Yuri Nagibin (b. 1920) published his first short story in 1940 while he was still a student at the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. In June 1941, Nagibin volunteered for active duty and was posted to the front lines as a war correspondent for the Trud (Labour) newspaper.

The range of Nagibin’s themes is exceptionally broad: he has written about the war, dramatic aspects of contemporary life, childhood and children, hunting and nature, and much else. More than 50 collections of Nagibin’s stories have been published to date, with an aggregate of over 20 million copies sold. Collections of his works have been published in Chile, France, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Japan, and the USA.

Nagibin has also written a number of film scripts, including The Little Girl and the Echo, which won the Grand Prix in Cannes and a silver sails award in Locarno. The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa also used Nagibin’s script for his film Dersu Uzala, which won an Oscar.

This volume contains Nagibin’s better-known stories.

You can get the book here and here

Contents

Author’s Foreword. Translated by J. C. Butler 7
Echo. Translated by Natalia Lukoshkova 23
We Shall Live. Translated by Diana Russell 50
The Green Bird with the Bright Red Head. Translated by Graham Whittaker 73
Wanted Urgently! Grey Human Hair. Translated by J. C. Butler 92
Somewhere Near the Conservatoire. Translated by Robert Daglish 141
The Hushed Spring. Translated by J. C. Butler 231
The Outsider. Translated by Eve Manning 251
The Beautiful Horse. Translated by J. C. Butler 317
Envoy from a Mysterious Land. Translated by Valentina Jacque 331
The River of Heraclitus. Translated by Graham Whittaker 352
An Unwritten Story by Somerset Maugham. Translated by S. Kotlobye 418