Anna Starobinets – Beastly Crime Chronicles series in Dutch

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Dutch re-edition of Vol. 1 by Azboeka

In Dutch language there already had been the translation of Vol. 1 of Anna Starobinets‚ children’s detective series BEASTLY CRIME CHRONICLES.  Now we are happy to have found a new and newly founded publisher who is enthousiastic about taking over and continuing with the full series.

All the heroes of this book series are animals, but they know how to love and hate, lie and tell the truth to their face, trust and despair, betray and save – no worse and no better than us humanoid readers. Who is friend and who is foe, who is an innocent, fluffy victim, who is a deadly female predator, who is a hostage and who is an intruder, you only find out at the end, because according to the rules of the genre, the perpet- rator always remains unknown until the very end.

“A children’s detective is a rare genre, and a children’s psychological detective is an even more unique one. A spectacular literary event.“ PSYCHOLOGIES

Berlin Book Fair for Russian Literature

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Wiedling Literary Agency goes Berlin April 3-5

A book fair for Russian-language literature will take place in Berlin from April 3-6. The fair will not only offer a wide range of events, but also, and especially, showcase newly established Russian-language exile publishers. The fair aims to provide authors, publishers, critics, and readers with an overview of uncensored Russian-language book culture, as well as an opportunity for a free exchange of ideas.

Five authors represented by the agency will be present in person for panels and presentations: Anna Berseneva, Valery Bochkov, Igor Eidman, Mikhail Shishkin, and Anna Starobinets.

Anna Starobinets – Refuge 3/9 for Spain

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Spanish language rights sold to Impedimenta

The urban horror novel REFUGE 3/9 is a genre experiment by Anna Starobinets that has no equivalent in Russian literature.

Masha, a photojournalist on a business trip to Paris, is suddenly confused because the people around her no longer look at her. What begins as a classic “body swap” turns into a creepy and addictive phantasmagoria on several levels. Everyday life suddenly turns into a terrifying fairy tale. Every action carried out in familiar reality echoes ominously in the fairytale reflection. And soon the end of the world seems really close and frightening.

Galina Shatalova – 2 titles refresher in Romanian

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Romanian editions refreshed by Editura Paralela 45

The intention of Galina 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 recovery. 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.

In her two most famous books CHOOSE YOUR WAY and HEALING NUTRITION she is explaining the anatomical and physiological backgrounds of her concept and reports on her experiences during his practical trials.

Anna Starobinets – Look at Him for Catalan

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Catalan language rights sold to Gata Maula

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.

Viktor Martinovich – Paranoia in Slovak

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Slovak rights sold to Terst

Viktor Martinovich’s debut novel PARANOIA is an electrifying political thriller and a tragic story of love and betrayal, which if nothing else shines a spotlight on the methods of Big Brother in the 21st century – the new reality in Belarus under dictatorship of Lukashenko. As Martinovich himself says: “One does not need to write a new ‘1984‘ anymore, one just needs to look around.“

Maria Galina – Near the War

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Galina’s new title is on the shortlist of Dar Prize 2025

These diary-like notes by Maria Galina are titled NEAR THE WAR because they are not about the war, but about the new everyday life that was caused and created by the war. They are autobiographically rooted painful descriptions of metamorphoses from Russian to Ukrainian, from life in Moscow to Odesa, from old to new communities. This book is not about the aggressors or the chaos they cause, not about who is right and who is wrong. It is about an author‘s return to her city like Odysseus has reached Ithaca again.

Anna Starobinets – Beastly Crime Chronicles Vol 1 in Turkish

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first volume published by Kalila publishers

In Anna Starobinets‚ children’s detective series BEASTLY CRIME CHRONICLES  all the heroes are animals, but they know how to love and hate, lie and tell the truth to their face, trust and despair, betray and save – no worse and no better than us humanoid readers. Who is friend and who is foe, who is an innocent, fluffy victim, who is a deadly female predator, who is a hostage and who is an intruder, you only find out at the end, because according to the rules of the genre, the perpet- rator always remains unknown until the very end.

“A children’s detective is a rare genre, and a children’s psychological detective is an even more unique one. A spectacular literary event.“ PSYCHOLOGIES

Zaza Burchuladze – Saba Award for MY SONG

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Saba Award 2024 for the book MY SONG

Zaza Burchuladze’s book MY SONG won in the category “Best Essay and Documentary Prose” of the year 2024.

The new narrative non-fiction book MY SONG by Georgian writer Zaza Burchuladze is a “romance”, an ode to the sacred relationship between an artist and a listener. It is filled with the sound of music. The act of reading is like listening “noveli- zed music” switching on the famous soundtracks in our own memory. This book is the search for peace and a piece of homeland that can never be taken away from you.

„This is a divine book about divine music..“
LEVAN BERDZENISHVILI (writer, literary critic, literature professor)

Leonid Yuzefovich – Philhellenes in Serbian

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Serbian translation published by Russika

The twenties of the 19th century. In Greece there is a war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. The revolutionaries have many sympathisers throughout Europe who are willing to voluntarily defend the old culture and fight to preserve the old greatness. This is what they are called: Philhellenes – lovers of the Greeks.

Leonid Yuzefovich’s historical novel PHILHELLENES, told in the form of letters, diary entries and mental conversations of absent heroes, focuses not only on the Philhellenes of the Urals. Numerous people and representatives of different nations and social classes come to word, which paints a multi-faceted picture of a bygone era.