ELKOST International literary agency - Ulitskaya in Helsinki and Stockholm, October 22-25, 2015

In October, Ludmila Ulitskaya will be a special guest of PEN International at the Helsinki International Book Fair and the Stockholm Literature festival.

Her public appearances include:

Helsinki, October 22

13.00-13.30 - book signing session at the Rosebud Books shop

14.00-15.00 - Discussion w. author Lev Rubinstein, translator Arja Pikkupeura and Professor Tomi Huttunen: Writer’s freedom of speech in Russia. Venue: Aino stage of Helsinki Book Fair at Messukeskus congress center, add. Messuaukio 1, Helsinki

15.30-16.00 - Discussion w. culture journalist Jukka Petäjä: Tyttölapsia (short stories) & Vihreä linja/Skvoznaja linija (novel). Venue: Aleksis Kivi stage of Helsinki Book Fair at Messukeskus congress center, add. Messuaukio 1, Helsinki.

17.00-17.30 - Discussion w. publisher Touko Siltala: Tyttölapsia (short stories). Venue: Katri Vala stage at Messukeskus congress center, add. Messuaukio 1, Helsinki.

Stockholm, October 24

13.00-13.15 - Lev Rubinstein + Ljudmila Ulitskaja, Venue: ZON at Moderna Museet

15.30-16.00 - reading in Russian and Swedish with the actress Gunnel Fred. Venue: reading stage 4th floor at Moderna Museet

Stockholm, October 25

11.45-12.30 - talk with Gabriella Håkansson. Venue: the Auditorium (2nd floor) at Moderna Museet

Additional details and tickets:

Helsinki International Book Fair

Stockholm Literature festival

The Goatibex Constellation, a novel by Fazil Iskander (1966)

Published by: Czech Republic - Svet sovetu (1968), Estonia - Perioodika (1967), France - Les Editeurs Francais Reunis (1972), Germany - Volk und Welt (1968), Piper (1973), Verlag der Nation (1984), Hungary - Magveto (1968), Poland - Iskry (1971), Japan - Gunzosha (1985), Italy - Sellerio di Giorgianni (1988), Latvia - Liesma (1968), The Netherlands - Van Oorschot (1980), Slovakia - Obzor (1967), Sweden - AWE/Geber (1977), Romania - Colectia Meridiane (1968), Turkey - Hurriyet (1974), USA - ARDIS (1975), Overlook Press (2015)

Sozvezdie kozlotura (variously translated as "The Goatibex Constellation," "The Constellation of the Goat-Buffalo," and "Constellation of Capritaurus") is written from the point of view of a young newspaperman who returns to his native Abkhazia, joins the staff of a local newspaper, and is caught up in the publicity campaign for a newly produced farm animal, a cross between a goat and a West Caucasian tur (Capra...

Poison and Honey, a novel by Yuri Buida (2014)

Rights sold: Armenia - ORACLE, Russia - EKSMO, Serbia - GEOPOETIKA

Shortlisted for the 2014 Ivan Belkin literary award

Yuri Buida’s Poison and Honey is a modern Russian family saga that focuses on a house and a family, the Osorins, covering lives, ambitions, and deaths, including murder most foul. Buida manages to weave together what sometimes feels like legions of characters and an entire history book of world culture, creating a compact, packed story that’s realistic, mythical, and metaphysical. It’s also strangely enjoyable and even more strangely suspenseful.

Buida’s first-person narrator is Semyon Semyonovich, who’s not, by blood, an Osorin but who becomes part of the extended family when his grandfather, a physician’s assistant, brings him to the Osorins’ house as a little boy. The house, which is set on a hill, is sometimes known as the House of the Twelve Angels. The house is magnificent, and it contains...

Ulitskaya in Helsinki and Stockholm, October 22-25, 2015

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The Goatibex Constellation, a novel by Fazil Iskander (1966)

Poison and Honey, a novel by Yuri Buida (2014)