Monat: Januar 2018

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German translation rights for Zaza Burchuladze’s novel THE INFLATABLE ANGEL have been sold to Aufbau/Blumenbar.

At exactly the same time as the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano filled Europe’s skies with ash causing airlines to cancel flights, Niko and his wife Nino are holding a spiritualist session in a small apartment in Tiflis. Their aim is to call up the spirit of George Gurdjieff who was a famous esoteric, writer, choreographer and composer in the early 20th century of importance not only for Georgia. Indeed, Gurdjieff appears in flesh and blood and fantastic occurrences start taking place.

Forced into exile and now living in Berlin, Burchuladze will be one of the stars at next Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 with Georgia as guest of honor, presenting his third book in German.

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While the mothers in Siberia wait for their soldier sons to return from the war in the west in 1945, the eight year old Eduard secretly jumps on board the trains heading in the opposite direction, heading west, towards Leningrad. Placed in a Siberian orphanage as a child because his parents were arrested as public enemies there is only one thing he wants: to go back home to Leningrad and to find his mother again.

Czech translation rights for Eduard Kochergin’s true story novel THE ESCAPE – BAPTIZED WITH CROSSES have been sold to Albatros Media. 8 Languages sold.

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The newest series by Nik Perumov, the grand master of Russian high fantasy, is about a young girl from a family well-respected in the Empire, and a barbarian boy, taken prisoner by this Empire. Only his knowledge and her spells of magic can help to save the world. But it is so difficult to make the adults understand.

Translation rights for the full series of THE ADVENTURES OF MOLLY BLACKWATER in 3 volumes have been sold to Czech Republic/ Dobrovsky and Poland/ Akurat.

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The young adult fantasy series THE POWERFUL ONES by D. Gromov and O. Ladyzhensky writing in co-authorship under their well-known pen name H.L.Oldie, is set in a far northern nature full of miracles and tells the story of a young man who needs to find out about a family secret and his lost brother to defeat the threats of death.

This series has recently won the literary award „Filigree“ (Russia) by literary critics for its literary perfection.

Czech translation rights for both volumes of the series have been sold to Dobrovsky.