Grigori Kanovich – Devilspel – in Polish

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Zaza Burchuladze – SABA Award 2022

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2022 SABA Award Best Georgian Novel of the Year

Several of Zaza Burchuladze’s novels had been shortlisted for this most important literary award in Georgia. But only now his new novel ZOORAMA finally received this most prestigious award.

Congratulation!

Viktor Martinovich – Revolution – for Norway

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Norwegian language rights sold to Existenz publishing

In Belarus holding a print copy of Viktor Martinovich’s novel REVOLUTION in hand has become a symbol of protest. During the protests on the streets of Minsk copies of the Belarusian edition of REVOLUTION have been confiscated by the police, the publisher had been arrested for some while. Although: REVOLUTION is not about the protests in Minsk, but about subservience to the corruption of power. Which is an equally threatening topic for Lukashenko and his regime.

Aleksei Nikitin – The Orderly from Institutska – in Italian

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excerpts of the novel published by Mondadori

Aleksei Nikitin’s short novel THE ORDERLY FROM INSTITUTSKA STREET is the story of two friends from Kyiv, the poet Yurka Nezgoda and the artist Nikolai Umanets. In the 1990’s Nezgoda and Umanets were promi- nent members of the bohemian Kyiv art scene. In the end the heroes meet again on Kyiv’s Maidan Square. Umanets is with the protesters, while Nezgoda tries to stay neutral. But it is Nezgoda who gets pulled into the swirl of events in the novel. He dies as an orderly, trying to move the wounded to safety under fire. Umanets watches his friend die on live television.

In 2019, five years after Maidan, the novel was the only Russian-language novel to be included in the list of “Best texts about Maidan.”

“Maidan, as a lived experience, when the feeling of history being created, is perceived deeply and directly. This made The Orderly a deeper and wiser text than a mere projection of a series of lost generation.“
LITCENTR

Viktor Martinovich – Mova – in Latvian

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Latvian translation published by Prometejs

Viktor Martinovich’s novel MOVA seems to be a spy thriller but of course it is about politics: Minsk in the year 2044, a provincial town in the north-west of the United States of China and Russia. Family and love are considered to be out-dated concepts, spiritual needs are fulfilled by consuming and advertising. Despite draconian punishments a particular drug somehow and repeatedly manages to get into the country: mova.

«MOVA is funny. MOVA is sad. MOVA is full of surprises. It is bizarre, it is a thriller, a nightmare – and intoxicating. A powerfully un-cut drug in the form of a book, a fix of which can only be heartily recommended.» DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR