Mara Moustafine is author of the award-winning book Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files. A work of literary non-fiction, it tells the story of her quest to uncover the fate of relatives during Stalin’s purges in the Soviet Union and her family’s life over fifty turbulent years in China, where she herself was born.
A Chinese edition,
Harbin Dang’an (The Harbin Files), translated by Li Yao, was published in 2008. Over 400 people attended the launch at the Zhongyang Book Store in Harbin on 22 March 2009 during Mara’s month long visit to Hong Kong and China to participate in international literary festivals. Watch the Harbin video below and see Events for details.
LISTEN to Mara’s podcast at the 2009 Shanghai International Literary Festival DOWNLOAD
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WATCH Mara’s interview with Mexican journalist LYDIA CACHO at the 2010 Sydney Writers’ Festival, 21 May 2010
Recently published
“Russians”, Dictionary of Sydney online, March 2011
with Andrew Jakubowicz, “Living on the Outside: cultural diversity and the transformation of public space in Melbourne” in Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal, Vol.2, No.3, 2010
“Russians from China: Migrations and Indentity” in The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Volume 9, No. 6, 2010.
Watch Mara’s Harbin book launch March 2009 - compliments of Heilongjiang TV
Watch Mara’s interview in Russian on PARTNERY.CN
- Mara on Russian TV in China
Read now in English:
- how the translation came about: download The Harbin Files Preface - Chinese Edition.
- the continuing story: download The Harbin Files Postscript - Chinese Edition.
