ELKOST International literary agency - MEMORIAL human rights group and Ales Bialiatski got the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, Russian group Memorial and Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.

We would like to remind that along its other activities, Memorial conducts research into the history of political repressions in USSR and Russia, and publicizes the findings in books, articles, exhibitions, museums, and websites of its member organisations.

TITLES BY MEMORIAL:

Ivan Chistyakov's DIARY OF A GULAG PRISON GUARD

Irina Sherbakova's ONLY A MIRACLE COULD SAVE US

AGNES: recorded oral memories of Agnes Mironova

My Father's Letters

OST: A Lifelong Curse. Fate of Ostarbeiters during and after the WWII in documents, letters, and recorded oral memories

Ceylon, a novel by Yuri Buida (2015)

Rights sold: Russia - EKSMO

Longlisted for the 2016 NOS literary award
Longlisted for the 2016 Big Book literary award

Yuri Buida's Ceylon is a family chronicle narrated in first person by Andrei Cherepnin, the last living representative of his family. Generation after generation, Cherepnins played a significant role in the life of a small provincial town Osorin; their private lives became integral part of its history, of the history of Russia. They were among the founders of the city, they have grown up and developed with it, they actively participated to the first industrial revolution, then to WWI and the Bolshevik revolution, the family was torn apart by the Russian Civil War, it survived the WWII, then the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Perestroika, and faced up with a new reality of modern...

CASE OF ENGINEER TOWN, 2008

Rights sold: Russia – Chronicler

A nomad city of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol Empire (the map of which is just identical to a map of the Russian Empire), appears suddenly in the beginning of XVIII century in the area of Novocherkassk City in the Province of Don Cossack Voisko. The city does not fit into the picture of the real world; it moves every day a couple kilometers from the point it was seen before; Mongol Emperor Tughe, the ruler of the city, knows nothing about the existence of Russian Emperor Alexander (who in turn has never heard of Tughe).

Otroshenko creates a reality in which the relation between incidents, characters, and setting could not be based upon or justified by laws of nature or their normal acceptance by human mentality.

MEMORIAL human rights group and Ales Bialiatski got the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

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Ceylon, a novel by Yuri Buida (2015)

CASE OF ENGINEER TOWN, 2008