ELKOST Intl. literary agency handles world translation rights in all titles by Nikolai Kononov

Nikolai Kononov (b. 1980) is a Russian writer and journalist. His investigative reports and op-eds won multiples professional prizes and were published in The New York Times, Quartz, Zürcher Allgemeine Zeitung, The Tribune and other media.

Kononov was editor-in-chief of The Firm's Secret magazine from 2014 to 2017, then its editorial director until 2018.

Kononov is the author of four NF books: Deux Sine Machina: Stories of 20 Crazy People Who Made Business in Russia From Scratch (2011), Code of Durov. The Real Story Of The Social Network "VKontakte" And Its Creator (2012), Author, Scissors, Paper. How to Write Impressive Texts Wuickly. 14 Lessons (2017), and of two novels: The Uprising (2019), and The Night We Disappeared (2022).