Anna Starobinets – Look at Him for Catalan

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Catalan language rights sold to Gata Maula

Anna Starobinets‚ documentary novel LOOK AT HIM is a groundbreaking memoir about the devastating loss of her unborn son to a fatal birth defect. The memoir describes her struggle to find sympathy, community, and psychological support for herself and her family.

The book ignited a firestorm when first published in Russia, prompting both high praise and severe condemnation for the author’s willingness to discuss long-taboo issues of women’s agency over their own bodies.

Viktor Martinovich – Paranoia in Slovak

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Slovak rights sold to Terst

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.“

Maria Galina – Near the War

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Galina’s new title is on the shortlist of Dar Prize 2025

These diary-like notes by Maria Galina are titled NEAR THE WAR because they are not about the war, but about the new everyday life that was caused and created by the war. They are autobiographically rooted painful descriptions of metamorphoses from Russian to Ukrainian, from life in Moscow to Odesa, from old to new communities. This book is not about the aggressors or the chaos they cause, not about who is right and who is wrong. It is about an author‘s return to her city like Odysseus has reached Ithaca again.

Anna Starobinets – Beastly Crime Chronicles Vol 1 in Turkish

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first volume published by Kalila publishers

In Anna Starobinets‚ children’s detective series BEASTLY CRIME CHRONICLES  all the heroes 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

Zaza Burchuladze – Saba Award for MY SONG

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Saba Award 2024 for the book MY SONG

Zaza Burchuladze’s book MY SONG won in the category “Best Essay and Documentary Prose” of the year 2024.

The new narrative non-fiction book MY SONG by Georgian writer Zaza Burchuladze is a “romance”, an ode to the sacred relationship between an artist and a listener. It is filled with the sound of music. The act of reading is like listening “noveli- zed music” switching on the famous soundtracks in our own memory. This book is the search for peace and a piece of homeland that can never be taken away from you.

„This is a divine book about divine music..“
LEVAN BERDZENISHVILI (writer, literary critic, literature professor)

Leonid Yuzefovich – Philhellenes in Serbian

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Serbian translation published by Russika

The twenties of the 19th century. In Greece there is a war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. The revolutionaries have many sympathisers throughout Europe who are willing to voluntarily defend the old culture and fight to preserve the old greatness. This is what they are called: Philhellenes – lovers of the Greeks.

Leonid Yuzefovich’s historical novel PHILHELLENES, told in the form of letters, diary entries and mental conversations of absent heroes, focuses not only on the Philhellenes of the Urals. Numerous people and representatives of different nations and social classes come to word, which paints a multi-faceted picture of a bygone era.

Pavel Lembersky – Odesa is not on the Hudson

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stories about vanished and destroyed Odesa

Odesa, as we know, is currently under attack (almost daily), like so many Ukrainian cities. Pavel Lembersky’s collection of stories ODESA IS NOT ON THE HUDSON is paying tribute to the city rich in world-recognized literary tradition: chatty, irreverent, humorous, exuberant, ironic, whimsical. God knows, the irrepressible Odesans need that vibe in these dark times more than ever. But so does the world at large.

«Imagine Borges writing philosophical conceptual anecdotes using the sparkling language of Isaac Babel. Sometimes the significant parts are located in the breaks between phrases, and one can feel the draft of pain and despair blowing from those gaps which perhaps irony alone can suppress.» ANTON NESTEROV

Leonid Yuzefovich – Hike To Bar-Khoto

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Yasnaya Polyana Award 2024

In Leonid Yuzefovich’s latest and again award winning book, he brings history back to life by again empathizing with the mind of a historically authentic figure. These are the fictional but based on real events memoirs of the Russian officer, Captain Solodovnikov, who served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army in 1912–1914, when the Mongols defended their independence from China. The book intertwines the siege of the Chinese-occupied fortress of Bar-Khoto with love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, the First World War and Solodovnikov’s deportation from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. The hero rethinks his own life and, with it, the fate of a person in a critical epoch.

Aleksei Fedyarov – Sfumato Dead Birds are Flying – for Czech Republic

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Czech translation rights sold to Maraton Publishers

Welcome to Russia 2032. There is peace in the world. Russia, Europe, the United States and China signed a convention with Russia: in exchange for its own security, the West no longer cares how the Russian government treats its citizens under its isolated power and only occasionally checks whether foreign policy agreements are respected. Russia is fenced and the borders are closed.

The hyper-real political landscape of Aleksei Fedyarov’s novel SFUMATO – DEAD BIRDS ARE FLYING is explicitly not post-apocalyptic, but rather develops consistently from today’s political realities.

And Fedyarov knows both sides of the barbed wire by own experience. Lawyer by education he was an investigator for the public prosecutor’s office for ten years, then later as a business man sentenced and sent to a prison camp in the Urals, today a human rights activist and head of the legal department of a Charity Fund that helps Russian prisoners and their families.