ELKOST International literary agency - World premier of the dramatic production by St.Petersburg Theater of Satire based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR took place in Poland

http://www.konfrontacje.pl/2008/en/s-daniel.html

During the 13th International theater festival KONFRONTATIONS (October 8-12, 2008) in Lublin, Poland, the St.Petersburg Theater of Satire on Vasilyevsky Island presented its new 140-minute-long dramatic production based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's bestselling novel DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR. This first stage version of Ulitskaya's title is directed by famous Polish director Andrzej Bubień.

Now this production is on Theatre of Satire's fixed repertoire: http://www.satira.spb.ru/repertoir/shtain.htm

Here are the poster and some photos of the production:

A Gipsy Fortune, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1991)

Rights sold: Germany - Volk und Welt, France – Rocher, Italy - ISBN, Yugoslavia - Rad, Spain - Lumen

"A Gipsy Fortune" is the masterful first-person narrative of a poetic love story between a young half-Gipsy woman Sabina grown up in a Tzigane village Karagmeth adjacent to a small Moldavian town Achillea located on the bank of Danube, and a local talented artist Bogdan suffering a heavy form of maniacal-depressive psychosis in the Soviet Union of the post-WWII period.

Le Bonheur tsigane raconte une âme irréductible à l'embrigadement, la découverte par un regard naïf et perspicace de mondes inconnus: celui, exotique, de la Moldavie où se côtoient Roumains, Russes, Tsiganes, artisans et paysans dont les traditions et les aspirations restent infiniment étrangères au communisme imposé par le régime soviétique; celui, implacable, des tribus tsiganes; celui, hallucinant, de l'incarcération psychiatrique. Le Bonheur tsigane c'est, par antiphrase, la malchance collant au destin...

In Love with a Pencil, essays by Sasha Okun (NF)

Rights sold: Russia - SLOVO

The book was created as a textbook on pencil drawing techniques for beginners and professionals, but it is in fact something much more broad and interesting than just a manual on drawing. It is rather a manual on artistic perception of reality.

"All great masters of the past regardless of their main craft, be it sculpture or painting, were great draftsmen: Rubens, Rembrandt, Matisse, Picasso, Moore, Rodin... Drawing is the foundation, the cornerstone of any visual art. There's an endless amount of books and manuals about the art of drawing. Among them, there are bad, good, and very good ones. The question is, why write yet one more? The fact is that regardless of their quality, all of these books answer the question "how"? Some of them are even entitled "How to draw a portrait (landscape, model, still life, hands, etc.)." However, in my humble opinion...

World premier of the dramatic production by St.Petersburg Theater of Satire based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR took place in Poland

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A Gipsy Fortune, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1991)

In Love with a Pencil, essays by Sasha Okun (NF)