ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2014

Ludmila Ulitskaya have been awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2014 (Der Österreichische Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur).

The Prize is sponsored by the Republic of Austria and is given each year since 1965 to an author for his or her outstanding literary achievements in the field of European literature. In the past, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature was awarded to W. H. Auden (1966), Václav Havel (1968), Sławomir Mrożek (1970), Eugène Ionesco (1971), Harold Pinter (1973), Italo Calvino (1973), Simone de Beauvoir (1978), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1983), Milan Kundera (1987), Salman Rushdie (1992), Antonio Tabucchi (1998), Umberto Eco (2001), Julian Barnes (2004), and many other outstanding European authors. Ulitskaya is the first Russian author to receive the award.

The awarding ceremony took place on July 26, 2014, in Salzburg during the Salzburg Festival.

See http://derstandard.at/2000003545198/Eine-Meisterin-der-Verschwendung

http://kurier.at/kultur/literatur/staatspreis-fuer-literatur-an-ulitzkaja/76.837.277

The Triumph of Provocation, collected essays by Józef Mackiewicz

Original Polish title: Zwycięstwo prowokacji

Rights status: available for all languages less Polish and English.

Published by: English - Yale University Press (2009), Polish - Kontra, Russian - Zarya, German - Bergstadtverlag W.G. Korn

This masterful political treatise, first published in 1962, examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. Józef Mackiewicz, known for his relentless opposition to Communism, argues that accommodation with the Communists simply helped them to impose their vision of the world and pursue their goal of global domination. He compares Communism to Nazism and insists that the former was the greater threat to the future of humanity.

Mackiewicz's unique interpretation of the differences and similarities between Communism and Nazism is highly relevant to debates about these two systems and to major contemporary issues which are of particular importance to the U.S. and Europe, including radical Islam...

Bizarre, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2014)

Rights sold: Estonia - VARRAK, Russia - RIPOL

Ludmila Ulitskaya awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2014

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The Triumph of Provocation, collected essays by Józef Mackiewicz

Bizarre, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2014)