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Glagoslav Publications

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Independent British-Dutch publisher bringing the literature of the Slavic world and beyond to readers in English and Dutch. From contemporary fiction and poetry to works recovered from the past, we look for titles that ought to be read more widely.

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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sixteen stories exploring loneliness, memory, and human connection. Discover Robinson, the award-winning collection by Armenian author Aram Pachyan. glagoslav.com/shop/robinso...
Aram Pachyan - Robinson
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lviv in books: a literary walk through the City of Lions. glagoslav.com/articles/lvi... #Lviv #Glagoslav
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alexander Korotko's STUS, a poem about Vasyl Stus, read in Kyiv in Ukrainian, English and Polish. t.co/J5jLfp2pLT #VasylStus #STUS #glagoslav #AlexanderKorotko
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar shaped the Ukrainian literary language. The first complete English translation was done by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist who brought diplomatic precision and personal devotion to every line. Illustrated edition. Order at glagoslav.com #Kobzar #Shevchenko
Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Chernobyl. April 26, 1986. Firefighters arrived first. No protective gear. No warning. 40 years on – the full story is still being told. glagoslav.com #Chernobyl40
Chernobyl. April 26, 1986.
Firefighters arrived first. No protective gear. No warning.
40 years on – the full story is still being told. glagoslav.com #Chernobyl40
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
He refused to recant. He died in the camp. Read the poem. Five languages. One refusal. Available now at glagoslav.com/shop/stus-a-... #UkrainianPoetry #VasylStus #GlagoslavPublications #WorldLiterature
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Reymont won the Nobel for The Peasants. His supernatural novel The Vampire – London, Paris, 1911 – is out now in English for the first time, via Glagoslav Publications. Just featured on Culture.pl's 2026 Polish books list. glagoslav.com #PolishLiterature #TranslatedFiction #GothicFiction
Reymont won the Nobel for The Peasants. His supernatural novel The Vampire – London, Paris, 1911 – is out now in English for the first time, via Glagoslav Publications.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Literature doesn't simplify – it restores nuance. In times when public discourse gets sharper and more polarised, a book offers a different rhythm. Read more: glagoslav.com/from-the-publisher/ #WorldLiterature #BooksInTranslation #SlavicLiterature #LiteraryTranslation #Publishing #TranslatedBooks
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
645 sonnets. Five cantos. Sláva's Daughter by Jan Kollár is one of the great works of European Romantic poetry. Now in full English translation by Charles S. Kraszewski for the first time. Available unabridged and annotated at glagoslav.com #SlavasDaughter #JanKollar #Glagoslav #SlovakLiterature
Sláva's Daughter by Jan Kollár
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A Communist president. A state-sponsored funk band. A naive true-believer who ends up a dissident without ever changing his mind. Fu(n)k Bomb by Karel Veselý (tr. Charles S. Kraszewski) is Czech absurdism at its sharpest. Prague, 1989. Funky Leninz are about to change everything. >>> glagoslav.com
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
- twisted, abstract, and dark fairytales for a modern age, all of which centre womanhood in all of its facets.​" oc-media.org/review-the-d... Order the book here: glagoslav.com/shop/the-doo... #TranslatedBooks #Armenianliterature #Armenia #WorldLiterature #WomenInTranslation #darkfairytale
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Review | The Door Was Open: Short Stories — unveiling the dark side of Armenian womanhood
Karine Khodikyan’s uncanny and inscrutable short stories focus on lust, love, and death, and all the dysfunction that lies between.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The Door Was Open​ by Karine Khodikyan reviewed: "Karine Khodikyan’s uncanny and inscrutable #shortstories focus on lust, love, and death, and all the dysfunction that lies between. The eponymous short story opening Khodikyan’s collection lays the foundation for what is to come —
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
www.complete-review.com/reviews/ukra... #Reading #TranslatedBooks #Ukrainianliterature #Ukrainianfiction #Ukrainianbooks #WorldLiterature #books #translation #bookaddict #fictionInTranslation #Boryslav #workingclass #classstruggle #humanrights #labourmovement
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Boryslav in Flames - Ivan Franko
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Boryslav in Flames by Ivan Franko.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
the best parts of the novel are when he focuses on the #socialissues, and especially the treatment of workers in these circumstances (with much wealth being created, while famine and other conditions force those without capital to seek work in these new industries)."
