Anna Starobinets – Look At Him – for France

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French language rights sold to Actes Sud

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.

Aleksei Ivanov – The Geographer drank the globe – for Spain

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Spanish translation rights sold to Plasson e Bartleboom

In the Russian province of the 90s a young teacher fights with the children of the new generation. He has been assigned to the most rebellious class. The „geography teacher“ and the teenagers, who are ready to break him, first sit in the walls of the classroom, but then outside the walls they together experience an adventure of comradeship and initiation.

„Geographer“ pumps new blood into the channels of emotional perception through literature and lets many readers again – lite- rally as the first time – feel very simple and familiar things: winter, love, wind, trust, lone- liness, the smell of cigarette smoke, the taste of vodka, the headache of a hangover.“ GALINA YUZEFOVICH

Anna Starobinets – Beastly Crime Chronicles series for Netherlands

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Dutch translation rights for the series sold to Azboeka

In Dutch language there already had been the translation of Vol. 1 of Anna Starobinets‚ children’s detective series BEASTLY CRIME CHRONICLES.  Now we are happy to have found a new and newly founded publisher who is enthousiastic about taking over and continuing with the full series.

All the heroes of this book series 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

Lev Danilkin – Gagarin – in Italian

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refresher contract for Italian language rights with Castelvecchi

Polls show that Yuri Gagarin is the No. 1 hero in Russian history of the 20th century. It is all the more surprising that for many years there has not been an appropriate open, objective, biography of the first cosmonaut based on current sources in Russia. The Gagarin biography with the title PASSENGER WITH KIDS by Lev Danilkin is an attempt to close all the gaps in the biography of the „Red Icarus“.

«Gagarin is a myth. The first cosmonaut, icon, toy in the hands of the Soviet govern- ment and journalists, but not a man. Lev Danilkin took up this difficult task – to restore Gagarin‘s human status.» THEORY AND PRACTICE

Dmitri Danilov – Sasha, hello – for Iran

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Persian translation rights sold to Borj Books, imprint of Houpaa Books

Dmitri Danilov’s double award winning novel SASHA, HELLO! is welcoming us to the new Russia. Prisons are now called Combinat, you live like in a luxury hotel. Executions are no longer carried out by executioners. Instead, a warden takes you out for a walk every day through the same hallway, where one fine day you will be torn to pieces by a salvo of an algorithm controlled machine gun. This can happen in three days or in thirty years. As luck would have it. All humane, because you actually don‘t notice anything and can go on living your life as before.

Grigori Kanovich – A Kid for two Pennies in Polish

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Polish language edition published by Fundacja Pogranicze

Grigori Kanovich‘s novel A KID FOR TWO PENNIES has lost none of its relevance even after 30 years. It was written in 1989 and describes Jews living together with Lithuanians, Russians and Germans in the multi-ethnic border area with the German Empire at Nemunas (Memel) before Second World War. Or rather their co-existence or even better the friction and resentment on all sides. With everyday poverty, the problems with the Russian state power and the deep Jewish longing for the „homeland of the grandfathers“.

Lilit Altunyan – Illustrated Children’s books 3+

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Armenian author and illustrator

The agency proudly announces the representation of Armenian author Lilit Altunyan. Her stories reveal universal truths as they speak of identity, self-discovery, purpose and dreams, belonging and emotions. Besides her award winning film projects she has published 3 books so far for children at the age of 3+: THE BLUE FOX, THE GIANT MUSICIAN and THE KING OF DARKNESS. All of them speak about Altunyan’s heartwarming talent to combine illustrations and very few words into a message that can be uncovered not only by children but also by adults, as their multilayer depth unfolds gradually.

Igor Eidman – The Putin System – in Romanian

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Romanian translation published by Editura Prestige

Already 6 years ago in his book THE PUTIN SYSTEM, author Igor Eidman, cousin of the murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, was asking the following questions: Is the whole world about to experience a long period of instability and social and political regression? Is Europe facing the threat of a major war?

This book was (and still is) an SOS from a Russian expert. He has lived through the end of democracy in his own country and he sees the need to warn readers outside Russia of the comparable risks facing their own countries. In a new preface and epilogue the author is now reflecting his own position in the light of the Russian aggression March 2022.

For uncovering an in-house corruption scandal in the early 2010ths, Eidman lost his job and, seeing himself and his family under increased pressure, emigrated to Germany. He lives in Berlin.