ELKOST International literary agency - AD: Lecture by Elena Kostioukovitch in Tokyo

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...

New Year's Eve Party at the Boulgakov's, a novel by Olga Medvedkova (2021)

Rights sold: France - Triartis Éditions

Today, Mikhail Bulgakov without doubt is the most well-known Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. But let us recall that during his lifetime, Bulgakov was hardly allowed by Bolsheviks to publish any of his writings or see theatrical productions based on his plays. Olga Medvedkova's semi-documentary novel New Year's Eve at the Bulgakov's shows us the inner cercle of Bulgakov and Elena's family at the midst of Stalinist purges. The moment, the beginning of 1939, was decisive in the career of Bulgakov, since he just completed a commissioned work that shold have turned the powerful Owner of the Kremlin towards him. But was it really so? --Read more

AD: Lecture by Elena Kostioukovitch in Tokyo

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Didar and Faruk, a novel by Sana Valiulina

New Year's Eve Party at the Boulgakov's, a novel by Olga Medvedkova (2021)