Milena Michiko Flašar was born in 1980, the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. She lives in Vienna. I Called Him Necktie won the 2012 Austrian Alpha Literature Prize.
“Not since Alexander Solzhenitsyn has Russia had a writer as obsessed as Sergei Lebedev with that country’s history or the traces it has left on the collective consciousness … rich in textures, colors, sounds, and visual details, wonderfully rendered into English by Antonina W. Bouis … Lebedev is arguably the best of Russia’s younger generation of writers.”
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The New York Review of Books
Milena Michiko Flašar
