Sergii Rudenko – Battle for Kyiv – in Finnish

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Finnish translation published by Tammi

In February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine: the taking of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was a declared main goal of the “special operation”. Both the seat of government and the base of President Zelenskyi, Putin‘s number one enemy, are in Kyiv. Whoever controls Kyiv controls Ukraine. The unexpectedly successful defense of the capital and the expulsion of the Russian occupiers from the surrounding settlements in the greater Kyiv area was a crucial turning point in the course of the war.

Sergii Rudenko, the author of a political biography about Ukrainian President Zelenskyi (sold to 25 languages), is giving a close and personal insight in his new book BATTLE FOR KYIV about this incredible spirit of resistance, which neither Putin‘s generals nor the Western world had counted on and which made it clear that the war in Ukraine and the battle for Kyiv is also a battle for freedom and self-determination in Europe. Only with the liberation of the villages around Kyiv and the gruesome discoveries of Bucha and Irpin would the Western world finally realize that this is also a battle to defend human dignity.

Anna Starobinets – Vixen Hill for Catalan

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Catalan language rights sold to Mai Més Llibres

The newest novel VIXEN HILL by Anna Starobinets is a horror thriller in the genre of mystic realism takes. The action takes place in the Far East, on the border of the Soviet Union and Manchuria (China) in 1945, right after the end of World War II and the Japanese occupation of the region. The novel combi- nes the history of the USSR, Chinese mythology, Japanese genetic engineering and Siberian shamanism.

«Starobinets doesn‘t let the reader relax for a minute as she manages to keep up the hellish pace over seven hundred and something pages.» MEDUZA (Galina Yuzefovich)

Julia Kissina – Springtime on the Moon – for Estonia

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Estonian translation rights sold to 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

Igor Eidman – The Putin System – in Polish

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Polish language edition published by Harde

Already 6 years ago in his book THE PUTIN SYSTEM, author Igor Eidman, cousin of the murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, was asking the following questions: Is the whole world about to experience a long period of instability and social and political regression? Is Europe facing the threat of a major war?

This book was (and still is) an SOS from a Russian expert. He has lived through the end of democracy in his own country and he sees the need to warn readers outside Russia of the comparable risks facing their own countries. In a new preface and epilogue the author is now reflecting the Russian aggression March 2022.

For uncovering an in-house corruption scandal in the early 2010ths, Eidman lost his job and, seeing himself and his family under increased pressure, emigrated to Germany. He lives in Berlin.

Roman Senchin – The Eltyshevs – in Italian

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«The Eltyshevs» refreshed with Fazi Editore/ Italy

THE ELTYSHEVS – L’ULTIMO DEGLI ELYSHEV published by Fazi Editore/ Italy in the translation by Claudia Zonghetti is probably Roman Senchin’s most famous novel.

Nikolai Eltyshev is a policeman on duty at a station with a sobering-up cell, the mother Valentina works as a librarian, her youngest son is in prison and the older one is just killing time at home. A completely normal Russian civil servant family. The Eltyshev’s village is THE village, provincial Russia with all of its brutal present day reality. The ruins of a past era, the breakdown of which Putin called the «greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century».

Oleg Pavlov – 2 novels refreshed – in French

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refreshers for TRILOGY and NOTES with Noir sur Blanc/ France

Oleg Pavlov’s famous trilogy TALES FROM THE LAST DAYS is set at the end of the era of the Soviet Union, but they do paint a fundamental picture of the situation in the Russian army, a situation that has scarcely improved since the time of the Soviet Union as one can see after one year war against Ukraine.

Oleg Pavlov’s NOTES OF A HOSPITAL RECEPTIONIST is the essence of the writer’s personal experiences from the times he has been working as a receptionist in a Moscow hospital, between 1994 and 1997. Published as a book nearly sixteen years later, this diary became a lyrical epic masterpiece, earning recognition and praise of both critics and readers. The book was awarded the Solzhenitsyn Prize.

Pavlov has passed away in 2018.

Disbelief – 100 Russophone Anti-War Poems

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Anti-War Poems edited by Julia Nemirovskaya

Putin’s war in Ukraine has been met by outrage and disbelief around the world. Since the start of the war, writers in Russia, Ukraine and the Russian diaspora have been expressing their opposition to the invasion. An international group of poets and translators have been collecting these poems as the Kopilka project.

DISBELIEF presents 100 of the most moving and hard-hitting of these poems by poets including Polina Barskova, Vladimir Druk, Tatiana Voltskaya, Mikhail Aizenberg and Tatiana Shcherbina. The collection has been edited by Julia Nemirovskaya.

“Captures the initial shock of the invasion, and the rage, shame, lament and prayer.“ TLS

“An astonishing book… a Noah’s Ark of an enterprise… These poems needed to be written, and they need to be read too.“ EAST-WEST REVIEW