Avrom Sutzkever אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער

Avrom Sutzkever  (1913–2010)

Born in Smorgon (in modern day Belarus) Sutzkever was arguable the greatest Yiddish poet of the 20th century. During the first world war his family fled to Siberia where Sutzkever spent his early childhood...

Aksel Bakunts Ակսել Բակունց

Aksel Bakunts (1899 - 1937) was an Armenian writer, screenwriter, translator and activist. Born in Goris, he spent time in prison as a teenager for writing a satire mocking the mayor of Goris.

 Following the Bolshevik revolution, Russi...

With the launch of Sprachbund (our journal of literature in translation) fast approaching, we figured it was time to get this blog started and take the opportunity to introduce the authors and translators whose stories will be featured in issue 1.

  Our firs...