ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya in the USA, Jan.-Feb. 2016

Ludmila Ulitskaya will be visiting the United States in January-February 2016.

Her public appearances include:

BOSTON:

On Thursday, January 21 at 6:30 pm - Literary Encounter with Ludmila Ulitskaya hosted by the Russian Studies Program of Brandeis University. Venue: Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library

NYC

On Saturday, January 23 at 4:00 pm - Russian Literary Series: Ludmila Ulitskaya presents "Jacob's Ladder" hosted by Brooklyn Public Library and PEN American Center. Venue: Central Library 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY

From January 26 to 29, Ulitskaya will join the delegation of Russian authors invited by PEN American Center:

On Tuesday, January 26 at 7:30 pm - Voices from Russia: Literature and Free Expression in Putin's Russia (with Ludmila Ulitskaya, Maria Stepanova, Anna Nemzer, and Ilya Danishevsky)hosted by Brooklyn Public Library and PEN American Center. Venue: Central Library 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY.

On Wednesday, January 27 at 7:30 pm - The Closing of the Russian Mind? A Conversation on Expression and Creativity in Putin's Russia (Featuring Ludmila Ulitskaya, Maria Stepanova, Ann Nemzer, and Ilya Danishevsky, moderated by Masha Gessen) hosted by JCC Manhattan and PEN American Center. Venue:JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam ave at 76th st, NYC.

WASHINGTON DC

On Thursday, January 28 at 4:00 pm - The Closing of the Russian Mind? A Conversation on Expression and Creativity in Putin's Russia (Featuring Ludmila Ulitskaya, Maria Stepanova, Ann Nemzer, and Ilya Danishevsky, moderated by Scott Stossel) hosted by Atlantic Council and PEN American Center. Venue: Atlantic Council 1030 15th Street NW, 12th Floor (West Tower Elevator) Washington, DC

Delegation of Russian writers will also partisipate to the symposium organized by Harriman Institute | Columbia University.

On Sunday, February 1 Ludmila Ulitskaya will be presenting her novels The Big Green Tent and Yakov's Ladder at the Kennan Institute | Wilson Center with a public lecture "LIterary Text and Document". Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC

Featured titles

Dictionary of "Foucault's Pendulum", 2002

Rights sold: Russia - Symposium

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 the life of the spirit, although sometimes belatedly and beyond the bourn of the creator's physical death.

Over the years that have passed since the day of Bulgakov's death, his former loneliness has turned into widespread interest in him from readers both in his native Russia and abroad. The growing popularity of his books, which are very "personal" and seem to talk to the reader directly, has attracted attention to the author himself, his biography, and his fate. The fame of Mikhail Bulgakov has taken root in time everlasting. He is dear to people as a writer and interesting as a man who retained throughout the vicissitudes of fate, the dignity and courage of a truly creative personality.

Writers with a great destiny know something about themselves that we do not know or dare not say about them until later. At this juncture interest arises in the figure of the creator himself, in his biography, his personality. Why do we know so little about him? Why does he grow more interesting each year? Bulgakov's destiny has its own dramatic pattern. As is always the case from a distance and after the passage of many years, it appears to contain little that is accidental and shows a clear sense of direction.

Chudakova's 2-part lecture on Bulgakov and Russian literature of XXth century broadcasted on Kultura TV channel, Russia, 2011

Part 2