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Boryslav in Flames reviewed: It is "a quite exciting tale of #fairness and #injustice, and of the tension between the interests of workers and of capitalist-owners. [...] All that Franko packs in does make Boryslav in Flames more entertaining than the usual 'social' novel [...];
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"This is especially valuable given the general dearth of Azerbaijani literature in English." oc-media.org/review-solar... #Azerbaijaniliterature #BooksInEnglish #Reading #TranslatedBooks #RustamIbragimbekov #Baku #Azerbaijan #SovietUnion
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Review | Solar Plexus: A Baku Saga in Four Parts
Famed Azerbaijani screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov’s 1996 novel captures the story of Soviet Baku across multiple generations.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Reviewed: Solar Plexus "works as an interesting exploration of Baku life in the Soviet period, giving readers a strong understanding of a variety of perspectives operating at that time, and influencing the period that followed."
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
​https://russianlife.com/the-russia-file/a-modern-fairy-tale/ #Ukrainianliterature #Ukrainianbooks #WorldLiterature #translation #fictionInTranslation​ #WomenInTranslation #Italy​ #CupraMarittima #ItalianSeaside #AdriaticCoast ​#Shakespeare #comedy #murdermystery #revenge #forgiveness
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"The cast of characters include the big family of generous restaurant owners, a depraved rich developer and his entitled son, a boxing coach with Parkinson’s [...] Amid the over-the-top romantic drama, featuring murder, rape, incest, revenge and forgiveness, there is also, a la Shakespeare, comedy."
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Masquerade by Mikhail Lermontov | Glagoslav Publications
This new translation of Masquerade brings out all the searing tensions and dangerous actions of the society of that time.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We are delighted to announce the publication of #MikhailLermontov’s Masquerade. This new translation brings out all the searing tensions and dangerous actions of the society which Lermontov depicts, and conveys the performative perils which threaten the innocent when life is seen as a masquerade.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"The obvious must be stated - no translation of Norwid can match the original. It is impossible to climb to such heights as Norwid achieved. However, a translator can forge a path to those peaks. Kraszewski has undoubtedly done this. His translations read just as if walking a safe path." #Poland
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Reviewed: "Readers who are unfamiliar with Polish but speak English have received a wonderful gift and an excellent research tool - a volume of #CyprianNorwid’s Dramatic Works translated by Charles Kraszewski." glagoslav.com/shop/dramati... #WorldLiterature #SlavicAuthors #drama #Polishliterature
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Dramatic Works | Glagoslav Publications
‘Perhaps some day I’ll disappear forever,’ muses the master-builder Psymmachus in Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s Cleopatra and Caesar,...
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Charles S. Kraszewski’s skillful translation enhances the semantic value of the volume. The English-speaking reader should benefit from his elegant translation." glagoslav.com/shop/poems-a... #WorldLiterature #SlavicAuthors #Polishliterature #Poland #meaningoflife #globalism #mentalhealth
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Poems about my Psychiatrist | Glagoslav Publications
"The world’s really not the way it is," says the eponymous Psychiatrist in Andrzej Kotański’s wildly popular Poems about my Psychiatrist
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Poems about My Psychiatrist by Andrzej Kotański is reviewed by The Polish Review: "The poet creates a universal depiction of cosmopolitan societies in the era of globalization in which life’s meaning is difficult to find. [...]
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Poems about my Psychiatrist | Glagoslav Publications
"The world’s really not the way it is," says the eponymous Psychiatrist in Andrzej Kotański’s wildly popular Poems about my Psychiatrist
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
[…] Both Kraszewski’s translation and introduction are valuable texts.” glagoslav.com/shop/the-rev... #BooksInEnglish #Reading #TranslatedBooks #WorldLiterature #bookaddict #books #SlavicAuthors #Polishliterature #Poland
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The Revolt of the Animals | Glagoslav Publications
Władysław Reymont was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award...
