Thursday Feb 9 | Russia Beyond the Headlines
Dickensian Russia and a fiercely exotic Japan
English translations of Boris Akunin's last two novels "He-Lover of Death" and "The Diamond Chariot," were released at the end of 2011 and attracted attention RBTH's literary critic Phoebe Taplin.
Author admits to female alter ego
Boris Akunin, the Russian author of the Erast Fandorin detective series, has revealed he wrote several books under the female pseudonym Anna Borisova.
Monday Murder Mystery: The Winter Queen
Boris Akunin's prose doesn't tell you that The Winter Queen is set in 1876 Tsarist Russia, it takes you there.
From translator to novelist and activist
Grigory Chkhartishvili had a successful career as a translator before he became the famous mystery writer Boris Akunin.
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