Oleksii Mustafin – In Bed with a Bear

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Neighbouring Russia as a historical challenge

The popular non-fiction book IN BED WITH A BEAR by Ukraine journalist and media manager Oleksii Mustafin tells the story of the uneasy experience of coexistence with a state that is constantly seeking to expand its borders, while at the same time complaining about prejudiced attitude from those who live next door to it. Even after the aggression of Russia against Ukraine not all people in Europe have understood that they shouldn’t reassure themselves that such problems only affect Ukrainians, Belarusians or Moldovans. History shows that if the aggressor is not dealt with in time, any country in Europe and even in the world can eventually become Russia‘s neighbour.

“Oleksii Mustafin‘s book „In Bed with a Bear“ is not just interesting, but also extremely necessary. In simple language, fascinating facts and captivating characters, it traces the chronology of Russian imperialism from the destruction of Novgorod to the present day.“ OLENA KONDRATIUK, Vice-Chair of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine

Anna Starobinets – Beastly Crime Chronicles – for Turkey

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Turkish translation rights for the series sold to Kalila/ Turkey

This is the 17th language sold for Anna Starobinets‚ children’s detective series BEASTLY CRIME CHRONICLES.

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

Aleksei Ivanov – Riot Gold – in Arabic

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Arabic translation published by Dar al-Kutub/ Emirates

Aleksei Ivanov’s historical novel RIOT GOLD is realistic and mystic at the same time. Because those times back in Siberia are really still mystic themselves.

1778. The Urals are smoky by mining plants. And for factories there is only one road to Russia – the rough river Chusovaya. But here the barks with factory iron are rut- hlessly destroyed by coastal rocks. For the rafters, who lead the barks on the river stremnins, there is a way to avoid the wreckage: to ask Satan for help, and transfer their immortal soul, so as not to stain it with sin, to save the torturers in a schismatic sect.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky – How to Slay a Dragon – in German

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full version published by Europa Verlag

A short version of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s newest book HOW TO SLAY A DRAGON had been published as a booklet for the Munich Security Conference where Khodorkovsky was on stage as a conference speaker. Now enhanced with a special chapter on Ukraine the full version has been published as a hardcover.

How can a totalitarian regime be put to an end? By whom? From the inside or from the outside? With a totalitarian ruler acting aggressively both internally and externally, would there even be a chance of a reasonably peaceful change of power? After that, who would come to power in Russia? And what would that power look like? How should a new Russian state be organized in order to break through the compulsion to repeat imperialism?

Far from any know-it-all attitude, the book poses questions, uncomfortable questions that have been avoided in the West up to now, such as non-violence, and derives the resulting options for action. It does not want to provide recipes, but to initiate a dis- cussion long overdue.

Viktor Martinovich – Paranoia – in Swedish

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Swedish translation published by Ersatz

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.“

Julia Kissina – Springtime on the Moon – in Estonian

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Estonian edition published by Eesti Raamat

Julia Kissina is a renowned Ukrainian writer and artist living in Berlin and New York City. Her novel SPRINGTIME ON THE MOON is both a memoir of Kyiv and a coming-of-age story. A rebellious and visionary girl grows up in the milieu of the bourgeois Jewish intelligentsia in a high-rise building on the outskirts of Kyiv‘s old town.

“In addition to the surrealism of morbid images, it is the precise, often mercilessly mocking … language that makes “Spring on the Moon” an event… With Julia Kissina‘s novel, Kyiv has become a place that from now on has its place on the mytho-poetic map of Eastern Europe.“
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG

“Springtime on the Moon» is often studiedly amusing, but the attempt to take more than light fiction from her own memories lends Kissina’s book a Nabokovian dimension… As funny as Kaminer and as serious as Nabokov.“
SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG

Anna Starobinets – Icarus Gland – in Spanish

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Spanish translation published by Impedimenta

Anna Starobinets‚ book ICARUS GLAND is a collection of seven exciting stories about a changing reality. In this reality, through a simple little operation, one can become a model family man, but inadvertently lose one’s soul in the process. A long-awaited trip to the capital of the world turns into a road to hell. A failed screenwriter, instead of meeting up with his producer, finds himself at the epicenter of an alien invasion. An awakened gene threatens to create either an angel or a demon out of a human doll. And what goals the authors of a computer game for children are really pursuing is still a mystery.

Roman Senchin – Rain in Paris – in Macedonian

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Macedonian translation published by Makedonika Litera

The sincerity and accuracy of Roman Senchin, the attention to detail in his novel RAIN IN PARIS create the vivid and truthful image of a forty-year-old man and his life in the Russian province. The hero and the reader with him become gradually clear: Without understanding the past, people have no future.

«“Rain in Paris“ is an extraordinarily graceful novel for all the details of everyday life. And with all the acute socio-political content a thoroughly philosophical text.» PAVEL BASINSKI

Dmitri Rus – Play to Live for Germany

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German 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. In Germany Random House gave it a try with just Volume 1 and 2 some time ago but did not reach the target audience. Rights returned to the author.

Now Zweihänder Publishing acquired ebook, print and audiobook rights for the full series and will publish soon in a fresh translation. After the successful launch of another LitRPG series with Zweihänder we are confident that also PLAY TO LIVE will finally find its way to German readers and fans.