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The Revolt of the Animals by #WładysławReymont reviewed by The Polish Review: “Translator Charles Kraszewski has skillfully brought this complicated and unusual tale into English, giving Anglophone readers access to a work of Polish speculative fiction they wouldn’t otherwise have.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Before nations, before identity, there were two brothers with an alphabet. Cyril and Methodius sparked a revolution – not with arms, but with language. Read the untold story: glagoslav.com/articles/cyr... #CyrilAndMethodius #Slavic #History #Glagoslav #Alphabet #Literature #CulturalIdentity #Books
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Cyril and Methodius – The Literary Pioneers | Glagoslav Publications
Explore the transformative legacy of Cyril and Methodius, the literary pioneers who shaped early Slavic culture. Discover their contributions to literacy, the creation of the Glagolitic alphabet, and ...
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Chernobyl’s story burns on in the pages of literature. These works don’t just remember – they reckon. Read how science, tragedy, and resilience intersect, and why the lessons matter now more than ever. glagoslav.com/articles/che... #Chernobyl #Literature #Ukraine #Resilience #Glagoslav #Booksky
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Chernobyl in Literature | Glagoslav Publications
Explore the extended literary narratives inspired by the Chernobyl disaster. Discover themes of human memory, ecological impact, socio-political critique, and resilience—with notable works including T...
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
How writers used folklore and botanical knowledge to preserve identity when empires tried to erase it. Where science sees specimens, Ukrainian literature sees survival. glagoslav.com/articles/fol... #UkrainianLiterature #Ethnobotany #Folklore
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Folklore and Ethnobotany in Ukrainian Literature: Bridging Myth and Science
Explore how folklore and ethnobotany in Ukrainian literature bridge myth and science, preserving cultural heritage and identity for future generations.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The taiga knows his name. Mebet. The Gods' Favorite. Grigorenko writes of the Nenets hunter who lived without fear until the gods came to collect. A dark journey where the living meet the dead and a man learns what his luck has cost. #Mebet #ArcticLiterature #IndigenousStories #Nenets #Translation
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Mebet by Alexander Grigorenko / Book Trailer
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Three men move through post-Soviet ruins. No work. No future. Cold vodka. Zhadan's "Depeche Mode" cuts clean to the bone. Ukraine without the tourist photos. Just truth - hard, necessary, and final. The kind of book that stays with you like a scar. #Zhadan #UkrainianLit #PostSoviet
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Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan / Book Trailer
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tarkovsky made films that burned with truth. Boyadzhieva's book "A Life on the Cross" captures his struggle without wasted sentiment. For those who respect the work of seeing clearly, this book matters. #Tarkovsky #FilmTruth #SovietCinema #Stalker #BookRecommendation #ReadingList
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Thank you, Richard. Your words gave this book its new voice, its second life. No cover, no matter how striking, could ever capture what you've accomplished between those pages. That's the real art. The rest is just packaging for the truth you've delivered.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The old Dover editions were honest. Plain. True. But a man can admire simplicity while another builds something new. In the end, we're all just trying to keep good words alive. Some with fancy covers, some without. The words inside - that's the real fight worth having.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
But tell me – what covers speak to you? Which publishers do it right? I want to see them. We learn, we build, we keep going. Always. Thanks!
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Every sponsor we get? It goes straight to the translators. They’re the ones making these books live in another language. Criticism is easy. Making books is hard. We do it anyway.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Glad you care. We do too. We’re the only ones bringing these books into the world, and we do it on our own dime. No backing. No safety net. Just work. You think it’s all AI? It’s not. Most of these covers were drawn by hand. Before, we couldn’t even afford that.
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Glagoslav Publications @glagoslav.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"Boryslav in Flames" by Ivan Franko, translated by Yuri Tkacz. 🔗 Available on Glagoslav.com. #BoryslavInFlames #IvanFranko #HistoricalNovel #LaborMovement #SocialistIdeals #UkrainianLiterature #ClassicReads #Bookstagram #ReadersOfInstagram #BookLovers #HistoricalFiction #RevolutionaryReads
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