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     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.

  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)

   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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

   new sale

   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.

  new reviews

The French translation of Aleksei Nikitin’s novel «VICTORY PARK», published by Noir sur Blanc, has received first good reviews in Le Temps and in EaN.

  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.