2021
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
Alisa Ganieva
Alisa Ganieva’s Offended Sensibilities came out in Austria (Wieser Verlag, see here) in His Excellency’s Austrian ambassador in Russia Johanness Eigner.
The publisher Lojze Wieser writes in his open letter to the translator: «Yesterday Matei brought the beautiful finished book over to me at home and I started reading in bed late at night. Alissa and you are responsible that the night was brought to my sleep and that I am looking for a time window today to read on. As in the best of times with the best books! Thank you! Pažalsta!
I'm afraid it will have to be a magnum!»
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The publisher Lojze Wieser writes in his open letter to the translator: «Yesterday Matei brought the beautiful finished book over to me at home and I started reading in bed late at night. Alissa and you are responsible that the night was brought to my sleep and that I am looking for a time window today to read on. As in the best of times with the best books! Thank you! Pažalsta!
I'm afraid it will have to be a magnum!»
Read more »
Alisa Ganieva signed the joint statement of PEN Moscow, the Free Word Association and St. Petersburg club about the egregious situation in Belarus.
The Open, an Indian English language weekly magazine, dedicated an article to Alisa Ganieva and her works. “As an author dealing with the topics of multi-ethnicity, religious clashes, arranged marriages and globalisation in traditional societies, I’m thrilled to be published in Indian languages—India is not just a place where it all may be relatable, but also a centuries-old treasury of culture and book lore,” she says. Another book of hers is coming out in Hindi next year, a collection of stories titled in English as Evening Transforms into Night. <…>
An interesting thing about one of her ancestors was that he was masterful in hand-to-hand combat and had, along with others, repelled attacks from Iranians led by Nader Shah, who had wreaked havoc in Delhi in the early part of the 18th century.
Fond of martial arts, Ganieva says that such skills are not necessary anymore. The skills of the kind she possesses as an artist with words are handier for her: they make her a profound conjurer of characters and plots”.
An interesting thing about one of her ancestors was that he was masterful in hand-to-hand combat and had, along with others, repelled attacks from Iranians led by Nader Shah, who had wreaked havoc in Delhi in the early part of the 18th century.
Fond of martial arts, Ganieva says that such skills are not necessary anymore. The skills of the kind she possesses as an artist with words are handier for her: they make her a profound conjurer of characters and plots”.
Author Alisa Ganieva and several prominent journalists were arrested during peaceful and social distance abiding protests in solidarity with their arrested colleagues and for the freedom of pickets - the only allowed form of protest left in Russia. Or is it allowed anymore?
OSCE and the European Convention on Human rights strongly demanded the release of all the detainees.
OSCE and the European Convention on Human rights strongly demanded the release of all the detainees.
Alisa Ganieva took part in the Goethe-Institute's «Time to listen» project and told a story from her middle school past.
«The current situation has forced many people around the world to stay at home and follow the news. The project “Time to listen” presents a collection of stories - told by storytellers from all genres of art, from all over the world».
«The current situation has forced many people around the world to stay at home and follow the news. The project “Time to listen” presents a collection of stories - told by storytellers from all genres of art, from all over the world».
The World Literature Today journal (USA) listed Alisa Ganieva’s Bride and Groom among Russian books that should be read right now:
"A story of two young people who return home to Dagestan from Moscow to satisfy their families’ insistence that they marry. Both are forced to balance their respect for tradition with their cosmopolitan understanding of love and romance, but as much as they try, their individual stories are mere fodder for the dysfunctional social order built on systemic corruption and terror".
"A story of two young people who return home to Dagestan from Moscow to satisfy their families’ insistence that they marry. Both are forced to balance their respect for tradition with their cosmopolitan understanding of love and romance, but as much as they try, their individual stories are mere fodder for the dysfunctional social order built on systemic corruption and terror".
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