Linor Goralik – författare

One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and an interview, here translated for the first time. In Found Life, speech, condensed to the extreme, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik's works evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres-slight doubt, subtle sadness, vague unease-through accumulation of unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices, her works are marked by a distinct voice, simultaneously slightly naive and deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry, Goralik's colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of absurdity and depths of grief.

One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and an interview, here translated for the first time. In Found Life, speech, condensed to the extreme, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik's works evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres-slight doubt, subtle sadness, vague unease-through accumulation of unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices, her works are marked by a distinct voice, simultaneously slightly naive and deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry, Goralik's colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of absurdity and depths of grief.

Under sovjettidens statliga antisemitism var det i stort sett omöjligt att skriva om specifikt judiska erfarenheter. När perestrojkan avskaffade censuren dök memoarer och manuskript upp ur skrivbordslådorna och texter som cirkulerat i hemlighet kunde äntligen tryckas. Här presenterar Kristina Rotkirch ett urval texter, främst noveller, med tragik och humor, ilska och insikt, fördomar och förlåtelse. Några noveller är skrivna av rysk-judiska immi­granter i Israel och USA och alla är nya för svenskspråkiga läsare.

Drygt ett år sedan Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina släpper Glänta ett 168-sidigt nummer som enbart består av översatta texter från den ryska webbtidskriften Colta (vars hemsida är blockerad i Ryssland). Numret har gjorts i nära samarbete med författaren Maria Stepanova som är chefredaktör för Colta. I numret medverkar ryska författare som Sergej Lebedev, Daria Serenko, Linor Goralik, Anna Narinskaja och Maksim Trudoliubov, i översättning av bland andra Nils Håkanson, Kajsa Öberg Lindsten, Johan Öberg, Tora Lane och Mikael Nydahl.