Aleksei Rakitin – The Dyatlov Pass Incident

   new publication

The German translation of Aleksei Rakitin’s thrilling documentary about the famous DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT has been published by btb/ Random House. The book comes with an epilogue by Oleg Kashin.

This book makes a new attempt to analyse all of the information available up until today about the mysterious deaths of the group of Sverdlovsk tourists on the Dyatlov Pass in the winter of 1959 and to evaluate them for the first time without any of the mystic suppositions that have dogged this unexplained event.

Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 – new authors

    see you at my table 12F, Litag hall 6.3

 

NEW AUTHORS for Frankfurt Book Fair at a glance:

 Pavel Basinski – LOOK AT ME

„Basinski has written a documentary-thriller about the first Russian feminist.“
ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA

   Olga Beshlei – MY WEIRD LOVER FROM THE FSB

Incompetent, vulnerable, cheeky, paranoid, yearning, shy, but also brilliant at self-presentation, and then, embarrassingly open

„Life on the edge, where it hurts and makes one angry. The important things in life that really matter to us.“
VALERIA PUSTOVAYA

 Evgeni Grishkovets – A…a

“There only are two kinds of readers: those who like Grishkovets, and those who have not read him yet.” ECHO MOSKVY

   Viktor Remizov – FREE AND WILD

„This first novel by Viktor Remizov crackles with suspense fit for a movie, complemented by solid characters, spectacular descriptions of nature and perceptive observations on the state of modern Russia.“ WDR

 Natalia Sherba – TIME WIZARDS 

(young adult 13+ fantasy) Over 2 Mio hardcover sold in Russia alone, movie option sold
Sherba creates a completely new world, invents its mechanis and gets away from all the clichés and stereotypes. The world of TIME WIZARDS is full of creatures, magic castles, spells… Apart from a breathtaking plot line, her books bear a very specific moral charge for a younger audience.

   Jan Valetov – BEST AGE TO DIE

(new adult 17+ postapocalypsis)
They quickly learn how to kill, but learning how to love does not seem to be worth the effort anymore.
The unusually cinematic and graphic descriptions of locations and events, but also of atrocities and violence keep the level of suspense high. No wonder the movie option has been sold.

   Oleg Zobern – AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF IESUS CHRIST

„After a while the reader begins to feel that it is not Zobern, but this Iesus himself who is laughing at our stupidity, our stiffness, our stringency, our superstitions, our cowardice and above all our wish to crucify him again and again.“ JURY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AWARD

„A historic novel, much better than Dan Brown.“ SERGEI NIKOLAEVICH (Editor in chief of the magazine SNOB)

The Bunin Estate – legally reconstituted

   new representation

The Wiedling Literary Agency is proud to have been assigned the exclusive representation outside of Russia of Nobel Prize Winner for Literature – Ivan Alekseevich Bunin.

Bunin was the first Russian writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933 „for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing.“

Bunin died in Paris, France in 1953, so his intellectual property is continuously under international copyright protection. Due to historical circumstances during and also after the Cold War, only recently the successors of Bunin’s relatives and rightful heirs could be traced completely and thus The Bunin Estate has now been legally reconstituted.

With publishers outside Russia Wiedling Literary Agency is ready to negotiate licenses for Bunin’s works in translation or to reshape valid license contracts to reflect the rightful ownership of copyright. For all questions concerning translations rights for Bunin’s works including provision of respective legal documents we ask to write to Wiedling Literary Agency and/or The Bunin Estate.

© photo Nobel Foundation Archive

Viktor Remizov

      new representation

We are happy to announce that Viktor Remizov has joined Wiedling Literary Agency. Remizov is an already successful author well-known also outside of Russia with translations published in 6 languages.

„Victor Remizov is not just a traditional prose writer, he is a traditional writer par excellence: intelligent, calculating, comprehensive, slow-paced as a taiga fisherman…“ SVOBODNAYA PRESSA

Pavel Basinski – The secret Life of Liza Dyakonova

   new representation

The agency is proud to represent the new title LOOK AT ME. THE SECRET LIFE OF LIZA DYAKONOVA by Pavel Basinski, one of the most influencial and highly acclaimed literary critics in Russia. His previous book «Leo Tolstoy. Flight from Paradise» brought him first attention from a worldwide audience.

Liza Dyakonova 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. Her life exemplary, her death in 1902 mysterious. The naked body of  the young woman is found on the bank of a mountain stream in the Tyrolean Alps. Is it murder or suicide? Basinski‘s „documentary novel“ attempts to find an explanation for her mysterious death.

„Basinski has written a documentary-thriller about the first Russian feminist.“ ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA

Zaza Burchuladze – Award ceremony Brücke Berlin Preis 2018

   award

The Georgian author Zaza Burchuladze and his translator Natia Mikeladse-Bachsoliani have been elected winners of the BRÜCKE BERLIN AWARD for the novel TOURISTENFRÜHSTÜCK, published 2017 in German by blumenbar.

Next Tuesday September 29 at 7pm the ceremony will take place in Berlin in the Deutsches Theater, Schumannstraße 13.

Reservations for a free ticket for the public discussion panel at 5pm per email to becker@lcb.de

Vladimir Sharov ☦︎

   obituary

After longer severe illness the Russian writer Vladimir Sharov has passed away. Our thoughts are with his widdow, his family and friends.

Some weeks ago a last new novel KINGDOM OF AGAMEMNON has been published in Russian. The novels that made him famous due to the provoking discussion of the entanglement of communism and religion, BEFORE AND DURING and REHEARSALS, are both available in full English translation.