, June 1996 issue)
Gioulzar Akhmedova
Magnolia
(Unicont Enterprises Int., 2011)
Amir Pahlavan
Issa, Miriem, and Sana
(ANIVUS, 2008)
Belarus
Artur Klinov
“The Sun City of Dreams”
(Mischief & Mayhem, 2010)
www.mischiefandmayhembooks.com
Valzhyna Mort
Factory of Tears
(Copper Canyon Press, 2008)
Theodore Odrach
Wave of Terror
(Academy Chicago Publishers, 2008)
Estonia
Jaan Kaplinski
Evening Brings Everything Back
(Bloodaxe Books, 2004)
Sofi Oksanen
Purge
(Grove Press, 2010)
Toomas Vint
“Beyond the Window a Park Is Dimming”
Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive, 2011)
Georgia
One More Year
(Spiegel & Grau, 2008)
Zurab Lezhawa
“Sex for Fridge”
Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive, 2011)
Aka Morchiladze
Santa Esperanza
(Pendo Verlag, 2006)
Kazakhstan
Christopher Robbins
Apples Are from Kazakhstan
(Atlas & Co., 2008)
Rollan Seisenbayev
The Day the World Collapsed
(Alma-Alta, 1991)
Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
(Stacey International Publishers, 2006)
www.stacey-international.co.uk
Kyrgyzstan
Chinghiz Aimatov
Jamili
(Telegram Books, 2008)
Bektash Shamshiev
“Post-Socialist Kyrgyz Literature: Crisis or Renaissance?”
(WLT, June 1996 issue)
Latvia
Inga Abele
“Ants and Bumblebees”
Best European Fiction 2010 (Dalkey Archive, 2010)
David Bezmozgis
The Free World
(Viking Press, 2011)
Agate Nesaule
A Woman in Amber
(Penguin, 1996)
Lithuania
Marcelijus Martinaitis
K.B. the Suspect
(White Pine Press, 2009)
Tomas Venclova
Forms of Hope
(Sheep Meadow Press, 2002)
Tomas Venclova
The Junction: Selected Poems
(Bloodaxe Books, 2009)
Moldova
Iulian Ciocan
“Auntie Frosea”
Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive, 2011)
Ion Drutse
Moldavian Autumn
(University Press of the Pacific, 2001)
Russia
Alina Bronsky
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
(Europa 2011)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Apricot Jam
(Counterpoint, 2011)
Vladimir Sorokin
Day of the Oprichnik
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011)
Tajikistan
Akbar Golrang
Parpin Flowers
(Publish America, 2004)
Farzaneh Khojandi
Poems
(Enitharmon Press, 2008)
Andrey Volos
Hurramabad
(Ivan R. Dee, 2011)
Turkmenistan
Atamurad Atabaev
“Depth”
(WLT, June 1996 issue)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40042088
Khudayberdy Durdyev
“Toward a New Maturity”
(WLT, June 1996 issue)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40042080
John W. Kropf
Unknown Sands
(Dusty Spark Publishing, 2006)
Ukraine
Yuri Andrukhovych
Recreations
(Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Study Press, 1998)
Andrey Kurkov
The President’s Last Love
(Knopf Doubleday, 2009)
Oksana Zabuzhko
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
(AmazonCrossing, 2011)
Uzbekistan
Hamid Ismailov
The Railway
(Random House UK, 2007)
Vladimir Makanin
Escape Hatch
(Ardis Publishers, 1996)
Olga Slavnikova
