ELKOST International literary agency - Ulitskaya and Kostioukovitch at the 2014 La Milanesiana

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The 15th edition of "La Milanesiana" Festival, showcasing Italian literature, music, cinema, art, philosophy, and theatre, opens on June 23. An international, multiform, artistic event taking place in Milano and Turin, with protagonists from across artistic, cultural and scientific disciplines, "La Milanesiana" offers a unique opportunity for exchange and enrichment of world cultures.

This year's event hosts 160 international speakers from 32 countries, among numerous others and a huge number of the general public between 23 June and 10 July 2014.

Ludmila Ulitskaya and Elena Kostioukovitch will be participating to the readings 'Border, Liberty, Destiny' on 27 June at 9 pm in TEATRO DAL VERME, Milan.

VENERDÌ 27 GIUGNO, ore 21, TEATRO DAL VERME

Frontiere, libertà, fortuna

Prologo letterario

Mauro Covacich

Letture

Dacia Maraini

Svetlana Alexievich

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Interviene

Elena Kostioukovitch

Straight line, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1967)

Rights sold: Slovakia - Slovak Writer,

Straight Line is a debut Makanin´s novel published in 1965. In it, Makanin recounts a love story of a young Soviet scientist Vladimir, and his older colleague Emma.

Didar and Faruk, a novel by Sana Valiulina

Rights sold: Germany - KNAUS, Netherlands - Meulenhoff

An epic love story in the narrative tradition of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, but this time with Stalinist Russia as the vivid backdrop: Didar en Faroek, by the Tatar Sana Valiulina, who lives in the Netherlands and writes in Dutch, is a book of international allure. Never before has this period been so convincingly and majestically articulated in a novel.

Didar and Faruk are distant cousins from a Tatar family that was dispersed in the displacement of ethnic groups in Russia in the 1920s. Didar grows up in the town of Pushkin, near St Petersburg, and Faruk in the centre of Moscow, which, at the time, was inhabited by multi-racial peoples from southern Russia. As in a fairy tale, Didar and Faruk are made for one another, and although the course of history keeps them apart for years, they succeed in keeping their...

Ulitskaya and Kostioukovitch at the 2014 La Milanesiana

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Straight line, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1967)

Didar and Faruk, a novel by Sana Valiulina