ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya in Grenoble, France, May 28, 2016

Rencontre avec Ludmila Oulitskaïa, un écrivain phare de sa génération, naît en 1943, au sud de l'Oural, où ses parents se sont réfugiés pendant la guerre.

Elle grandit à Moscou et fait des études de biologie à l'université, puis se consacre à l'écriture pour la radio et le théâtre.

Son oeuvre, traduite en plus de 30 langues, se fait l’écho du renouveau de la littérature russe, notamment en Europe où elle connait un succès considérable. Son roman Sonietchka (Gallimard) a reçu le Prix Médicis étranger en 1996. Auteure engagée, la romancière russe ne renie pas l'appellation, elle qui n'a pas applaudi quand la Crimée a été annexée, et dont le dernier roman Le chapiteau vert (Gallimard, 2015) rend hommage aux dissidents de l'époque soviétique. Par ailleurs, elle est visée dans son pays par une enquête pour «propagande homosexuelle» en tant qu'éditrice d’une série de livres pour enfants qui traite des traditions familiales dans le monde.

En partenariat avec la Villa Gillet et la Librairie Le Square, dans le cadre des 10ème Assises internationales du roman.

Samedi 28 mai 2016 à 17h

Bibliothèque Centre Ville
10 Rue de la République
04 76 54 57 97

http://www.bm-grenoble.fr/TPL_CODE/TPL_AGENDA/PAR_TPL_IDENTIFIANT/6781/688-agenda.htm

Sofichka, a novel by Fazil Iskander (1997)

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The novella is a third-person, realistic narrative describing the life story of the Abkhazian woman named Sofichka. Sofichka falls in love with the young Rouf, who is half Abkhazian and half Turkish. Sofichka's relatives scorn Rouf, but Sofichka marries him despite the family's opposition. She is a good wife and loves her husband dearly, but Rouf is hated by her kin, and her brother Nuri kills him. Sofichka refuses all advances and does not remarry, remaining true to her husband into old age. Moreover, she repudiates her brother Nuri who, time and again, begs her for forgiveness. In the end, she forgives Nuri but cannot forgive herself. She becomes depressed, believing that she has betrayed her husband, and then becomes ill, and dies. Like most of Iskander's early narratives 'Sofichka' is set in the environs of Chegem. The customs and the lore of the people there have...

Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness, edited by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2013, NF)

Rights sol to: Russia - AST, Poland - ŚWIAT KSIĄŻKI

In 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya launched the major documentary project “After the Great Victory,” for which people who were children between 1945 and 1953 were invited to send in their childhood memories. Work that Ulitskaya selected was published by AST in 2013 in the collection “Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness” with Ulitskaya’s preface and comments.

This book is yet another project in social portraiture by Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Its goal is to restore historical memory in Russia, a country burned many times over and still being burned. Ulitskaya chooses the relatively rare genre of folk memoir – the stories and witness accounts of “little people”. Written quite subjectively and without artifice, together they create the magical effect of compound vision, where space and the objects in it are simultaneously seen from all sides. Besides these mini-memoirs, the book also contains eighteen forewords...

Ludmila Ulitskaya in Grenoble, France, May 28, 2016

Ludmila Oulitskaïa

Rencontre avec Ludmila Oulitskaïa, un écrivain phare de sa génération, naît en 1943, au sud de l'Oural, où ses parents se sont réfugiés pendant la guerre.

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Sofichka, a novel by Fazil Iskander (1997)

Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness, edited by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2013, NF)