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

Leonid Yuzefovich – Winter Road – in Chinese

new sale

Chinese translation rights sold to Culture And Art Publishing House, Beijing

Leonid Yuzefovich is telling a hardly known episode, the last battle of the Russian Revolution. In this twice award-winning non-fictional novel WINTER ROAD, the author 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.

Dmitri Rus – Play To Live series – for France

new sale

French language rights for full PLAY TO LIVE series sold to Zweihänder

The LitRPG series PLAY TO LIVE by D. Rus is constantly super successful in English and in German.

Now Zweihänder Publishing acquired ebook, print and audiobook rights for the full series also for French language and will publish soon in a fresh translation.

Anna Starobinets – Awkward Age – for Spain

new sale

Spanish language rights sold to Impedimenta

The book AWKARD AGE by Anna Starobinets contains a novella and another half dozen of horror stories.

A boy turning into the anthill is the striking metaphor of the awkward age developed in the head title. An ant-queen gets into his head through the ear when he is six and starts setting the ant colony inside his body, believing that such symbiotic existence can open the new horizons for the ants. The boy’s voice in his diary little by little turns into the collective voice of the ants living inside him and making him obey their needs. Having started as a family story about a divorced mother with two kids who have to live through the awkward age, the narrative switches unexpectedly to a nearly Kafkaesque one.

Aleksei Ivanov – Fighting Rivers – in Serbian

new publication

Serbian translation published by Russika

Aleksei Ivanov’s Siberian novel THE FIGHTING RIVERS is about the tragedy of Russia’s river fleet during the Revolution. It shows Russia at the beginning of the 20th century as a rapidly developing country with a huge advanced river fleet, almost entirely in private hands. This entire complex economic massif was practically blown up by the tragedy of 1917. The main plot happens within one and a half years only, during the odyssey of the smuggler „Levshino“, who in the battles on the Kama River in 1918-1919 has enough time to fight for the Reds, the Whites, the Greens and for himself.

A novel about a seemingly distant war. But under the magnifying glass of Ivanov‘s prose we see a truth hidden deep within that extends to contemporary Russia.

Dmitri Danilov – Sasha, hello – in Persian

new publication

Persian translation rights published by Borj Books, imprint of Houpaa

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.

Ivan Bunin – Dark Alleys – in Georgian

new publication

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

new publication

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.