The 5th Wave: Russian Writers in Exile (magazine launch)
Channel: De Balie
Date: 2023-06-16

Russian writers can no longer publish their work in Russia. Therefore, in cooperation with fugitive Russian writer Maxim Osipov, publisher Van Oorschot launches the magazine Fifth Wave, a platform for independent Russian literature. The contributions (prose, poetry and essayism) come from literary authors from Russia and abroad, all united by their rejection of war and totalitarianism.

Fifth Wave will be published four times a year in Russian. A selection will appear twice a year in English. The first issue – in both Russian and English – will be published per June.

Editing will be under the direction of Maxim Osipov, who previously published the short story collections The World Is Unbreakable and Kilometre 101 with great success. He fled to Amsterdam after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Van Oorschot has a close relationship with Russian literature and has supported Russian dissidents in the past. Fifth Wave keeps readers informed about independent Russian literature and Russian exile writers.

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