Dmitri Danilov – Sasha, hello – in Spanish for Latin America

new publication

Spanish language edition for Latin America published by Ediciones del Lirio

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.

Maria Galina – Dar Prize 2025

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Dar Prize 2025 for Maria Galina

The book NEAR THE WAR by Maria Galina has been awarded the Dar Prize 2025. Maria Galina has declined the award and wrote an open letter about her refusal. She also sent a statement to the jury and organizers. Both documents are published on the website of Dar Prize with a statement by Mikhail Shishkin as chairman of the jury.

These diary-like notes by Maria Galina are titled NEAR THE WAR because they are not about the war, but about the new everyday life that was caused and created by the war. They are autobiographically rooted painful descriptions of metamorphoses from Russian to Ukrainian, from life in Moscow to Odesa, from old to new communities. This book is not about the aggressors or the chaos they cause, not about who is right and who is wrong. It is about an author‘s return to her city like Odysseus has reached Ithaca again.

Aleksei Ivanov – The Food Shack in English

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World English translation published by Glagoslav

Aleksei Ivanov’s novel THE FOOD BLOCK is a very tricky vampire novel about a highly topical ideological conflict that runs through the entire book on many levels: Independence of thought, dreaminess, the urge for freedom and the attempt to understand our complicated world – as a counterpart to the simple answers and blunt rules that have always been and still are set up, out of laziness of thought or just to enslave people. A novel that is not only straightforward and strong like a wooden post, but also follows the rules of the genre so well, that the reader doesn‘t even notice how he has already been bitten and infected.

Anna Starobinets – Beastly Crime Chronicles series in Dutch

new publication

Dutch re-edition of Vol. 1 by Azboeka

In Dutch language there already had been the translation of Vol. 1 of Anna Starobinets‚ children’s detective series BEASTLY CRIME CHRONICLES.  Now we are happy to have found a new and newly founded publisher who is enthousiastic about taking over and continuing with the full series.

All the heroes of this book series are animals, but they know how to love and hate, lie and tell the truth to their face, trust and despair, betray and save – no worse and no better than us humanoid readers. Who is friend and who is foe, who is an innocent, fluffy victim, who is a deadly female predator, who is a hostage and who is an intruder, you only find out at the end, because according to the rules of the genre, the perpet- rator always remains unknown until the very end.

“A children’s detective is a rare genre, and a children’s psychological detective is an even more unique one. A spectacular literary event.“ PSYCHOLOGIES

Berlin Book Fair for Russian Literature

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Wiedling Literary Agency goes Berlin April 3-5

A book fair for Russian-language literature will take place in Berlin from April 3-6. The fair will not only offer a wide range of events, but also, and especially, showcase newly established Russian-language exile publishers. The fair aims to provide authors, publishers, critics, and readers with an overview of uncensored Russian-language book culture, as well as an opportunity for a free exchange of ideas.

Five authors represented by the agency will be present in person for panels and presentations: Anna Berseneva, Valery Bochkov, Igor Eidman, Mikhail Shishkin, and Anna Starobinets.

Anna Starobinets – Refuge 3/9 for Spain

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Spanish language rights sold to Impedimenta

The urban horror novel REFUGE 3/9 is a genre experiment by Anna Starobinets that has no equivalent in Russian literature.

Masha, a photojournalist on a business trip to Paris, is suddenly confused because the people around her no longer look at her. What begins as a classic “body swap” turns into a creepy and addictive phantasmagoria on several levels. Everyday life suddenly turns into a terrifying fairy tale. Every action carried out in familiar reality echoes ominously in the fairytale reflection. And soon the end of the world seems really close and frightening.

Galina Shatalova – 2 titles refresher in Romanian

new refresher contracts

Romanian editions refreshed by Editura Paralela 45

The intention of Galina Shatalova, as a doctor and as a person, is to return the human being to himself, to help him become as nature conceived and shaped him. For this reason she has created a natural healing method, concrete and theoretically founded. Inspired by the Hippocratic statement that our food should be our remedies and our remedies our food, Shatalova has developed a concept of natural recovery. Her diet strictly opposes the calorie theory of balanced nutrition, which is contrary to human nature. According to her, the human organism is restricted exclusively to plant foods and does not need more than 250 to 400 calories of daily food intake to maintain its basic metabolism.

In her two most famous books CHOOSE YOUR WAY and HEALING NUTRITION she is explaining the anatomical and physiological backgrounds of her concept and reports on her experiences during his practical trials.

Anna Starobinets – Look at Him for Catalan

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Catalan language rights sold to Gata Maula

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.

Viktor Martinovich – Paranoia in Slovak

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Slovak rights sold to Terst

Viktor Martinovich’s debut novel PARANOIA is an electrifying political thriller and a tragic story of love and betrayal, which if nothing else shines a spotlight on the methods of Big Brother in the 21st century – the new reality in Belarus under dictatorship of Lukashenko. As Martinovich himself says: “One does not need to write a new ‘1984‘ anymore, one just needs to look around.“

Maria Galina – Near the War

new representation

Galina’s new title is on the shortlist of Dar Prize 2025

These diary-like notes by Maria Galina are titled NEAR THE WAR because they are not about the war, but about the new everyday life that was caused and created by the war. They are autobiographically rooted painful descriptions of metamorphoses from Russian to Ukrainian, from life in Moscow to Odesa, from old to new communities. This book is not about the aggressors or the chaos they cause, not about who is right and who is wrong. It is about an author‘s return to her city like Odysseus has reached Ithaca again.