ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya wins a major South Korean literary award

It was announced today that Ludmila Ulitskaya became a winner of the 2012 Park Kyung-ni Prize, a global literary award established in 2011 to honor the spirit of the late Korean novelist Park Kyung-ni. For reference, the other 2012 finalists were US American author, poet, and activist Alice Walker, British Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie, and Russian writer Vladimir Makanin.

Park Kyung-ni (or Pak Kyong Ni) (1926-2008) was a prominent South Korean novelist regarded as one of the most famous and respected writers in South Korea. Park opened Toji Culture Center on the spot of her original home in Wonju, Gangwon Province, in 1999, and served as a chairperson of the board of trustees of the Toji Culture Foundation established in 1996.

Why Italians Love to Talk about Food, by Elena Kostioukovitch (2006, NF)

2010 IACP Cookbook Award Finalist
Chiavari Literary Prize 2007 Italy
Bancarella (cucina) Award 2007 Italy
Hospitality Prize of the Restaurateurs & Hoteliers Federation 2006 Russia

Rights sold: Australia - PAN MACMILLAN, Bulgaria - POCKET MEDIA, Estonia - TANAPAEV, China - WEALTH PRESS (traditional chinese), BEIJING QIZHENGUAN MEDIA (simplified chinese), Germany - FISCHER VERLAG, Italy - SPERLING & KUPFER, ODOYA, Korea - RANDOM HOUSE KOREA, Latvia - JANIS ROZE, Macedonia - ANTOLOG, Poland - ALBATROS, Russia - EKSMO, SLOVO, OGI, Serbia - PAIDEIA, Spain - TUSQUETS, UK - DUCKWORTH, Ukraine - FOLIO, USA - FARRAR, STRAUS and GIROUX

Why Italians Love to Talk about Food with a preface by Umberto Eco is a fascinating mix of history, culture, language and cuisine. To illustrate the synergy of these elements, the book presents chapters on each of Italy’s 20 very diverse regions, alternating with chapters on general themes such...

Body of the Soul, collected stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2019)

Rights sold: Croatia - FRAKTURA, Finland - SILTALA, France - GALLIMARD, Germany - HANSER, Greece - AGRA, Hungary - MAGVETO, Italy - LA NAVE DI TESEO, Serbia - ARHIPELAG, Slovenia - SLOVART, Russia - AST, World English - Yale University Press (Margellos)

Ulitskaya's new collection was subtitled by the author as 'borderline' short stories. In all cultures and religions, the very concept of borderline, of boundary, of some kind of restriction is inherent for one's consciousness and life experience. Over a lifetime, people constantly deal with multiple limitations, internal or external, real or imagined. These boundaries can “expand”, “be effaced”, “crossed”, “demand respect”, some of them we set for ourselves, and others are set by states, societies, or traditions. It is philosophical and humanistic interpretation of this concept that Ulitskaya writes about in her book.

The book feature two cycles of short stories. In the first one, My Lady-Friends, the...

Ludmila Ulitskaya wins a major South Korean literary award - 28/09/2012

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Why Italians Love to Talk about Food, by Elena Kostioukovitch (2006, NF)

Body of the Soul, collected stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2019)