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Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. Following the success of her first prose work Памяти памяти, she is now internationally regarded as one of Europe's most important intellectual voices.
Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. Following the...

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Anne in a Box
Year of Publication: 2027
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2027
Anne Lister was born in Yorkshire in 1791 and died in the Caucasus in 1840. A landowner, traveller, and diarist, she is sometimes referred to as the first modern lesbian. She documented her life in...
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UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo), USA & Canada (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora WMF Martins Fontes), France (Stock), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Japan (Hakusuisha), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Bulgaria (Janet45), Greece (Gutenberg)

Disappearing Act
Year of Publication: 2024
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2024
Maria Stepanova’s new novella centres around an author referred to only as “M.” M. has been living in the city B. since leaving her home country, which is currently waging war on a neighbouring...
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UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo), USA & Canada (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Spanish audiobook (Audible), Catalan (Angle), Chinese simplex rights (Yilin), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF Martin Fontes), Portuguese rights (Rélogio d’Agua), France (Stock, Paperback Sublicense: Le Livre de Poche), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Japan (Kawade), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Bulgaria (Janet 45), Romania (Humanitas), Greece (Gutenberg)

Holy Winter 20/21
Year of Publication: 2023
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2023

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic cut short Maria Stepanova’s stay in Cambridge, UK, in March 2020. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor – the world...

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USA & Canada (New Directions), UK & Commonwealth (Bloodaxe), Italy (Bompiani), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur)

The Body Returns
Year of Publication: 2020
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2020

Even before the international success of her first work of prose, Post-Memory, Maria Stepanova was a famous author. For twenty years, she has been contributing to shaping Moscow’s...

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Italy (Bompiani)

Girls Without Clothes
Year of Publication: 2020
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2020
Girls Without Clothes, Clothes Without Us, If Air – Maria Stepanova continues her endeavour of »mending life« in her new cycles of poems. They can be...
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The contents of the Suhrkamp-edition are also included in the Italian selection of poems to be published by Bompiani and the Swedish edition of The Body Returns (Kroppens återkomst), published by Nirstedt/literatur in 2021. Other language rights are available.

Greece (Vakxikon)

In Memory of Memory
Year of Publication: 2018
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2018

Montpellier, 1908: the photograph of a young woman by an easel or »Grandma on the barricades«, as the family calls it. Pre-Revolution portraits, postcards from Venice, Montpellier, or Nizhny...

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USA (New Directions), Canada (Book*hug), UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Chinese simplex rights (Yilin), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF Martins Fontes), Portuguese rights (Relógio D'Água), France (Stock, Paperback Sublicense: Le Livre de Poche), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Korea (Bokbok Seoga), Japan (Hakusuisha), Poland (Prószyński), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Hungary (Park), Bulgaria (Janet45), Romania (Humanitas), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Booka), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (CAN), Greece (Vakxikon), North Macedonia (Bata)


DISCOVER

News
The author was nominated for her novella Disappearing Act
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We congratulate Nana Ekvtimishvili, Esther Kinsky, Judith Schalansky and Maria Stepanova!