Ivan Bunin – Dark Alleys – in Georgian

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Georgian translation published by Sulakauri

Georgian language edition of the famous collection of short stories DARK ALLEYS by Ivan Bunin has been published by Sulakauri.

Due to historical circumstances during and also after the Cold War, the successors of Bunin’s relatives and rightful heirs could only very lately be traced completely. Thus before the end of legal copyright The Bunin Estate has been legally reconstituted. Wiedling Literary Agency has had the honor to represent all works by Ivan Bunin worldwide with the exception of Russia and France.

The first russian Nobel Prize winner for literature has seen a real come back because Russian readers feel that a next heavy political turning point will hit Russian society roundabout a hundred years after Bunin’s view on the Revolution of 1917.

Leonid Yuzefovich – Hike to Bar Khoto – in Serbian

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Serbian translation published by Logos Publishers

In Leonid Yuzefovich’s latest and again award winning book, he brings history back to life by again empathizing with the mind of a historically authentic figure. These are the fictional but based on real events memoirs of the Russian officer, Captain Solodovnikov, who served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army in 1912–1914, when the Mongols defended their independence from China. The book intertwines the siege of the Chinese-occupied fortress of Bar-Khoto with love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, the First World War and Solodovnikov’s deportation from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. The hero rethinks his own life and, with it, the fate of a person in a critical epoch.

Anna Starobinets – Green Pastures – in Spanish

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short story GREEN PASTURES published by FERA, Spain

Almost all works by Anna Starobinets are being published in Spanish translation. GREEN PASTURES is one of the short stories from the collection ICARUS GLAND. It has now been published separately in a horror anthology in Spain by Fera Ediciones.

The short stories in ICARUS GLAND are dystopian and dangerously border on reality, where science is merely an excuse to dissect its protagonists and reveal its inner workings.

Aleksei Ivanov – Le Dernier Afghan – in French

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pocket book edition published by Rivages/ Noir

After the TRANSLATION AWARD Inalco/Vo-Vf 2023 for Raphaëlle Pache for bringing Aleksei Ivanov’s thrilling social drama NENASTE – LE DERNIER AFGHAN into French language, the book became more attention and éditions Rivages/Noir now published a pocket book version.

The novel uses a thriller plot to describe the developement of Russian society from the 90ies into the early 2010s. Ex-Afghanistan combats form a first mafia group that still obeys rules of comradeship and „honesty“ and brings kind of stability to a provincial town. But slowly they are pushed aside by other mendacious and „dishonest“ guys who are seeking their private financial profit only. A late revenge of one of the old „honest“ guys brings the situation to escalation.

Dmitri Danilov – Sasha, hello – in Bulgarian

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Bulgarian edition published by Panorama Publishers

The new novel SASHA, HELLO by Dmitri Danilov with dystopian character moves right on the edge of the real situation in Russia. Death penalty was recently introduced as part of a project to humanize the penal system for crimes where society has no real sense of wrongdoing. Executions are no longer carried out by executioners. Instead, a warden has recently taken 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 automatic machine gun. This can happen in three days or in thirty years. As algorithm would have it.

Double awarded by non-governmental institutions: Book of the Year 2022 (by Russian publisher’s community) and Yasnaya Polyana Award 2022 (sponsored by Samsung)

«Description of a City got under my skin and into my livers…» LIZA HAYDEN

Darya Bobyleva – Village at the Edge of Noon – in English

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English translation published by Angry Robot

Angry Robot/ London has published Darya Bobyleva’s horror novel VYURKI in the translation by Ilona Chavasse. The novel turns out to be a good example of an action-horror thriller with an obligatory love spell… then we finally get to know where all these creatures are from, but that doesn‘t make it any easier – by this point the residents of the village are already so crazy, that they are willing to kill each other. Vyurki reads both as a parable about the current state of mind and morals in a world gone mad by all sorts of civilizational and ecological pres- sures, as well as a parable about the basic evil woven into every single human being.

«Darya Bobyleva has the talent of a sorceress in literature – she enters the dark memory of the most ordinary apartments, she senses troubles in familiar relationships, she knows the terrible secrets of average big-city families. The novel „Vyurki“ is the culmination of her mystical forays into the wrong side of everyday life.» VALERIA PUSTOVAYA

Anna Starobinets – Green Pastures for Spain

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Short story GREEN PASTURES in horror anthology

Almost all works by Anna Starobinets are being published in Spanish translation. GREEN PASTURES is one of the short stories from the collection ICARUS GLAND.

The short stories in ICARUS GLAND are dystopian and dangerously border on reality, where science is merely an excuse to dissect its protagonists and reveal its inner workings.