http://www.bigbook.ru/news/detail.php?ID=15521
Yuri Buida's new autobiographical novel Thief, Spy, and Murderer,
Andrei Volos's Return to Panjrud,
and Maya Kucherskaya's Auntie Mina
are among 11 finalists of the Big Book, Russia's most important literary award.
USSR State Prize for literature (1947)
Published by: Czech Republic - Naše vojsko (1948), SNKLU (1963), Práce (1973); Denmark - Forum (1983); France - Presses de la Cite (1965, 1974), Presses pocket (1967), LOUISON EDITIONS; Germany - SWA-Verlag (1948), Rowohlt Verlag (1949), Deutscher Militärverlag (1961), Posev (1981), Aufbau-Taschenbuch (1992); Greece - Ekdoseis Themelio (1975); Poland - Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza Czytelnik (1948), Czytelnik (1966); Spain - AUTOMATICA; UK - Harvill Press (1962), Fontana/Collins (1975), Pen & Sword (2012);
Victor Nekrasov's masterpiece Front-Line Stalingrad is one of the classic novels to come out of the pitiless fighting on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. His gripping narrative is set against the background of the grim struggle of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany — among the battered, exhausted, outnumbered Red Army soldiers desperately defending Stalingrad.Nekrasov himself experienced the front-line fighting — he served as a sapper in the trenches...
Read moreRights sold: Czech Republic - PROSTOR, China - CHINA WORKER, Germany - ciconia-x-ciconia, Japan - Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Mongolia - MASH NUUTS MEDIA, Poland – WAB, Russia - AZBOOKA, OGI, Serbia - THE SERBIAN LITERARY COOPERATIVE, Turkey - TIMAS, USA – ARDIS, Columbia University Press.
Between Dog and Wolf is a novel of startling originality, difficulty and daring. Its Russian title-idiom refers to twilight when the normally distinct becomes blurred, if not indistinguishable. Between Dog and Wolf, which has some claim to being the Finnegans Wake of Russian literature, was a quantum leap in Sokolov's literary development.
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