ELKOST International literary agency - May 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya in Prague

Czech publisher Paseka Publishers presents Ludmila Ulitskaya´s Daniel Stein, Interpreter as Daniel Stein, překladatel at the 18^th International Book Fair and Literary Festival in Prague, Czech Republic.

During her stay in Prague, Ludmila Ulitskaya will make the following public appearances:

Thursday 17 May

10.00–11.00 Opening Ceremony of Book World Prague

17.00 Meeting with readers, Russian Centre of Science and Culture (Na Zátorce 16, Praha 6).

20.00 Evening Ceremony of Book World Prague (Cafe Slavia)

Friday 18 May

12.00 Book presentation and discussion (ca 50 min., Book World Prague)

17.00 Debate with writers from Ukraine (Anton Santchenko), Bulgaria (Kalin Terziysky), Georgia (Guram Odisharia), Turkey (Ayfer Tunc), Romania (Florin Bican), (ca. 100 min, Book World Prague)

20.00 Bookpresentation and book signing (ca 60 min., Cafe FRA)

Paseka Publishers (general contact): Chopinova 4, 120 00 Prague 2, tel. (+420) 222 710 751, fax (+420) 222 718 886, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1922)

Publishers: Estonia - VARRAK (2004), Finland - TAJO (1964), France - PLON (1964), Germany - KINDLER (1967), SUHRKAMP (1976, 1990), Italy - EINAUDI (1969), MERIDIANO ZERO (2012), Spain - SEIX BARRAL (1971), AKAL (1997), CAPITÁN SWING LIBROS, Switzerland - GLOOR (1970), Turkey - ADAM (1983, 1994), USA/UK - MACQIBBON & KEE (1958), GREENWOOD PRESS (1976)

The book deals with the adventures of a Mexican dreamer Julio Jurenito and his wanderings about Europe along with his seven disciples (Ehrenburg himself is the first disciple and the author-narrator).

The novel includes authentic characters, such as Mayakovski, Picasso, Chaplin, and Tatlin. This is a biting satire of the European postwar civilization. This extraordinarily sneering book is a modernized Candide, covering Soviet Russia and the European West, after the stress of the WWI years.
Its main character Jurenito (he is supposed to be a portrait of the famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera) and...

May 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya in Prague

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

The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1922)