Trout Fur is the latest novel by the famous Swiss writer Paul Nizon. His hero Stolp, a slacker and an eccentric, has just inherited an apartment in Paris, bu...

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) is one of the most famous and widely read German writers of the 20th century, a representative of the “lost generation”. His...

Joseph O'Connor is one of the most popular contemporary Irish writers. His novel Cowboys and Indians was nominated for a Whitbread Award. The hero of the nov...

On Thursday, January 20, 2005, elections began. Helen Lardal Bentley took the presidential oath of office as the 44th President of the United States and Amer...

The sixteenth novel in the series about the antique dealer and amateur detective Johan Human, published in the almanac "Scandinavia. Literary Panorama", issu...

The master of Norwegian prose, Roy Jacobsen, having tried many professions, made his debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories. Since then, juggling t...

The series of stories by the remarkable American children's writer Lyman Frank Baum is invariably included in the reading circle of many generations of young...

Ronald Knox is an English religious figure, translator and writer, author of detective stories.

The renovation of a country house, bought by the author for a family vacation in nature, becomes the plot outline for a beautifully written essay about natur...

German writer from the GDR Christa Wolf, winner of many literary awards, including the German Book Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize, is known to Russian reade...

The novel by the famous Swedish writer is written from the perspective of a terminally ill man who knows that his days are numbered. The book is filled with ...