new publication
The final volume METRO 2035 of D. Glukhovsky’s Metro series has been published in Turkish language by Panama/ Ankara together with a new print run of METRO 2033 and METRO 2034.
Mirzakarim Norbekov
new sales
Polish rights have been sold to Studio Astropsychologii for two other works by Mirzakarim Norbekov that had been published in translation so far only in Germany: Energy Shower and A Million Solutions.
Glukhovsky – Metro Universe
new sales and publications
Within the first half of 2017 the agency has concluded six more license contracts for D. Glukhovsky’s spin-off series METRO UNIVERSE for Polish language. Five of those titles have already been published by Insignis Media.
Viktor Martinovich
new representation
The agency proudly announces the wordlwide representation of all works by one of the most famous contemporary Belarusian authors: VIKTOR MARTINOVICH.
From his provocative debut novel PARANOIA – banned from book stores in Belarus – to his mindcrashing Dystopia MOVA up to his recently finished new novel REVOLUTION, Martinovich is – by all means of literature – exploring and analysing human behaviour and conditio humana under autocratic conditions.
»No political novel could be more up-to-date or oppressive.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Most of his novels are published parallel in Belarusian and Russian languages.
Enjoy reading the English edition of Paranoia published by Northwestern University Press.
Igor Eidman – Russian cyber attacks on German Bundestag
new article
Recently another article by Igor Eidman on the danger of Russian cyber attacks during the election period in Germany has been published in the NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG.
Igor Eidman, cousin of the murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, is author of the socio-political book THE PUTIN SYSTEM (Heyne, Germany) presenting the regime in Russia as the pioneer and leader of a new far-right conservative movement. Thanks to his experience in working in elevated Russian political circles Eidman has important insider information allowing him to precisely describe how Putin tries to influence the public opinion in western countries in order to destabilise the political status quo, how he supports far-right organisations throughout the world and how Moscow has become the command centre for a neo-conservative revolution.
Zakhar Prilepin – The Cloister
new publication
Zakhar Prilepin’s award winning contemporary novel OBITEL – THE CLOISTER about the historical Solovki is an allegory for the whole of Russia has been published by VOLAND Italy.
The monastery founded in the 15th century on an archipelago in the White Sea had always served as a prison as well and from 1923 was a so-called “special purpose” camp forming the foundation stone of the Soviet GULAG system. Its uniqueness saw it declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992.
Sergei Loiko – The Flight
new representation
The Agency proudly announces the representation of a new author: SERGEI LOIKO with his outstanding thriller THE FLIGHT, inspired by true events, extensive research and war reporting of the former prize-winning Moscow Los Angeles Times correspondent.
Sergei Alyokhin, a former corrupt Russian cop hiding under a false identity in L.A., believes that he has covered his track sufficiently and invites his wife and daughters, living under false identities in London, to join him for the desired and long awaited family reunion at a luxurious island resort in Thailand. Their flight London-Bangkok perishes with 298 people on board over eastern Ukraine. Alyokhin wants to find the culprits and take his personal revenge not only on the perpetrators but also on those who ordered the heinous crime.
Born in Moscow in 1953 Loiko had been the Moscow correspondent and photographer for the Los Angeles Times for the past twenty-five years, specializing in wars and armed conflicts. Loiko covered the Ukrainian revolution and the subsequent war virtually nonstop from the first day until 2015.
He was awarded one of the highest prizes in American journalism, the Overseas Press Club’s Bob Considine Award, “for its guts, credibility, originality, depth and sophistication of interpretation, and its engaging writing style”, and also the prestigious Los Angeles Times editorial award.
The rights of his previous documentary novel AIRPORT had been sold to 9 countries.
Eduard Kochergin – Christened with Crosses
new publications
Eduard Kochergin’s true story about the flight of a young boy from an orphanage in the Ural mountains back home to Leningrad to find his mother again. CHRISTENED WITH CROSSES are the memoirs of an old man who, as a boy, learnt to find his way between extortionate state control and marauding banditry, the two poles that characterise Russia to this day.
The last 2 out of 7 foreign language editions have been published recently by IDIOOTTI Finland and NOIR SUR BLANC Poland.
Zaza Burchuladze – in Der Spiegel
new canon of literature
In the recent edition of DER SPIEGEL the Georgian author Zaza Burchuladze is seen as one of the writers in exile in Germany who are contributing to a new canon of literature.
«The explosive books of our time are about migration and exile…» (Volker Weidermann)
Mikhail Shishkin – The Capture of Izmail
new publication
One of the earlier novels by Mikhail Shishkin – The Capture of Izmail – has finally been published also in German.
The award winning translator Andreas Tretner has accompanied the printed book not only with a source directory, but also with interesting additional material online about the translation.