nomination award
DEVILSPEL in English translation on shortlist for the EBRD Literature Prize
Grigori Kanovich’s novel DEVILSPEL has been announced as finalist in the 2020 EBRD Literature Prize by the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the EBRD).
«Devilspel is a moving and elegant novel of fine character portraits, told in restrained but beautiful prose, set in a small town in Lithuania at a watershed moment of history, when ethnic cleansing and the Holocaust enter the lives of the local Jews and non-Jews alike, dividing neighbours and families into persecuted and persecutors.» ROSIE GOLDSMITH, Chair of the Judges