ELKOST International literary agency - 31/03/2009 Ludmila Ulitskaya receives Father Alexander Men Award in Stuttgart, Germany

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On March 31, 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany, Ludmila Ulitskaya will receive 2008 Father Alexander Men Award (Aleksandr-Men-Preis) conferred by Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart for her Daniel Stein, Translator novel.

The prize was established in 1995. Laureates of previous years are:
* 1995 Kathinka Dittrich van Weringh
* 1996 Lew Kopelev
* 1997 Wolfgang Kasack
* 1998 Tschynggys Aitmatov
* 1999 Gerd Ruge
* 2000 Michail Gorbachev
* 2001 Otto Graf Lambsdorff
* 2002 Anatoly Pristavkin
* 2003 Alexander Steininger
* 2004 Daniil Granin
* 2005 Ernst-Jörg von Studnitz
* 2006 Solomon Apt
* 2007 Christina Weiss

Antileader, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1980)

Rights sold: China - Nanhai Publishing, France - Gallimard, Germany - Neuer Malik, the Netherlands - De Arbeiderspers, Poland - Państ. Instytut Wydawniczy

In Antileader, Makanin is dealing seriously with the theme of violence. Its striking main character is othe pugnacious Kurenkov, a man driven by an inner demon of violence over which he appears to have little control. The novel is a psychological study of Kurenkov and of his wife who struggles to come to terms with her enigmatic husband.

Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, by Marietta Chudakova (1988, NF)

Rights sold: China - CCTP, Italy - ODOYA, Poland - Wydawnictwo Akademickie SEDNO, Ukraine - FOLIO, World English - GLAGOSLAV

MariettaChudakova’s Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (first published in 1988), by now is THE ONLY FULL-LENGTH STUDY OF BULGAKOV’S LIFE. It remains the most important and reliable source of information about the writer. In her fundamental work Chudakova recreates the milestones of Bulgakov’s personal and artistic life against the historical background of his turbulent époque. The book is written in a vivid journalistic style, and contains abundant quotes from unpublished Bulgakov’s manuscripts and draft redactions of his novels, archive documents, and memoirs of writer’s contemporaries.

"They must know... They must know," anxious about the fate of his unpublished books, Bulgakov whispered to his wife Yelena on his deathbed. One of the main ideas of his central novel The Master and Margarita is that of justice, which inevitably triumphs in...

31/03/2009 Ludmila Ulitskaya receives Father Alexander Men Award in Stuttgart, Germany

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Antileader, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1980)

Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, by Marietta Chudakova (1988, NF)