It was established by Natasha Perova in 1991, and was instrumental in translating the works of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Victor Pelevin, and Vladimir Sorokin and introducing them to the West.
[1][2] "Glas has published 75 titles over 24 years, but, since half of them are anthologies, these volumes contain 170 different authors “representing various trends and types” of Russian literature.
"[2] Glas books twice won the Rossica Prize, and were praised by George Steiner, Isaiah Berlin[3] and Tibor Fischer.
[2] Tibor Fischer, writing in The Guardian, said: "It is a tribute to the material in Glas 40: War and Peace that it reads almost as if no one has written about war before.
Glas magazine, which launches Russian writing into the English-speaking world, has quietly championed some forgotten, some unrecognised and some new writers, and it has hit the jackpot with this collection.