ELKOST International literary agency - Elena Kostioukovich's Why Italians Love to Talk about Food is a finalist of 2010 IACP Cookbook Award

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We're glad to announce that Elena Kostioukovich's Why Italians Love to Talk about Food is among the finalists of 2010 IACP Cookbook Award in Food Reference & Technical category!

The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) is a worldwide forum for the development and exchange of information, knowledge, and inspiration within the professional food and beverage community. With nearly 3,000 members from more than 32 countries, this organization of creative and talented professionals is engaged in and committed to excellence in the food industry.

IACP has been at the forefront of expanding opportunities for culinary professionals for over 30 years. World-class members have included the likes of Julia Child, CCP, Anne Willan, CCP, James McNair, Rick Bayless, Shirley O. Corriher, CCP, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, and Jacques Pépin, CCP, to name a few.

For the first time ever, IACP will also confer a "People's Choice" Cookbook Award in 2010. Cast your vote by April 5 HERE: http://www.iacp.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=889

Kukotsky Case, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2001)

Penne Prize (2006, Italy)
Russian Booker Prize 2001

Right sold to: Albania - OMSCA, Bulgaria - COLIBRI, China - LIJIANG PUBLISHING, Beijing October Art & Literature Publishing House, Czech Repuiblic - PASEKA, Denmark - HOVEDLAND OG BOGAN, Estonia - TANAPAEV, France - GALLIMARD, Georgia - AZRI, Germany - VOLK UND WELT (LUCHTENHAND LUEBBE), Japan - GUNZOSHA, Korea - DULNYOUK PUBLISHING, The Netherlands - DE GEUS, Hungary - EUROPE, Italy - FRASSINELLI, Lithuania - JOTEMA, Macedonia - ANTOLOG, Norway - BAZAR, Poland - PHILIP WILSON, Portugal - RELÓGIO D’ÁGUA, Romania - HUMANITAS FICTION, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - Filip Višnjić, ARHIPELAG, USA - Northwestern University Press

Big part of her life Ulitskaya has been closely connected to biological schience, though a twist of life took her in another direction. Her years devoted to studying genetics and medicine have made a considerable impact on her...

CASE OF ENGINEER TOWN, 2008

Rights sold: Russia – Chronicler

A nomad city of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol Empire (the map of which is just identical to a map of the Russian Empire), appears suddenly in the beginning of XVIII century in the area of Novocherkassk City in the Province of Don Cossack Voisko. The city does not fit into the picture of the real world; it moves every day a couple kilometers from the point it was seen before; Mongol Emperor Tughe, the ruler of the city, knows nothing about the existence of Russian Emperor Alexander (who in turn has never heard of Tughe).

Otroshenko creates a reality in which the relation between incidents, characters, and setting could not be based upon or justified by laws of nature or their normal acceptance by human mentality.

Elena Kostioukovich's Why Italians Love to Talk about Food is a finalist of 2010 IACP Cookbook Award - 04/03/2010

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Kukotsky Case, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2001)

CASE OF ENGINEER TOWN, 2008