KRYAKK 2 – Aleksandr Grigorenko

   stories from Siberia

Aleksandr Grigorenko has spent practically his whole life in the depths of Siberia. He lives near Krasnoyarsk working as a journalist. Today he gave me a tour in and around Krasnoyarsk – with lots of stories behind it.

In both his novels MEBET and ILGET the author is asking the old questions about existence, happiness and the loneliness of man. His modern magical realism with versatile heroes who challenge their destiny, are based on the rituals of the Nenets and Evenks people of the far north of Krasnoyarsk region, and the mystical beliefs which shape their daily lives.

KRYAKK – Krasnoyarsk Book Fair 2018

   Wiedling Literary Agency goes Siberia

For the first time – finally – I visited the famous KRYAKK (Krasnoyarskaya Yarmarka Kniznoi Kultury) where I took this photo on the official opening. This book fair was initiated and is mainly sponsored by the Prokhorov foundation, so it was of course Irina Prokhorova welcoming all guests. 5 days full of interesting events, discussions, readings for an enthusiastic Siberian audience.

Soon more to follow from Siberia. Yours Thomas Wiedling

Olga Slavnikova – Awards for new novel THE JUMP

   awards

The new novel THE JUMP by Olga Slavnikova has greatest response among Russian award Jurys in 2018:

Big Book Award shortlist (winner will be announced Dec 4)
Yasnaya Polyana Award
Book of the Year (Moscow International Book Fair)
National Bestseller Award shortlist

Neither idyllic nor tragic, the novel has no contradicting truth and lies, but instead illustrates the clash of many different truths meeting on the solid ground of harsh reality in nowadays Russia.

Natalia Sherba – Time Wizards

   new representation

We are very excited about a new author with several series in the agency’s fantasy portfolio for young adult readers:  Natalia Sherba.

Her most famous series is TIME WIZARDS with over 2 Mio hardcover sold in Russia alone and the 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. And with authentically thrilling martial arts scenes, the author herself having long been engaged in Wushu (martial arts), successfully performing at the competitions on all-round external styles with long fist, pole, short sword and straight sword.

 

Jan Valetov – Best Age to Die

   new representation

Jan Valetov has seven books published, some as multi-volume series, of which several have achieved bestseller status and been awarded prizes. One of his books has been adapted forRussian television. A movie option has been sold for BEST AGE TO DIE.

A virus has escaped from a military laboratory and has quickly swept through the globalized world before the antiviral drug was available. The virus was developed for use in war to incapacitate all enemy soldiers. Within a few weeks everyone over the age of 18 begins to age rapidly and dies. All adults in the world are wiped out. The inexperienced children and adolescents fight a pointless and bloody battle for briefsurvival. They quickly learn how to kill, but learning how to love does not seem to be worth the effort anymore.

New Adult 17+

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)