Gifts under the Russian Christmas Tree

new awards

Congratulating our authors for such a rich variety of awards under this year’s Christmas tree.

 

BIG BOOK AWARD

LEONID YUZEFOVICH – 1. winner (gold) for PHILHELLENES (historical novel)

VIKTOR REMIZOV – 3. winner (bronze) for ETERNAL FROST (historical novel)

 

AELITA AWARD

MAX MAXIMOV – WINNER Aelita Start Award 2021

and NOMINATION for the International Stanislav Lem Award

 

BOOK OF THE YEAR

VIKTOR REMIZOV – WINNER with ETERNAL FROST (category prose)

ALEKSEI IVANOV – WINNER with SHADOWS OF THE TEUTONS (category audiobook)

MIKHAIL VIZEL – FINALIST with PUSHKIN.BOLDINO.QUARANTINE (category Humanitas)

LEV DANILKIN – FINALIST with GAGARIN. PASSENGER WITH KIDS (category non-fiction)

Grigori Kanovich – Devilspel

new sale

Polish translation rights sold to Fundacja 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

Leonid Yuzefovich – Winter Road

 

new publication

Mongolian translation has been published by Onon Chinzorig

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.