ELKOST International literary agency - Elena Kostioukovitch's ZWINGER will be launched at the Non/Fiction book fair in Moscow

The 15th INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR OF HIGH-QUALITY NON-FICTION will take place from 27th of November to 1st of December 2013 in Moscow at the Central House of Artists (10, Krymsky Val str.) (see http://www.moscowbookfair.ru/eng/about.html).

Moscow’s ‘Non/Fiction’ Book Fair runs annually for five days. Last year, the fair united 293 participants from 18 countries of Europe, Asia and America. Publishing houses, book-trade systems, literary communities and culture foundations offered bright and high-quality selection of humanitarian, sci-tech, educational, business, publicistic and fiction literature to all kinds of visitors of the Central House of Artists. In 2012, 31.831 people visited to the Non-Fiction Book Fair.

More than 300 business events such as presentations, meetings and panel discussions were held in 7 discussion spaces during all five days of the exhibition. More than 40 International Guests from Belgium, UK, Germany, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, USA, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia and Japan took part in the Fair, and the programme included more than 300 different events on seven stages, all connected with book publishing, distribution, and promotion of high-quality fiction, humanitarian, and educational literature.

On November 30th at 14.00, in the 1st Seminar Zone of the NON/Fiction fair, Elena Kostioukovitch will be presenting the Russian edition of her ZWINGER novel released by Coprus Books.

LEAD ME, BLIND MAN, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)

Rights sold: Russia – Culturnaya Revolutzia, AST

A biopic novel dedicated to the famous Russian playwright Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903). A rich aristocrat who often travelled, Sukhovo-Kobylin was arrested, prosecuted and tried for seven years in Russia for the murder of his French mistress Louise-Simone Dimanche, a crime of which he is nowadays generally believed to have been innocent. Based on his personal experiences, Sukhovo-Kobylin wrote a trilogy of satirical plays about the prevalence of bribery and other corrupt practices in the Russian judicial system of the time.

The Freedom Factory, a novel by Ksenia Buksha

Winner of the 2014 National Bestseller Award (Russia)
Winner of the 2014 Città di Penne-Mosca Prize (Italy)

Rights sold: Russia - OGI, World English - PHONEME MEDIA

Poet, writer, and journalist Ksenia Buksha was thirty when she published The Freedom Factory, the novel that won Russia's 2014 National Bestseller prize. Buksha, an economist by training, was just eighteen when her writing began earning critical acclaim. She brings both striking innovation and unflinching maturity to her creative work, while her precisely observed narration and dialogue transport readers through the entire spectrum of Soviet and post-Soviet life, from the absurd to the sublime.

The Freedom Factory is the history of a real military plant in Saint Petersburg from the 1950s to the present, told in monologues by its workers, managers, engineers. The Freedom Factory is not exactly a piece of realism: it combines poetry and documentary in...

Elena Kostioukovitch's ZWINGER will be launched at the Non/Fiction book fair in Moscow

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LEAD ME, BLIND MAN, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)

The Freedom Factory, a novel by Ksenia Buksha