Lada Luzina – Witches of Kyiv for Poland

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Polish language rights for 2 volumes of the series sold to Insignis

Kyiv has been considered not only the centre of the Christian orthodox faith but also the witches’ capital since time immemorial. Many Russian-Ukrainian artists (Mikhail Vrubel), authors (Mikhail Bulgakov) and musicians (Modest Mussorgsky) have drawn on this tradition. The settings are all so authentic that the series WITCHES OF KYIV by Lada Luzina can almost be read as an alternative guide book. With a detailed portrait of both contemporary and historical Kyiv the author tempts the reader into a world where reality is hardly distinguishable from the phantastic plot.

In this book a real demon has returned to Kyiv and none other than the three witches are able to protect the town from his curse and from a third murder. Wishful thinking when the author started to write the series, but already 15 years ago the young generation in Ukraine and especially in the big cities was full of positive plans, dreams and wishes for their own future free of old demons.

Pavel Belyanski – Grandma did not love to die

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Estonian language rights sold to Eesti Ramaat

Pavel Belyanski’s novel GRANDMA DID NOT LOVE TO DIE is a cruel, beautiful, openly funny and truthfully sad family saga over three generations. All their lives they strive for personal happiness in their home, but there has never been real love. Each chapter here is a work of its own, a piece of life, an ironic, sad and powerful story. Nestled together, they weave into a magnificent canvas of the story of the residents of a mining village in Eastern Ukraine.

Pavel Belyanski has joined Ukraine forces at the moment to defend his country against Russian aggressors.

Sergei Gerasimov – Notes from Kharkiv in German and Hungarian

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German edition published by dtv, Hungarian edition published by Helikon

On February 24, 2022, the Russian army launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The city of Kharkiv quickly comes under heavy fire. Hundreds of thousands of people flee. The Ukrainian writer Sergey Gerasimov and his wife together with several cats remain in the embattled frontline town. Soon there will be a lack of clean water, food and medical infrastructure. The thermometers show high sub-zero temperatures, people are freezing. Gerasimov begins to write about the absurdity of everyday life in war. The result is a stirring testimony, an appeal for peace and understanding and thus a perfect book for memorial day of beginning of war in February every year.

New Russian Horror

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special selection of best Russian horror

The agency is proud to open another important section on the SCIFI-FANTASY WEBSITE presenting a special selection of best works in the genre of HORROR .

Among the authors you will find renown names like ANNA STAROBINETS, the «Queen of Russian Horror», another rising star and female «Master of Horror» DARYA BOBYLEVA, 3 mystical horror novels by living classic super star ALEKSEI IVANOV who is writing in several genres, 2 scifi novels with horror elements by MAX MAXIMOV who received the Aelita and the Strugatski Awards in 2021, a very slavic horror novel by ANDREI RUBANOV and last but not least a Best-of from the most successful Russian horror series MOST SCARY BOOK.which was launched some years ago by the «Godfather of Russian Horror» M.S. PARFENOV.

All authors will be introduced with their titles here in single posts on this news blog in the near future. But publishers should not be afraid to already now check the links above and send requests for proof reading.

Bunin – Dark Alleys in Estonian

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Estonian translation of  published by Postimees

This beautiful hardcover edition of the famous collection of short stories DARK ALLEYS by Ivan Bunin is the third Western edition within 3 years.

The first russian Nobel Prize winner for literature has a come back because not only Russian readers feel that a next heavy political turning point has hit the world which is hundred years after Bunin’s view on the other turning point in history – the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Pavel Belyanski – Grandma did not love to die

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Ukraine family saga about three generations in Donbass

Pavel Belyanski was born in 1977 in a family of military servants in the village of Shakhta No. 9, Lugansk region. Under the pen name „Pashtet“ he actively wrote in samizdat and became the winner of various competitions. Right now he is defending his country as a volunteer soldier for Ukraine. Belyanski is married and has two children.

His novel GRANDMA DID NOT LOVE TO DIE is a cruel, beautiful, openly funny and truthfully sad family saga over three generations. All their lives they strive for personal happiness in their home, but there has never been real love. Each chapter here is a work of its own, a piece of life, an ironic, sad and powerful story. Nestled together, they weave into a magnificent canvas of the story of the residents of a mining village in Eastern Ukraine.

When grandma is on her deathbed once again, her husband Petro admits that he never loved her. Whereupon she jumps up alive and leaves the house angrily… Grandmother Anya always says: Don‘t worry, I‘m not going to die, God doesn‘t want me. She feels sinful because she has denied her firstborn all her life. In the end she dies without seeing him again.

Aleksei Ivanov – The Hound Headed in Italy

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Italian translation published by Voland

Aleksei Ivanov is at home in different genres. But he is always interested in those times, places and events in Russian culture where a transition from one cultural system to another takes place. In his novel THE HOUND HEADED it is the clash between strangers from the big city with their Mercedes bus, their notebooks and mobile phones including social networks – and a village community, which has degenerated from primitive primal fears to inhumanity.

Three Muscovites have been hired by an ominous preservation fund via the Internet to save a rare fresco depicting St. Christopher with a hound‘s head for the museum in the abandoned village church. The village and its inhabitants, who are not only outwardly totally run-down, react aggressively to the strangers with their Mercedes bus, their notebooks and mobile phones including social networks. 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.

“A rich, atmospheric American thriller, moved to our native aspen forest, which uses all our Russian phobias… of course the reader is hoodwinked, but extremely clever.“ ST. PETERBURG VEDOMOSTI

Aleksei Nikitin – Victory Park in French

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refresher contract for French edition with Noir sur Blanc

The Ukrainian author Aleksei Nikitin has not only a feel for the raw nerves of a fin de siècle, but also the skill to present his hometown of Kiev ironically and season it with original anecdotes and characters. In VICTORY PARK we learn the names of the villages which occupied the left bank of the Dnepr before the prefab housing blocks began their sprawl in the 1970s; why the soviet housing administration disliked pigeon post and in this did not differ from the German invaders during World War II; and how the rumour of a neglected German army bunker can develop into a real hideout for a neo-Leninist combat unit, who at the end of the novel spark off a final Maidan of the Righteous in Victory park.

Galina Shatalova – Choose your way in Romania

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Romanian translation published by Editura Paralela 45

Inspired by the Hippocratic statement that our food should be our remedies and our remedies our food, Galina 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. Everything we eat too much burdens the body and must be „disposed of“ by it. In this book CHOOSE YOUR WAY – METHOD OF HEALING NUTRITION she explains the anatomical and physiological backgrounds of her concept and reports on her experiences during his practical trials.