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.

Ivan Bunin – short story IDA

new sale

short story IDA has been acquired by Laguna publishers

This short story written 1925 during a sojourn in the Italian Alps will be part of an anthology of Russian short stories in Serbian translation.

Max Maximov – Aelita Award 2021

new award

the aelita (Start) Award 2021 for newcomers

Max Maximov has published already several scifi novels in the best tradition of the Strugatski brothers. The Strugatskis had been the first to receive the Aelita Award back in 1981. So the 40th anniversary of the award was celebrated with an appropriate winner in the START-category for newcomers.

Aleksei Ivanov – Shadows of the Teutons

new title

historical mystical blockbuster and audiobook of the year 2021

The main action of the novel takes place in May 1945 near Pillau in East Prussia (now Baltijsk). But through the events of May 1945, events of the 15th century at Marienburg Castle shine through. Mystically two epochs, two historical catastrophes – the decline of the Teutonic Order and the collapse of Nazi Regime – seem to mirror each other in a strange way.

„Now we have, if not our own Stephen King, at least our own Robert Harris.“ GALINA YUZEFOVICH in MEDUZA

Viktor Remizov – Eternal Frost

new award

Book of the Year in Russia 2021

The great epic novel ETERNAL FROST by Viktor Remizov is set against the background of the construction of the “Great Stalin Railway” on the Arctic Circle in Siberia, on which up to 80,000 prisoners of the GULAG were simultaneously working between 1947 and 1953 when Stalin died. It is one of the most tragic projects of the Stalinist machinery of repression. In 2023 we see the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s death and of the closing of the “Great Stalin Railway”.

„Thanks for the truth. It is the truth without a doubt. We have to remember that. This is how it was.“ LITRES

“This is by far the most interesting sample text I have translated in recent times.“ ANDREW BROMFIELD

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