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Today, on March 6, 2013, Fazil Iskander celebrates his 84th birthday. As it was announced today, the Russian PEN has nominated Fazil Iskander for the 2013 Nobel PRize in LIterature.
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Sonechka, a novella by Ludmila Ulitskaya (1995)
Prix Médicis (1996, France)
Literature Prize Giuseppe Acerbi (1998, Italy)
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The heroine, Sonechka, reveals a love...
Read moreThe 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."
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