Anne condemns the Russian Federation’s ongoing war of aggression on Ukraine. Fisher’s recent translations include Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s “The Poetics of Titles,” published in Countries That Don’t Exist (Columbia UP, 2022) and Ksenia Buksha’s essay “The Russia That Was,” published on the Pushkin House blog in May 2022. Fisher’s translation of Ukraine, Love, War: A Donetsk Diary, written by Ukrainian writer, journalist, and historian Olena Stiazhkina about Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, is forthcoming in 2023 from the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature: https://books.huri.harvard.edu/books/ukraine-war-love
Ksenia is the author of fifteen books of poetry and fiction, including the 2014 National Bestseller Prize-winning novel The Freedom Factory. Other literary awards include Città di Penne-Mosca Prize 2014 (Italy), the Big Book award shortlist (2014 for The Freedom Factory and 2020 for Churov and Churbanov), and the NOS shortlist in 2019 for Opens Inward. She is the youngest writer ever to have been shortlisted for Russia’s Big Book prize, and one of only two writers—and the only woman—ever to be shortlisted for the Big Book twice before the age of forty.
Arthur Bondar is a photographer, publisher, and collector. He has published seven books, including Signatures of War, Valery Faminsky V. 1945, and Barricade: The Euromaidan Revolt. His projects have been widely exhibited in museums and art institutions worldwide and his works have been published in The Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian (including his photograph of President Zelenskyy on the front page), Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, and De Volkskrant.
