Boris Smirnov holds an MA from the University of Illinois Chicago and translates from German and Spanish as well as from his native Russian. He has translated fourteen novels across a variety of genres, numerous short stories, and a handful of screenplays. He is also the English translator for DOSh, a human rights magazine dedicated to the North Caucasus region.
Photos by Daniel Lincoln and Debby Hudson / UnsplashThe Georgian Sketchbook is both a poet’s diary and a chronicle of a Russian war exile in Georgia. Irina Lewinsky, an executive member of the Saint P…