new publicationsThere are 2 recent publications of works by Roman Senchin with wonderful covers outside and wonderful translations inside.
WHAT DO YOU WANT? – QU’EST-CE QUE VOUL VOULEZ? published by Noir sur Blanc/ France, translation by Maud Mabillard.
THE ELTYSHEVS – L’ULTIMO DEGLI ELYSHEV published by Fazi Editore/ Italy, translation by Claudia Zonghetti.
new saleArabic language rights for Olga Slavnikova’s novel THE LIGHTHEAD have been sold to Al Arabi Publishers Egypt.
So all in all Olga Slavnikova’s works are sold now to 18 foreign languages.
new representationIncompetent, vulnerable, cheeky, paranoid, yearning, shy, but also brilliant at self-presentation, and then, embarrassingly open; Olga Beshlei wonders why it is so difficult these days for a likeable and open-minded young woman simply to be happy.
It is not at all difficult for Beshleis’s heroine to find emancipated soulmates in any Western city who have suffered similarly. Except perhaps the panic about trying to hide a huge pink dildo before a house search by the secret service FSB should be considerably less outside Russia.
„Everyone in the FSB will read it and roll over laughing.“ ALEKSANDR LYCHAGIN
new publicationsTranslations of Zakhar Prilepin’s big historical novel OBITEL – THE CLOISTER have been published by another 3 foreign publishers:
Actes Sud/ France
Cappelendamm/ Norway
Cankarjeva/ Slovenia
new saleFrench translation rights for Aleksei Slapovski’s novel PERVOE VTOROE PRISHESTVIE – FIRST SECOND COMING have been sold to Gingko.
new publicationsTranslations of Aleksander Ilichevski’s novel MATISS have been published in Serbian and Macedonian translations.
His latest book, a diary of his first year in Israel, had been published already in fall 2017 by Matthes&Seitz/ Germany.
new publicationsWith A MILLION SOLUTIONS published in Poland by Studio Astropsychologii, there are now 4 titles by Mirzakarim Norbekov available in Polish translation.
Also a totally new English translation of Norbekov’s famous HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR GLASSES has been published with amazon, available as paperback and ebook.
author liveWithin the frames of the French-Russian Year of Language and Literature Anna Matveeva has been invited to France to meet with her readers.
April 4, she will be in Paris at the Russian Centre of Culture. And then from April 6-8, she will attend the 21. Fêtes du Livre in Autun.
new representationThe AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF IESUS CHRIST in the guise of a fictional novel. The language is simple and clear, the depiction nothing but scandalous, the message far more than provocative.
Having received the NOS Award in 2017, Oleg Zobern’s new novel has already been nominated for the National Bestseller Award 2018.
«If we immerse ourselves too much in the text, we may identify ourselves too much with the hero, and run the risk that whenever the real Christ knocks on the door of the soul of humanity no-one will open up because His place has already been taken by this double.»
ANNA SKVORTSOVA in AKHILLA
«Of all the „alternative“ interpretations of the life of Christ, this novel, in my opinion, comes second only to Bulgakov’s „Master and Margerita“, which is, however, much more fragmentary… The Iesus in Zobern’s „Autobiography“ is an icon of the antichrist.»
ARCHPRIEST VSEVOLOD CHAPLIN (Former adviser to the Russian Patriarch Kirill)
See full expo here.
new saleTranslation rights for a second novel by Grigori Kanovich have been acquired by Noir Press/ UK – DEVILSPEL.
The novel is set during the tragic few weeks in June-July 1941, when the German army within a few days occupied Lithuania. 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.
The English edition of Kanovich’s other famous novel SHTETL ROMANCE has been published right in time for London Book Fair 2018 where the Baltics will be market focus.