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.

Children of the Volga, a novel by Guzel Yakhina (2018)

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8th Lu Xun Literature Award (2022, China)
Meilleur livre étranger 2021 (France)
Finalist of the Prix Médicis 2021 (France)
Longlisted for the European Literature Prize 2021 (Netherlands)
Winner of the 2020 Georg Dehio-Buchpreis (Germany)
Winner of THE GRAND PRIZE IVO ANDRIĆ 2019 (Serbia)
Winner of the 2019 Big Book Award (Russia, third prize)
Winner of the 2018 Made In Russia award by SNOB project (Russia)

Rights sold: Azerbaijan - QUANUN, Bulgaria - COLIBRI, China - Beijing Publishing Group, Croatia - HENA, Czech Republic - PROSTOR, France - NOIR SUR BLANC, Germany - AUFBAU, Hungary - HELICON, Iran - NILOOFAR, Italy - SALANI, S.Korea - EUNHAENG NAMU PUBLISHING, Lithuania - ALMA LITTERA, Macedonia - ANTOLOG, Netherlands - QUERIDO, Poland - NOIR SUR BLANC, Romania...

A Gloom Descends Upon the Ancient Steps, a novel by Alexander Chudakov (2000)

Rights sold: France - Christian Bourgois (2003), Macedonia - ANTOLOG, Poland - von Borowiecky, Spain - AUTOMATICA, Russia – Olma Press (2001), Vremya (2011), World English rights - Northwestern University Press

2001 RUSSIAN BOOKER Award nominee
2011 RUSSIAN BOOKER OF THE DECADE Awared winner

Set in Chebachinsk, a fictitious town in Northern Kazakhstan inhabited by political exiles, its panoramic narrative focuses on the relationship between Anton, a Moscow historian of the vital “1960s generation,” and his grandfather, a titan of physical and intellectual rigor from a hardy line of Vilnius clerics. The lucid and forthright prose style was described by critics as “clear, rich, glowing with good-natured humor, and free”. The novel’s overall effect is uplifting despite its unflinching presentation of the human toll of Stalinism. Chudakov told Radio Russia that his concern was to show that despite “all that,” Russia in this period actually continued...

May 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya in Prague

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Children of the Volga, a novel by Guzel Yakhina (2018)

A Gloom Descends Upon the Ancient Steps, a novel by Alexander Chudakov (2000)