Glas (publisher)

Glas was a Russian publishing house. It was established by in 1991, and was instrumental in translating the works of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Victor Pelevin, and Vladimir Sorokin and introducing them to the West.^[1]^[2]

"Glas has published 75 titles over 24 years, but, since half of them are anthologies, these volumes contain 170 different authors “representing various trends and types” of Russian literature."^[2]

Glas books twice won the Rossica Prize, and were praised by George Steiner, Isaiah Berlin^[3] and Tibor Fischer.^[4]

It suspended activity in 2014.^[2]

Reception[]

Tibor Fischer, writing in The Guardian, said:

"It is a tribute to the material in Glas 40: War and Peace that it reads almost as if no one has written about war before. Glas magazine, which launches Russian writing into the English-speaking world, has quietly championed some forgotten, some unrecognised and some new writers, and it has hit the jackpot with this collection."^[4]

Writers[]

Fiction[]

Svetlana Alexievich
Vassily Aksyonov
Peter Aleshkovsky
Maria Arbatova
Victor Astafiev
Andrei Bitov
Mikhail Bulgakov
Yuri Buida
Dmitry Bykov
Vasil Bykov

Translators[]

Robert Chandler (The Portable Platonov)^[2]

References[]

^ Interview with Natasha Perova
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Taplin, Phoebe (31 October 2014). "Glas publishing house is suspending its activity". Retrieved 2018-05-30.
^ "Glas New Russian Writing". www.glas.msk.su.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Fischer, Tibor (9 December 2006). "Review: Glas 40 - War and Peace". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-30.

[1] Interview with Natasha Perova

[rbth-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Taplin, Phoebe (31 October 2014). "Glas publishing house is suspending its activity". Retrieved 2018-05-30.

[3] "Glas New Russian Writing". www.glas.msk.su.

[guardian-fischer-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Fischer, Tibor (9 December 2006). "Review: Glas 40 - War and Peace". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-30.

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