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Serbian translation rights sold to 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.

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the political biography by Serhii Rudenko

We proudly announce that Serhii Rudenko’s political biography, the only one written by a Ukrainian author, has now hit the 25 in the number of sold languages.

Confirmed sales of rights, many of them already published:
ALBANIAN /FAN NOLI
CZECH / KNIHA ZLIN
DANISH/ WORD PUBLISHING
DUTCH / ATLAS-CONTACT
ENGLISH (WORLD)/ POLITY BOOKS
ESTONIAN / TÄNAPÄEV
FINNISH / TAMMI
GEORGIAN / SIESTA
GERMAN / HANSER
HUNGARIAN / HELIKON
ICELAND/ UTGAFAN
ITALIAN / NUTRIMENTI
JAPANESE / PHP INSTITUTE INC.
LATVIAN/ LATVIAS MEDIJ
LITHUANIAN / ALMA LITTERA
MONGOLIAN/ MIRNOM
NORTHERN MACEDONIAN / SHKUPI
NORWEGIAN / GYLDENDAL
POLISH / POZNANSKIE
PORTUGUESE / CASA DAS LETRAS
ROMANIAN / EDITURA ART
SLOVAK / LINDENI
SLOVENIA/ UCILA INTERNATIONAL
SPANISH / EDITORIAL PINOLIA
SWEDISH/ WORD PUBLISHING

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Spanish edition has been published by Gruppo Macro

EXPERIENCE OF A FOOL OR HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR GLASSES is the most successful self-help book by Mirzakarim Norbekov. After Italian and French the publishing house Gruppo Macro has now published also the Spanish translation.

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Polish language rights for 2 volumes of the series sold to Insignis

Kyiv has been considered not only the centre of the Christian orthodox faith but also the witches’ capital since time immemorial. Many Russian-Ukrainian artists (Mikhail Vrubel), authors (Mikhail Bulgakov) and musicians (Modest Mussorgsky) have drawn on this tradition. The settings are all so authentic that the series WITCHES OF KYIV by Lada Luzina can almost be read as an alternative guide book. With a detailed portrait of both contemporary and historical Kyiv the author tempts the reader into a world where reality is hardly distinguishable from the phantastic plot.

In this book a real demon has returned to Kyiv and none other than the three witches are able to protect the town from his curse and from a third murder. Wishful thinking when the author started to write the series, but already 15 years ago the young generation in Ukraine and especially in the big cities was full of positive plans, dreams and wishes for their own future free of old demons.

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Estonian language rights sold to Eesti Ramaat

Pavel Belyanski’s novel GRANDMA DID NOT LOVE TO DIE is a cruel, beautiful, openly funny and truthfully sad family saga over three generations. All their lives they strive for personal happiness in their home, but there has never been real love. Each chapter here is a work of its own, a piece of life, an ironic, sad and powerful story. Nestled together, they weave into a magnificent canvas of the story of the residents of a mining village in Eastern Ukraine.

Pavel Belyanski has joined Ukraine forces at the moment to defend his country against Russian aggressors.

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refresher contracts for Polish editions

The Polish publisher Janusz Nawrocki has published 5 books so far by Mirzakarim Norbekov and keeps on selling them with ongoing success.

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German edition published by dtv, Hungarian edition published by Helikon

On February 24, 2022, the Russian army launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The city of Kharkiv quickly comes under heavy fire. Hundreds of thousands of people flee. The Ukrainian writer Sergey Gerasimov and his wife together with several cats remain in the embattled frontline town. Soon there will be a lack of clean water, food and medical infrastructure. The thermometers show high sub-zero temperatures, people are freezing. Gerasimov begins to write about the absurdity of everyday life in war. The result is a stirring testimony, an appeal for peace and understanding and thus a perfect book for memorial day of beginning of war in February every year.

new genre

special selection of best Russian horror

The agency is proud to open another important section on the SCIFI-FANTASY WEBSITE presenting a special selection of best works in the genre of HORROR .

Among the authors you will find renown names like ANNA STAROBINETS, the «Queen of Russian Horror», another rising star and female «Master of Horror» DARYA BOBYLEVA, 3 mystical horror novels by living classic super star ALEKSEI IVANOV who is writing in several genres, 2 scifi novels with horror elements by MAX MAXIMOV who received the Aelita and the Strugatski Awards in 2021, a very slavic horror novel by ANDREI RUBANOV and last but not least a Best-of from the most successful Russian horror series MOST SCARY BOOK.which was launched some years ago by the «Godfather of Russian Horror» M.S. PARFENOV.

All authors will be introduced with their titles here in single posts on this news blog in the near future. But publishers should not be afraid to already now check the links above and send requests for proof reading.

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Estonian translation of  published by Postimees

This beautiful hardcover edition of the famous collection of short stories DARK ALLEYS by Ivan Bunin is the third Western edition within 3 years.

The first russian Nobel Prize winner for literature has a come back because not only Russian readers feel that a next heavy political turning point has hit the world which is hundred years after Bunin’s view on the other turning point in history – the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Ukraine family saga about three generations in Donbass

Pavel Belyanski was born in 1977 in a family of military servants in the village of Shakhta No. 9, Lugansk region. Under the pen name „Pashtet“ he actively wrote in samizdat and became the winner of various competitions. Right now he is defending his country as a volunteer soldier for Ukraine. Belyanski is married and has two children.

His novel GRANDMA DID NOT LOVE TO DIE is a cruel, beautiful, openly funny and truthfully sad family saga over three generations. All their lives they strive for personal happiness in their home, but there has never been real love. Each chapter here is a work of its own, a piece of life, an ironic, sad and powerful story. Nestled together, they weave into a magnificent canvas of the story of the residents of a mining village in Eastern Ukraine.

When grandma is on her deathbed once again, her husband Petro admits that he never loved her. Whereupon she jumps up alive and leaves the house angrily… Grandmother Anya always says: Don‘t worry, I‘m not going to die, God doesn‘t want me. She feels sinful because she has denied her firstborn all her life. In the end she dies without seeing him again.