new salesRights for his new double awarded documentary novel WINTER’S ROAD have been recently sold to France/ Noir sur Blanc. Publishers in Poland and China have made offers.
Rights for his historical detective novel KAZAROZA have been sold to China/ Radio Film & TV Press.
new salesAfter the successful start of Galina Shatalova’s NATURAL HEALING in Italian, French and Spanish translations also the rights for her next bestselling book HEALTHY NUTRITION were acquired by Gruppe Macro Editions for Italian and French language.
new saleGerman language rights for the most recent novel REVOLUTION by Viktor Martinovich have been sold to Voland & Quist.
This publisher has already published the two previous novels PARANOIA and MOVA in the wonderful translations by Thomas Weiler, recently nominated for the «Internationaler Literaturpreis» and awarded the «Übersetzerpreis Straelen 2017».
new publicationThe 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.
new salesPolish 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.
new sales and publicationsWithin 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.
new representationThe 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.
new articleRecently 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.
new publicationZakhar 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.
new representationThe 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.