ELKOST International literary agency - Grigory Oster is the guest of the 2012 Prima Vista Festival

Famous Russian children author Grigory Oster is a special guest of the 2012 Tartu International Literary Festival Prima Vista.

His events in the main program of the Festival include:

- Thursday, May 10, at 18.30 - „Exercises for head and tail" – a workshop with GrigoriyOster (Russia) at the café Gaudeamus(University of Tartu Library). Moderated by Olga Einasto; in Russian and Estonian.

- Friday, May 11, at 15.00 - „And what if we do it?" - Grigory Oster meets his young readers at Tartu City Library, Estonia blvd. 8.

- Saturday, May 12, at 12.00 - Cartoons for children and the whole family at Tartu New Theatre. Cartoons written by Grigoriy Oster.

- Monday, May 14, at 12.00 - „Exercises for head and tail" - a workshop with GrigoriyOster (Russia) at the Tartu City Library, Estonia blvd. 8.

- Tuesday, May 15, at 12.00 - „Exercises for head and tail" - a workshop with GrigoriyOster (Russia) at the Foreign LIterature department of Tartu City Library, Liyvalaya st. 40.

http://rus.postimees.ee/834486/multjashnyj-popugaj-privlechet-vnimanie-k-festivalju-prima-vista/

Poison and Honey, a novel by Yuri Buida (2014)

Rights sold: Armenia - ORACLE, Russia - EKSMO, Serbia - GEOPOETIKA

Shortlisted for the 2014 Ivan Belkin literary award

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

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

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Grigory Oster is the guest of the 2012 Prima Vista Festival

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Poison and Honey, a novel by Yuri Buida (2014)

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