new salePolish language rights for Anna Matveeva’s documentary-thriller THE DYATLOV PASS have been sold to Kobiece.
“Force and brutality are very finely nuanced here against the „feminine“, „contemporary“ part of the novel that forms the „vessel“ containing the opposites „brutal – tender“, „male – female“, „past – present“… a remarkable book!” ALEKSEI IVANOV
new saleWorld English rights for Pavel Basinski’s narrative non-fiction title THE SECRET LIFE OF LIZA DYAKONOVA have been sold to Glagoslav.
1902, Austria, the Tyrolean Alps. The young Russian, Liza Dyakonova, the very first Russian student of law at the Sorbonne University in Paris, interrupted her journey from Paris to Russia to stay with her aunt in Tyrol. During her visit she set off alone for a hike in the mountains and did not return. It is only a month later that the naked body of the young woman is found by a hill farmer on the bank of a mountain stream. Is it murder or suicide?
With great sensitivity, but also with great conviction, Basinski leads us closer to the psyche of this young, brave and spirited intellectual, and to her struggle with the traditionalists in society, her environment and her family. On the one hand brave and radically progressive, on the other tragically trapped by her own circumstances, she had the potential to become a guiding figure of European feminism, if her fate had been known or, alternatively, not completely neglected by the Russian intellectuals. The re-discovery of this exceptional woman may well correct this.
new publicationThe Estonian edition of the mystical vampire thriller THE FOOD SHACK by Aleksei Ivanov has been published by Hea Lugu. This is the very first translation of this work by Ivanov.
Thomas Wiedling at Non/FictionFrom December 5 to 10 Thomas Wiedling will attend Non/Fiction Book Fair. This year will take place at Gostiny Dvor in the centre of Moscow. For a quick contact please text to +7 (985) 584-14-10
See you in Moscow!
new salesAfter previous publications in Chinese, Dutch, French and Lithuanian Aleksei Ivanov’s contemporary novel THE GEOGRAPHER DRUNK THE GLOBE has been sold to Voland/ Italy.
new publicationThe most successful high fantasy series by Nik Perumov is RING OF DARKNESS.
Now the Polish version has been published in 3 volumes in audiobook format.
new salesSeparate audiobook rights for Olga Slavnikova’s novels THE IMMORTAL have been sold to Heraclon/ Canada.
new publicationsVasili Mahanenko’s successful LitRPG-fantasy series THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN in audiobook format not only available in full (7 volumes) in English, but now also Vol. 1+2 in German exclusively at audible.
The German print version is published by Lübbe.
new saleAleksei Ivanov’s mystery thriller THE DOG HEADED has been sold to Voland/ Italy.
One remembers the extremely hot summer when the peat fields around Moscow were on fire. Even above a remote village near a former prison camp in the forest somewhere towards the Volga lies biting opaque smoke. Three Muscovites have been hired to save a rare fresco depicting St. Christopher with a dog’s head for the museum in the abandoned village church…For far too long, the three Muscovites have been thinking of everything as haunting images in the minds of the villagers, who are still socialized by the surveillance state Russia. But their enlightened intellectual view of the world breaks apart piece by piece in contact with this village community, which has degenerated from primitive primal fears to inhumanity.
new publicationAfter having been awarded the Angelus Award for the Polish edition of TALES FROM THE LAST DAYS, Oleg Pavlov’s Polish publisher Noir sur Blanc has now published his book NOTES OF A HOSPITAL RECEPTIONIST, translated into Polish by Wiktor Dluski.