Authors

Elena Tikhomirova-Madden is a writer, critic, literary scholar, member of SLOG, and since 2022, the organization's secretary. Doctor of Philological Sciences. Since 2004, she has been living

Mikhail Shleikher is a writer, poet, essayist and designer. Since 2019, he has been the co-chairman of the Commonwealth of Russian-speaking Writers of Germany (SLOG) and editor of the department

Valery Panyushkin is a writer and journalist, the author of fifteen documentary books, who worked for many years in leading media outlets from Kommersant in its heyday to

Nikolay V. Kononov – journalist, editor, writer

Anna Narinskaya is an author, curator, documentary filmmaker and activist. In Russia, she worked for the newspapers Kommersant and Novaya Gazeta as

Zhenya Berezhnaya is a Ukrainian writer, podcaster, and a PEN scholarship holder in Germany. Fairy tale traditions and folklore have always been of interest to her.

Mark Belorusets was born in 1943 in the evacuation in the Urals. He lived in Kyiv, worked as a construction engineer for over 30 years, was close to

Anna Starobinets is the "queen of Russian-language horror", writing dark fantasy thrillers and mystical dystopias for adult readers. But she spares children

Sergey Nevsky was born in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky in the theory class and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)

Alexey Munipov has been writing about music since 1996. Critic, curator, independent researcher, founder of the School of Attentive Listening (www.fermatalab.ru) and the musical society

Aglaya Asheshova, member of the Board of the Turgenev Library in Paris, head of the Russian book collection at the University Library of Languages ​​and Civilizations (Bulac), member of the association

Riva Evstifeeva was born in Moscow in 1984. She graduated from Moscow State University and worked at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In exile since 2007

Valery Bochkov is a Russian American writer whose work combines the traditions of Russian classical literature, its psychology and depth, and American

Demyan Kudryavtsev was born in Leningrad, lived in Israel from the age of 19, studied philology at the Jerusalem University, was co-editor of the first Russian

Maxim Goryunov was born in Uman, graduated from the philosophy department of Moscow State University. He taught at the Higher School of Economics, published as an essayist and publicist. In 2018–2022

Igor Eidman was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) in 1968 in the family of a famous physicist. After graduating from the history department

Sergei Medvedev is a historian, writer, and publicist. Professor at Charles University in Prague. Author of the books "Park of the Crimean Period", The Return of the Russian Leviathan, A War Made in

Philip Dzyadko, writer, philologist, creator of educational projects dedicated to history and culture, employee of Zukunft Memorial.

Sergei Bondarenko, historian, employee of the Memorial society. Co-author of the book Spartak: One for All and the podcasts People Die for Spartak and Tonkaya

Orlov Oleg Petrovich was born on April 4, 1953, lived in Moscow. Biologist by education, human rights activist, one of the founders of the Memorial society, was a member

Born in 1981 in Moscow. Worked as a geologist and journalist. Writes prose exploring the traumas and blank spots of the Soviet past through the prism of family history.

Yulia Podlubnova was born in 1980 in Sverdlovsk. Poet, literary historian, literary critic. Graduated from the Philological Faculty of the Ural State University, candidate of philological sciences.

Daria Ma is a multilingual poet, performer, feminist, amateur musician and dreamer. In 2021, she became one of the winners of Russian Poetry Slam Europe.

Boris Iomdin is a linguist and author of dictionaries. Until 2022, he worked alternately in Moscow and Israel. He is engaged in scientific research and teaches at

Maxim D. Shrayer is a writer, philologist, historian of the Shoah, translator, and author of thirty books in English and Russian, including “Bunin

Evgeny Ermolin is a critic, literary scholar, and cultural historian. He taught at Russian universities and worked in the editorial offices of magazines and newspapers. Columnist for Aussiedlerbote.de (Berlin) since 2021. Professor

Grigory Arosev is a writer, journalist, and author of seven books, including two biographies. He is a finalist for the 2020 Big Book and

Ivan Vyrypaev is a playwright, screenwriter, director, actor and art director of Russian origin, a citizen of Poland. Since 2014, he has lived and worked in

Evgeny Feldman is a journalist and photographer. He grew up in Moscow and graduated from the psychology department of Moscow State University. He began taking photographs professionally in 2009: he was

Yakov Klotz teaches Russian and comparative literature at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). He has written books and articles on

Anya Getman is a writer and blogger originally from Omsk. A graduate of the scriptwriting workshop of the St. Petersburg School of New Cinema. She runs a popular writer's blog

Maxim Osipov is a writer and doctor, born in 1963 in Moscow. He has been writing and publishing since 2007. He is the author of six

Alya Khaitlina has been living in Germany since 2012. She is a philologist by education and a specialist in speech development in bilingual children by profession.

Journalist, translator, LGBT activist. Born in Novosibirsk, studied Slavic studies at the University of Hamburg. Works for the German editorial office of BILD. Author of several