Viktor Remizov – Temptation

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Bulgarian edition has been published by Aviana

At home they were Russian citizens; in Moscow they are just refugees, like Tajiks, Azerbaijanis, Georgians. Viktor Remizov’s novel TEMPTATION tells the story of what it is like to be a migrant in one’s own country. Soberly and without exaggerated literary effects, the author shows us the naked truth about the life of the younger generation in Russia. Nothing seems to be imagined or added.

„Remizov realistically tells the (crossing) paths of a Russian youth with betrayed ideals in a city jungle where everything is allowed. The journey of his two heroines, who are so generous, graceful and lovable, sends a cold shiver down your spine.“
CULTURE LIVRES

Aleksandr Grigorenko – Ilget

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World English translation rights have been acquired by Glagoslav Publishers

Even before publishing Alexander Grigorenko’s previous novel MEBET Glagoslav aquired world English rights also for the next novel ILGET.

„Braving the commercially suicidal subject of „northern ethnicity“ for a second time and even though he uses the same material, Grigorenko successfully manages to produce a completely new novel that in no way resembles MEBET. And which has a moral message.“ GALINA YUZEFOVICH

Olga Slavnikova – Three Sisters

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Japanese translation rights for short story sold to Toyo Shoten/ Japan

A short story from Olga Slavnikova’s prose collection LOVE IN TRAIN CAR No. 7 will be part of a Japanese edition with collected Russian prose. The full collection of LOVE IN TRAIN CAR No. 7 has been published in Vietnamese language and single short stories from it in LETTRE INTERNATIONAL and US magazines. English translation is available.

Olga Beshlei – The FSB and my Big Pink Dildo

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Chapter from her book published by Matthes&Seitz Berlin

It is not at all difficult for Olga Beshlei’s heroine to find emancipated soulmates in any Western city who have suffered similarly. Except perhaps the panic about trying to hide a huge pink dildo before a house search by the secret service FSB should be considerably less outside Russia. One chapter from her book MY WEIRD LOVER FROM THE FSB has been published by Matthes&Seitz Berlin within the dekoder book 2019.

„Everyone in the FSB will read it and roll over laughing.“ ALEKSANDR LYCHAGIN

Leonid Yuzefovich – Winter Road

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Armenian rights sold to ALRD
Mongolian rights sold to ONON

By using this hardly known episode of the very last battle of the Russian Revolution in his twice award-winning narrative non-fiction book, Yuzefovich is able to portray deeper human motives: the love, passion and individual suffering that are buried in the ideology are revealed and the characters shown to be both oppressor and victim. In the end each individual is responsible for the Russian tragedy.

7 languages sold so far: Armenian, Bulgarian, French, Mongolian, Polish, Serbian, Latvian

Viktor Martinovich – Revolution

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German translation published by Voland & Quist

In Belarus holding a print copy of Viktor Martinovich’s novel REVOLUTION in hand has become a symbol of protest. Recently 600 copies of the Belarusian edition of REVOLUTION have been confiscated by the police, the publisher had been arrested for some while. REVOLUTION is not about the protests in Minsk, but about subservience to the corruption of power.

Read an interview in English with Martinovich about the actual situation in Belarus.

Aleksei Nikitin – Batami. From the Face of Fire

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Ukrainian translation rights sold to Phoenix Publishing

Ukrainian Jewish boxing champion Ilya Goldinov has just come second place in the Soviet All-Union championships when World War II breaks out. After the German invasion of Ukraine, he joins the partisan fighters in the forests behind the front line. Only by lucky coincidence does he survive and he joins the regular army as a soldier before being sent by the Ukrainian secret service on a life-threatening mission to occupied Kiev.

Aleksei Nikitin’s novel BAT-AMI. FROM THE FACE OF FIRE is not a documentary novel, but its story – inspired in part by the author‘s family history – is based on Ukrainian files relating to 1941-42 secret service operations. The novel tells the true story of the famous boxer Goldinov, because the rumours that were still circulating in Kiev after the war have largely proven to be false, as has old Yad Vashem version of the events.

Natalia Stepanova – Russian Healing Spells

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Polish translation published by Studio Astropsychologii

Natalia Stepanova is one of the very few Russian shamans and magicians who are publishing their spells and practical witchcraft advices in writing. But she herself as a person is trying to avoid any publicity in the media. Her books are for all who are interested in the original tradition of Russian folk magic. Magic means above all – a certain rhythm of life, a certain daily routine, the observance of certain rules, pilgrimages, work in the forest and other places of power.

Leonid Yuzefovich – Kazaroza

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historical detective novel published by China Radio Film & TV Press

 

Set in 1920, civil war is still raging in Russia. The famous St Petersburg singer Zinaida Kazaroza arrives in a city in the Ural. The members of the local Esperanto Club invite her to sing. Then she is shot under mysterious circumstances during the concert. The journalist and revolutionary Svechnikov, a secret admirer of Kazaroza, together with the poet Vagin, undertake to trace her murderer.

«One often hears the question: we know Pelevin, Sorokin, and Akunin. Are there not any other good writers? Yes there are. Leonid Yuzefovich.» KONSERVATOR

Aleksei Ivanov – Heart of Parma

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Serbian translation rights sold to Čarobna Knjiga Belgrad

Set in the 15th century Aleksei Ivanov’s historical novel HEART OF PARMA is epic, romantic, lush, brutal and wrenchingly mystical: history blends seamlessly with invention, new religion with native magic, passion with death. It is a heady, superbly involving entertainment with battles and churches, captives and crucifixions, pagan temples and human sacrifice, princes and traitors, women who turn into wolves and men who are cursed to live forever. It is, at heart, the tale of conquest and clashing civilizations.

Listen to a 3 minutes youtube clip with the author about his novel (activate English subtitles).