Valery Bochkov – political thriller

  new representation

Wiedling Literary Agency is happy to announce the representation of a new author: Valery Bochkov, a Russian artist living in the US.
His first attempts in literature were decorated with the Russian Award 2013, encouraging him to continue his career as an author.

For a long time worldwide readers have been waiting for a contemporary Russian thriller like this:
classic American high-tension meets classic Russian intellectual prose.

Predicting the unpredictable with great insight, Bochkov’s trilogy about the assassination of the President is revealing a straight-forward view of nowadays Russia.

A breath-taking page turner with the plot precisely organized with dynamic pace and action.

Aleksandr Grigorenko – Mebet

  new publication

Grigorenko’s novel about the mythological hero «MEBET»  and his adventures in the Taiga of the far Russian North has been published in Bulgarian translation.

Grigori Kanovich – Devilspel

  new publication

The novel «Die Freuden des Teufels» (Devilspel) by G. Kanovich, translated into German by Franziska Zwerg and recently published by Corso Verlag, has been presented at Leipzig Book Fair.

«This book is strong.» Karl-Markus Gauss.

Grigori Kanovich

   new sale

World English rights for Grigori Kanovich’s novel «Shtetl Romance» have been sold to Noir Press UK.

A marvellous family novel, and a wise and moving piece of literature about the Jewish life in the lost Eastern European Shtetl.

“Kanovich makes us feel and see a world, that has long disappeared.“ – FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

Mirzakarim Norbekov

   new sales

Rights for Norbekov’s mega-bestseller «OPYT DURAKA or How to get rid of your Glasses» have recently been sold for Italian, Spanish and French languages.

Wiedling Literary Agency is now representing the works by MIRZAKARIM NORBEKOV for all world languages.
A full English translation of «OPYT DURAKA or How to get rid of your Glasses» is available for proof reading.

London Book Fair 2017 – the agency’s top titles

  Sukhbat Aflatuni – The Adoration of the Magi

An extraordinary family sage covering Russian history from the tsars in the middle of the 19th century through the revolution and the red terror to beyond the soviet era.

  Mikhail Odnobibl – The Queue

It is like reading and de-coding a religious icon. After a while the structure of the queue and also the architecture of the town with bi-directional movements, upwards and downwards, reminds one of paintings of The Last Judgment with the protagonist wandering through the circles of hell from which there is no escape.

  Leonid Yuzefovich – Winter’s Road

Winner of 2016 National Bestseller Award and Big Book Award. The book was also given the Russian Booker Prize Translation Grant.
In the far east of Siberia, the Yakuts have dared to launch the final uprising against the Red Army. By using this hardly known episode of the Russian Revolution, Yuzefovich is able to portray deeper human motives: the love, passion and individual suffering that are buried in the ideology are revealed and the characters shown to be both oppressor and victim. In the end each individual is responsible for the Russian tragedy.

Aleksandr Grigorenko

  new sales

Rights for Grigorenko’s charming cruel exotic timeless novel «MEBET»  about destiny and humanity on the background of the myths of the Taiga have been sold to the Bulgarian publishing house Labyrinth.

Leonid Yuzefovich

  new sales

Rights for Leonid Yuzefovich’s double award winning non-fiction novel «WINTER’S ROAD» about the last upheavel of the Yakutian people in 1922-23 in far East Siberia have recently been aquired for Bulgarian and Serbian translation.

Olga Slavnikova

   new sales

World English rights for Olga Slavnikova’s novel «IMMORTAL» have been sold to Columbia University Press.
Award winning translator Marian Schwartz will do the translation.

Croatian rights for her novel «2017» have been sold to Sandorf.