Olga Slavnikova – Immortal – for China

new sale

Chinese language rights sold to Culture and Art Publishing House

A bed ridden Soviet veteran is being looked after by his wife and daughter. Long may he live, the family is surviving on his pension. The two women create a virtual world for him in his room, cut him off from all sources of information and play him old news recorded on video. All this to convince the old man of the continued existence of his beloved Soviet Union. But all the old man wants – is to finally die. Two generations in an absurdly comical and tragic vicious circle. Is there a way out?

The novel IMMORTAL has been published in 5 languages so far. In her preface to the French edition by Gallimard Olga Slavnikova writes:  „This is no Good bye Lenin clone which you have in front of you. The novel Immortal is a fundamentally different product. The book begins where the film ends…“

Anna Starobinets – Look At Him – in Portuguese (Brazil)

new publication

Portuguese language edition for Brazil published by 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.

Mirzakarim Norbekov – Experience of a Fool 2 – in German

new refresher sale

German language edition continuously published by Random House/ Germany

Mirzakarim Norbekov’s most famous book had a sequel of course which has also been successfully selling in German translation for almost 20 years now.

We are happy having concluded the next refresher term. An audio book edition is planned for fall 2026.

Galina Shatalova – Healing Nutrition – in German

new refresher sales

German translation of 3 titles continuously published by Random House

Three of Galina Shatalova’s famous books on alternative healing have been available in German translation more than 25 years now: CHOOSE YOUR WAY, HEALING NUTRITION and PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH.

The intention of 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 reco- very. 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.

Anna Starobinets – Look at Him – in French

new publication

French language edition published by Actes Sud

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.

Aleksei Ivanov – The Dog Headed – in Italian

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Italian edition continuously published by Voland/ Italy

Aleksei Ivanov’s mystery thriller THE DOG HEADED is intertwining Russia’s past and present horror.

One remembers the extremely hot summer when the peat fields around Moscow were on fire. Even above a remote village near a former prison camp in the forest somewhere towards the Volga lies biting opaque smoke. Three Muscovites have been hired to save a rare fresco depicting St. Christopher with a dog’s head for the museum in the abandoned village church…For far too long, the three Muscovites have been thinking of everything as haunting images in the minds of the villagers, who are still socialized by the surveillance state Russia. But their enlightened intellectual view of the world breaks apart piece by piece in contact with this village community, which has degenerated from primitive primal fears to inhumanity.

Anna Starobinets – Chronicles of the Ashen Spring – for Spain

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new sale

Spanish translation rights sold to Impedimenta

The first license sale of the very fresh new Medieval-post-ap series CHRONICLES OF THE ASHEN SPRING by Anna Starobinets was concluded for Spain with Impedimenta.

A dark past has come instead of a bright future. In those post-apocalyptic New Middle Ages, where the skies are choked with ash and science is deemed heresy, a young inquisitor investigates witchcraft cases, desperately seeking reality and truth where everyone else sees only delusion and sorcery. The climate has changed, dark snow falls from the perpetually ashen skies. The gods have changed, people worship the Great Gee, Who Knows the Answer to Every Question – but who exactly is this deity passed down through oral traditions: a Jesus or GPT?

Each book is an investigation of a witch case.

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Aleksei Ivanov – The Geographer Drank His Globe Away – in Italian

new refresher contract

refresher contract concluded with Voland

Although Aleksei Ivanov is now renown for his historical fiction and horror novels, it was the realistic fiction novel THE GEOGRAPHER DRANK HIS GLOBE AWAY that made him famous – not only in Russia.

In the Russian province of the 90s a young teacher fights with the children of the new generation. He has been assigned to the most rebellious class. The „geography teacher“ and the teenagers, who are ready to break him, first sit in the walls of the classroom, but then outside the walls they together experience an adventure of comradeship and initiation.

„Geographer“ pumps new blood into the channels of emotional perception through literature and lets many readers again – lite- rally as the first time – feel very simple and familiar things: winter, love, wind, trust, lone- liness, the smell of cigarette smoke, the taste of vodka, the headache of a hangover.“ GALINA YUZEFOVICH