Girls Without Clothes
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)
Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2023
This bilingual edition, which includes the (long) poems Girls Without Clothes, Clothes Without Us & If Air, derives from the volume Старый мир. Починка жизни (Novoe, 2019; translated English title: The old world. Mending life).
»In her new cycles of poems, ... the topic of the layers is varied: time and again, there are clothes that cover bodies or – when taken off – become wistful testimonies of times past, flimsy mementos.« Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»[Stepanova] shows in an exemplary way how a contemporary poetic language is created from an awareness of history and literary history.« Helmut Böttiger, taz am wochenende
»Where Maria Stepanova gets the images she uses in her poems, one after the other, is unfathomable.« Frankfurter Rundschau
»In her new cycles of poems, ... the topic of the layers is varied: time and again, there are clothes that cover bodies or – when taken off – become wistful testimonies of times past, flimsy mementos.« Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»[Stepanova] shows in an exemplary way how a contemporary poetic language is created from an awareness of...
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Maria Stepanova
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Disappearing Act
UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo Editions), USA & Canada (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Catalan (Angle), Chinese simplex rights (Yilin), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF Martin Fontes), Portuguese rights (Rélogio d’Agua), France (Stock), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Bulgaria (Janet 45), Romania (Humanitas), Greece (Gutenberg)
Holy Winter 20/21
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...
USA & Canada (New Directions), UK & Commonwealth (Bloodaxe), Italy (Bompiani), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Greece (Vakxikon)
The Body Returns
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...
Italy (Bompiani)
In Memory of Memory
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...
USA (New Directions), Canada (Book*hug Press), UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Chinese simplex rights (China CITIC Press), 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 Press)