Thoughts from Alisa Ganieva

Olga Slavnikova and the “Debut generation” arrived in the United States early this week. This is my second trip this year. Last time, the young Russian writers were greeted with enormous interest in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. The situation is a bit more complex now – in the beginning of June we’ll have(more)

Welcome to the Debut Prize for New Russian Literature

Debut showcases Russian prose by a new generation. The authors never lived in the Soviet Union — or were very young when the USSR collapsed. They are new people, and entirely new writers. They are free of the Soviet legacy in all senses. They have no nostalgia and do not resonate to the sort of(more)