A medal and a review

The 2016 Goethe Medal goes to writer Yurii Andrukhovych from Ukraine. Every year the Goethe-Institut confers the official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany to honour figures who have performed outstanding service to convey the German language and promote international cultural relations. And coincidentally, my review of Andrukhovych's novel TWELVE CIRCLES (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015) was just published by Rain Taxi Review of Books.