D. Rus – Play to Live – in German

new publication

German translation of the full series published by Zweihänder

The LitRPG series PLAY TO LIVE by D. Rus is constantly super successful in English. Finally also the LitRPG series PLAY TO LIVE will find its way to German readers and fans. Zwiehänder is planning to publish one volume after the other every 2 months. The audibook will follow.

Dmitri Danilov – The Man from Podolsk – in Greek

new publication

the Greek translation of the play as theatre booklet

After several highly acclaimed literary novels the play THE MAN FROM PODOLSK has made Dmitri Danilov famous also among the theatre audience also outside of Russia. The first quality production by the National Theatre of Greece in Athens, directed by George Koutlis, had premiere in 2022 and was successfully continued in a second season in 2023/2024.

An absolutely ordinary young man, an electro musician and resident of the Moscow-area city of Podolsk, finds himself in an ordinary Moscow police station. He’s being held for no apparent reason, no explanations, he committed no crime.

Zaza Burchuladze – My Song

new representation

an ode to Keith Jarrett

The new narrative non-fiction book MY SONG by Georgian writer Zaza Burchuladze is a “romance”, an ode to the sacred relationship between an artist and a listener. It is filled with the sound of music. The act of reading is like listening “noveli- zed music” switching on the famous soundtracks in our own memory. This book is the search for peace and a piece of homeland that can never be taken away from you.

„This is a divine book about divine music..“
LEVAN BERDZENISHVILI (writer, literary critic, literature professor)

Grigori Kanovich – Devilspel – in Polish

new publication

Polish translation published by Pogranicze

The novel is set during the tragic few weeks in June-July 1941, when the German army in a sudden attack defeated the Red Army and within a few days occupied Lithuania. Grigori Kanovich’s writing is informed by his deep native knowledge of the Lithuanian countryside where he grew up in the 1930s, but he is no less intimately familiar with the Russian and Jewish cultures. Yet his real interest as a writer is in exploring the fundamental and universal ethical conflict between good and evil, which transcends the limits of concrete space and time.

«DEVILSPEL is a moving and elegant novel of fine character portraits, told in restrained but beautiful prose, set in a small town in Lithuania at a watershed moment of history, when ethnic cleansing and the Holocaust enter the lives of the local Jews and non-Jews alike, dividing neighbours and families into persecuted and persecutors.»
ROSIE GOLDSMITH, Chair of the Judges EBRD Literature Prize

Dmitri Danilov – Sasha, hello – for Italy

new sale

Italian language rights sold to Voland Edizione

Dmitri Danilov’s double award winning novel SASHA, HELLO! is welcoming us to the new Russia. Prisons are now called Combinat, you live like in a luxury hotel. Executions are no longer carried out by executioners. Instead, a warden takes you out for a walk every day through the same hallway, where one fine day you will be torn to pieces by a salvo of an algorithm controlled machine gun. This can happen in three days or in thirty years. As luck would have it. All humane, because you actually don‘t notice anything and can go on living your life as before.

The main character of the book is reminiscent of all the key figures of the most famous anti-utopias at once, from D-503 to Josef K., but the conditions in which he is placed have never been told in such a way. This novel moves right on the edge of the real.

Anna Starobinets – Look at Him – for Brazil

new sale

Portuguese language rights for Brazil sold to Editora Mundaréu

Anna Starobinets‚ documentary novel LOOK AT HIM is a groundbreaking memoir about the devastating loss of her unborn son to a fatal birth defect. The memoir describes her struggle to find sympathy, community, and psychological support for herself and her family.

The book ignited a firestorm when first published in Russia, prompting both high praise and severe condemnation for the author’s willingness to discuss long-taboo issues of women’s agency over their own bodies.

Grigori Kanovich – Devilspel – in Bosnian

new publication

Bosnian translation published by Buybook

The novel is set during the tragic few weeks in June-July 1941, when the German army in a sudden attack defeated the Red Army and within a few days occupied Lithuania. Grigori Kanovich’s writing is informed by his deep native knowledge of the Lithuanian countryside where he grew up in the 1930s, but he is no less intimately familiar with the Russian and Jewish cultures. Yet his real interest as a writer is in exploring the fundamental and universal ethical conflict between good and evil, which transcends the limits of concrete space and time.

«DEVILSPEL is a moving and elegant novel of fine character portraits, told in restrained but beautiful prose, set in a small town in Lithuania at a watershed moment of history, when ethnic cleansing and the Holocaust enter the lives of the local Jews and non-Jews alike, dividing neighbours and families into persecuted and persecutors.»
ROSIE GOLDSMITH, Chair of the Judges EBRD Literature Prize

Viktor Martinovich – theatre – in Germany

book presentation & theatre premiere

Münchner Volkstheater November 2023

After Viktor Martinovich’s novel REVOLUTION had been adapted for the stage (after SchauSpielHaus Hamburg in 2022) also by Münchner Volkstheater in March 2023 (shown again in January 2024), the author will now read from the book and have a discussion about it on stage at the Münchner Volkstheater on Wednesday November 15 at 8pm.

Also in November at the Münchner Volkstheater there will be the premiere of FABIAN ODER: DER GANG VOR DIE HUNDE in memory of Erich Kästner with text contributions by Viktor Martinovich and others.