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Romanian language rights sold to Editura Litera

The twenties of the 19th century. Greece is fighting for independence from the Ottoman Empire. The revolutionaries have many sympathizers throughout Europe who are willing to voluntarily defend the old culture and fight to preserve the old greatness. That is how they are called: Philhellenes – lovers of the Greeks.

After WINTER ROAD, his documentary novel about the last battle of the Russian Revolution (7 languages sold), Leonid Yuzefovich dedicated his talent for narrative non-fiction to another historical war where (not only) Russians were fighting on foreign territory: PHILHELLENES.

“Yuzefovich writes with subtle irony, detailed historical knowledge and a great feeling for language – a literary phenomenon!“
KNIZHNOE OBOZRENIE

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Greek stage rights have been sold to National Theatre of Greece

After several highly acclaimed literary novels the play THE MAN FROM PODOLSK has made Dmitri Danilov famous also among the theatre audience. The first quality production by the National Theatre of Greece in Athens for the season 2022-23 will be directed by George Koutlis.

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Serbian language rights have been sold to Sluzhbeni Glasnik

THE LOOP is a new collection of short prose by Roman Senchin.

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German language rights have been sold to Zweihänder Verlag

REALM OF ARKON is the debut series by G. Akella. After becoming super successfull in English on amazon and also in the audiobook version on audible, now German rights to the full series of 9 volumes have been sold to Zweihänder Verlag.

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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)

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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

 

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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.

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The Estonian translation has been published by Postimees

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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.

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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.