http://www.litcologne.de/en/participants/detail/pers/ulitzkaja-ljudmila/
The end of the "Reds"? - Lyudmila Ulitskaya meets Svetlana Alexievich
11.03.2013 | Monday | 19:30 Uhr | Brunosaal
Klettenberggürtel 65, 50939 Köln
Featured titles
The Fifth Kingdom, a novel by Yuri Buida (2018)
Rights sold: Russia - AST
A crime story set in fictionalized Moscow in 1622, The Fifth Kingdom is "an exciting, soul-searching, instructive, and amusing story in twelve chapters - according to the number of gates of the Heavenly City - featuring secret agents of the Kremlin, Scottish Guards, walking dead, foreign spies, enchanting women, hired assassins, alchemists, freethinkers, kings, monks, vampires, boyars, bastards, aeronauts, drunken witches, as well as one marble Venus and the Great Tree."
Read moreJust the Plague, a screenplay by Ludmila Ulitskaya (1988, 2020)
Rights sold: France - GALLIMARD, Germany - HANSER, Hungary - MAGVETO, Italy - LA NAVE DI TESEO, Iran - HOUPAA BOOKS, Poland - WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE, Romania - HUMANITAS, Russia - AST, Sweden - ERSATZ, World English - GRANTA
The EBRD Literature Prize 2022 Shortlist
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s novelized screenplay Just the Plague, written in 1988 and first published in 2020, is based on real-life events when an epidemic of pneumonic plague was averted in December 1939. Three people died, but it could have claimed many more lives. Ostensibly about a medical plague, the real plague is the Stalinist police state which, with its trials, executions and banishments, had got completely out of hand. This is a hard-hitting, precise and powerful evocation of the time, with obvious relevance to the present state of Russia and the present pandemic.
The manuscript was politically unpublishable for many years, and it was only when sorting through her...
Read more