Tamizdat Project

“Alphabet Soup: The Translingual Sayings of Emma and Eva as Recorded by Their Father” by Eugene Ostashevsky is the June Book of the Month at Pushkin House!

This fall, we are publishing the English translation of “My Prison Trip” by Sasha Skochilenko — a Russian artist and musician sentenced to seven years in prison for leaving five anti-war price tags at a St. Petersburg supermarket in 2022, and released in the landmark prisoner exchange of August 2024. Translated into English by Jessica Kaner.

Help us bring this title to life — your donations will help us cover the costs of translation, editing, designing, and printing.

More excerpts from the book — in our Newsletter. Read via the link in stories!

Support Tamizdat Project to continue our work this summer. Link in bio!

Three presentations of Tomas Venclova’s «Peizažas su Polifemu” / “Пейзаж с Полифемом» in Vilnius! Join Venclova and Tamizdat Project founder Yasha Klots to celebrate the release of the first book in our poetry series.

May 28: Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, Room 115a, 6 pm.

May 29: Reforum Space Vilnius, Užupio g. 14, 6 pm.

May 30: Book Club “Dialogues”. Trimitų g. 6-39. 4 pm.

See you soon in beautiful Vilnius!

You can find the book at these bookstores:

New York: in our Book Corner at White Rabbit’s Books

Berlin: Babel

Vilnius: The Bookest World .bookest.world

Stockholm: Interbok

Or you can also order the book online from our store.

How did Akhmatova’s «Requiem» come to be published in Munich in 1963 — without the author’s knowledge, from burned scraps of paper, through diplomatic pouch, and smuggled copies?

This fall, we plan to publish Akhmatova’s ‘Requiem’: A View from Abroad — a bilingual Russian-English edition that tells the story of the first publication and reception of «Requiem» abroad through letters, diaries, reviews, and memoirs. The book will also include a new English translation of Akhmatova’s ’Requiem’!

Help us bring this title to life — your donations will help us cover the costs of translation, editing, designing, and printing.

More excerpts — in our Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/2b4f4088ceab/press-release-manuscripts-dont-burn-fundraising-campaign-and-charity-book-auction-to-support-students-affected-by-war-or-persecution-6752851

Support Tamizdat Project to continue our work this summer: https://tamizdatproject.betterworld.org/campaigns/support-tamizdat-project

Sneak preview: previously unpublished letters by Viktor Shklovsky to Elsa Triolet! Welcome to the series of posts where we share excerpts from books we plan to publish this Fall. You can support us in bringing these titles to life — by helping us cover the costs of editing, translating, designing, and promoting these titles.

In the first preview — archival love letters by Viktor Shklovsky to Elsa Triolet, written between 1922 and 1970, during his exile in Berlin, and later from Moscow, spanning nearly fifty years. Previously unpublished, these letters later inspired Shklovsky’s celebrated novel “Zoo, or Letters Not about Love” (1923), and include his drawings.

More letters and expanded previews — in our Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/bcfffc132e61/press-release-manuscripts-dont-burn-fundraising-campaign-and-charity-book-auction-to-support-students-affected-by-war-or-persecution-6752801

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We are raising funds to continue our work throughout summer. Tamizdat Project Library is one example of how your donations will directly contribute to our mission as a public scholarship and philanthropic organization for the study of banned books from the Cold War to the present.

Thank you for every contribution, however large or small: https://tamizdatproject.betterworld.org/campaigns/support-tamizdat-project

Three days into our crowdfunding campaign! We’re grateful to everyone who has donated any amount and helped us get the word out. Swipe through to see what gifts you can receive for your donations!

Donation link is in bio and stories. Thank you for every contribution, however large or small.

Berlin friends! Tomorrow we’re launching “Alphabet Soup” by Eugene Ostashevsky in the city where most of it was written! Join us at Babel Books Berlin Berlin on May 21, at 19:00 — the author himself and Tamizdat Project founder Yasha Klots will be present.

Free and open to the public. Register here: https://fienta.com/de/book-launch-eugene-ostashevsky-alphabet-soup-the-translingual-sayings-of-emma-and-eva-as-recorded-by-their-father

📍Babel Berlin
Bernauer Str. 49, 10435

⏱️ May 21, 19:00