ELKOST International literary agency - World premier of the dramatic production by St.Petersburg Theater of Satire based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR took place in Poland

http://www.konfrontacje.pl/2008/en/s-daniel.html

During the 13th International theater festival KONFRONTATIONS (October 8-12, 2008) in Lublin, Poland, the St.Petersburg Theater of Satire on Vasilyevsky Island presented its new 140-minute-long dramatic production based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's bestselling novel DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR. This first stage version of Ulitskaya's title is directed by famous Polish director Andrzej Bubień.

Now this production is on Theatre of Satire's fixed repertoire: http://www.satira.spb.ru/repertoir/shtain.htm

Here are the poster and some photos of the production:

GREAT-GRANDAD GRISHA’S YARD, collected stories by Vladislav Otroshenko (2010)

Rights sold: China - Waiguo Wenyi (magazine rights), Lithuania – Metai (magazine rights), Hungary - Nagy Vilag (magazine rights), Slovakia - Svetovej Literatury (magazine rights), Serbia – Reč (magazine rights), Russia – Art House Media

Main theme of this collection of short stories by Vladislav Otroshenko is memories of the author about his childhood years spent in his native region near river Don, where Iranian, Greek, Roman, Turkic, Mongolian and Slavic traditions mixed freely. Otroshenko masterfully mixes reality with self-invented myths, using a number of unconventional techniques in order to introduce nonlinearity into his works.

BE AS CHILDREN, a novel by Vladimir Sharov

Winner of the 2008 Book Of The Year award (Russia)
Shortlisted for the 2008 Big Book Award and Russian Booker Prize
Winner of the William S. Hatcher Foundation award

Rights sold: Bulgaria - FAKEL, China - PEKING UNIVERSITY PRESS, France - LOUISON, Russia - AST, VAGRIUS, Serbia - UTOPIA, World Enlish - DEDALUS

The novel is set in the aftermath of the 1917 Revolution, and using the evangelical parable “be like children,” Sharov depicts a retelling of the last years of Lenin’s life where he experienced a religious conversion and plotted a children’s crusade to the Holy Land. Critical reception was divided on this novel because although the parable “be like children” linked characters, sometimes the multitude of characters made the novel hard to comprehend. Despite this, this novel also sold over 10,000 copies in Russia.

World premier of the dramatic production by St.Petersburg Theater of Satire based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR took place in Poland

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GREAT-GRANDAD GRISHA’S YARD, collected stories by Vladislav Otroshenko (2010)

BE AS CHILDREN, a novel by Vladimir Sharov