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"It was then that I understood this is what literature should do to you". Boris Akunin is one of Russia鈥檚 most famous authors and has been compared to Gogol and Tolstoy. He talks about a poem on grief by the 18th century Japanese poet Fukuda Chiyo-ni, which had a profound impact on his work.

Photo: Boris Akunin. Credit: David Levenson, Getty Images.