Felix Rosiner (b. 1936) is a writer, art critic and music historian. In the early 60s he appeared as a poet, and a little later he began to write prose. The first works were distributed in samizdat. F. Rosiner is the author of twenty books. Published in Russia since 1990. His new novel “Running Achilles,” published in this book, received the St. Petersburg Northern Palmyra Prize for the best work of prose in 1994.