Presentation of the book Portrait of an Unknown Girl by Aleksandr Skorobogatov
Antwerp, De Groene Waterman, 22 May 2015. With Irwan Droog, Werner Trio and Stefan Blommaert. Photos by my personal hero Johan Depoortere. Thanks a lot!
Belgian-based Russian writer Aleksandr Skorobogatov
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Antwerp, De Groene Waterman, 22 May 2015. With Irwan Droog, Werner Trio and Stefan Blommaert. Photos by my personal hero Johan Depoortere. Thanks a lot!
The first review on a new book always feels special. And here it is, just a couple of days after the release of ‘Portrait of an Unknown Girl’ in The Netherlands and Belgium, ran...
Today is the day when my new novel in Dutch translation — ‘Portrait of an Unknown Girl’ (‘Portret van een onbekend meisje’, Cossee Publishers, Amsterdam) — has been sent to the printer. The book...
Although my first book in translation was published back in 1992, Frankfurt – 2014 became my first Frankfurt Book Fair, where my novel (Portrait of an Unknown Girl, Cossee Publishers, 2015) was set to...
PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN GIRL is a captivating and tragic story about a secret teenage love, unfolding against the background of oppressed Belarus in the final decades of Soviet rule. Evoking the provocative yet...
I am delighted to announce that the Dutch translation of my novel PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN GIRL will be published by a top Netherlands’ publishing house ‘COSSEE’, publisher of amongst others my favourite contemporary...
PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN GIRL is a sensual, captivating and tragic story about a secret teenage love, unfolding against the gloomy background of oppressed Belarus in the final decades of Soviet rule. Told from the perspective of Sasha, thirteen at the beginning of the story and eighteen at its tragic end, Aleksandr Skorobogatov’s gripping novel takes the reader on an unsettling emotional rollercoaster ride.