“At their best the stories resemble Kafka, perhaps viewed through the hallucinatory lens of Gogal. ”
‘The Last Day’, Jaroslavas Melnikas’ off beat hit book of short stories was shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award.
Writing about why it was nominated, the Rubery Book Award wrote that ‘The Last Day was ‘a powerful collection of short stories by a Lithuanian writer of Ukrainian descent….At their best the stories resemble Kafka, perhaps viewed through the hallucinatory lens of Gogal. It’s a class act.’
Congratulations to Jaroslavas Melnikas for this accolade.