ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya participates to the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem

All Our Lord's Men, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2005)

Shortlisted for the Big Book National Literary Award (2006, Russia)

Rights sold: Finland - SILTALA, France - GALLIMARD, Germany - HANSER, Hungary - MAGVETO, Iran - SALESS PUBLICATIONS, Korea - EULYOO, Romania - HUMANITAS, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - PAIDEIA

Ever since this book appeared in Russia, it was an overwhelming success. Each Ulitskaya's book is a case by itself, a step forward and towards the new territories of prose. Similar to her other title published lately (Daniel Stein), in this work the Author matures towards a kaleidoscopic vision of destinies of different people, a wide tapestry of the modern life composed of the lives of people around her. In her interviews, the Author on several occasions stated that she «never invents anything», and that all her plots, no matter how extraordinary and fantastic they may seem, happened to somebody she knows: she just manages to penetrate...

Inhabitants of the Funny Cemetery, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2019)

Rights sold: Estonia - VARRAK, Russia - EKSMO

Winner of the 2019 Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Russian Author Award

Inhabitants of the Funny Cemetery is a panoramic novel which vividly brings to life the worlds of three generations of Russian émigrés in Paris. To recap, the Russian emigration began with the October Revolution and continued apace for two decades, meaning that by the start of the Second World War almost 80,000 Russians had established themselves in France. Paris quickly became the capital of the Russian emigration, not to be replaced by New York until the middle of the century.

The novel contains multiple voices, including three first-person protagonists, whose voices start to overlap, to intertwine, and set off unexpected echoes. The novel’s main narrator is the Soviet émigré Viktor Lipatov (not necessarily his real name), a former dissident who spent several years in psychiatric detention, fled to America, and then arrived...

Ludmila Ulitskaya participates to the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem - 2-6/05/2010

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All Our Lord's Men, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2005)

Inhabitants of the Funny Cemetery, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2019)