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Year of Publication: 2017
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2017
Justice’s Darlings
Parahistorical Novel
Justice’s Darlings, these are crimes and criminals, real and alleged: Bohdan Stashynsky, for example, a KGB officer and assassin who kills the Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera in his...
Rights sold to:
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Poland (Warstwy), Bulgaria (Paradox)
Year of Publication: 2021
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2021
Radio Night
Novel
»I have always dreamt of writing a novel that has a sound,« says Yuri Andrukhovych, who has spent his life singing, rehearsing with his band and playing countless concerts. His latest work...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (NYRB), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora Zain), France (Noir sur Blanc), Poland (Czytelnik), Slovak Republic (N Press), Hungary (Helikon), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (Trei), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Mladinska Knjiga)
Year of Publication: 2023
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2023
The Price of Our Freedom
Essays
»They belong to us, they are one of us and we want them in« – Yuri Andrukhovych had been waiting for this sentence, which presented the prospect of EU membership to his country, for many years. It was uttered in Brussels, three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. »A deep exhale – amidst the blaring sirens.«
Twenty years ago, his brilliant volume of essays My Final...
Year of Publication: 2007
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2007
The Secret
Instead of a Novel
Rarely do the private and the political intertwine so closely as in this ironic portrait of an author who doesn't trust himself an inch.
Where did you feel happy? Why did the football match make you cry? Whose books would you like to learn by heart? Questions a German journalist poses to a Ukrainian author spending a year in Berlin. Over seven whole days, Egon Alt and...
Year of Publication: 2006
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2006
Angels and Demons of the Periphery
Essays
»A little bit Sisyphus, a little bit Sacher-Masoch« is how Ukraine’s best-known writer described himself in 2007. The »orange revolution« is a thing of the past, any hopes and dreams are pretty much dead and buried, »let’s start again from the beginning«: with reading Hesse, Benn and Lina Kostenko, early and formative experiences, with the...
Year of Publication: 2000
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2000
The Moscoviad
Novel
The Moscoviad, Andrukhovych’s most successful book, translated into many languages, was written in Spring 1992 on the banks of Lake Starnberg outside Munich – and is surprisingly...
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Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Besa), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (Czarne), Lithuania (Hieronymus), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Cankarjeva), Greece (World Books), Israel (Nine Lives Press), Ethiopia/Amharic (Hohe Publisher)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA (Spuyten Duyvil), Russia (New Literary Review), Czech Republic (FRA), Slovakia (Kalligram), Hungary (Gondolat), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (Allfa), Macedonia (Makedonska Rech), Belarus (ARCHE), Georgia (Sulakauri)
Year of Publication: 1999
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 1999
My Final Territory
Essays
»Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as public intellectual he has received numerous...
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English world rights (University of Toronto Press), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Hungary (Racio), Serbia (Kulturni Centar Novi Sad)
Year of Publication: 2000
Juri Andruchowytsch, Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2000
My Europe
Essays
In these »two essays on the strangest part of the world«, Yuri Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk offer a stereoscopic portrait of Central Europe. On foot and by car, they travelled together between...
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Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (print edition Mimesis / digital edition GoWare), Hungary (Kijarat), Bulgaria (Lektura), Romania (Polirom)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Czech Republic (Periplum), Croatia (Fraktura)
Year of Publication: 2003
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2003
Twelve Circles
Novel
In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through the Ukraine. The birth pangs of this new state, the incongruous mixture of brutally...
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Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Del Vecchio), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Slovenia (Cankarjeva)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Spuyten Duyvil), Hungary (Gondolat), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (RAO), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Filip Visnjic)
Year of Publication: 1996
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 1996
Perverzion
Novel
The godchild of Rabelais and Bakhtin, Bulgakov and Esterházy, it is a whirligig of forms, styles, and apocryphal traditions – an adventure for readers who view life not as...
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USA (Northwestern UP), Spain (Acantilado), Russia (NLO), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Del Vecchio), Finland (Loki Kirjat), Poland (Czarne), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Clio)
Year of Publication: 2006
Ljubko DereschYear of Publication: 2006
Intent! Or the Mirror of Death
Novel
Petro Piatochkin discovers his phenomenal memory when still a schoolboy. One glance at a book suffices to memorize the subject-matter. His bizarre talent makes him an outsider, an oddball who immerses himself in academic tomes about time and consciousness. After conducting experiments on himself, he realizes he is able to recall events he cannot possibly have experienced. During a visit to »Café...
Year of Publication: 2013
Mischa GabowitschYear of Publication: 2013
Putting Out Putin
Russia’s New Protest Movement
The Russian parliamentary elections of December 2011 gave rise to a massive protest movement.
Turnout for the demonstrations against electoral fraud, Vladimir Putin, and the...
Turnout for the demonstrations against electoral fraud, Vladimir Putin, and the...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Polity)
Year of Publication: 2012
Marjana GaponenkoYear of Publication: 2012
Who is Martha?
Novel
We won’t give away who Martha is, but we can tell you this much about the protagonist Luka Lewadski: a Ukrainian ornithologist and author of the groundbreaking study On the Mathematical...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (New Vessel Press; English world audio rights sublicense: Listen Up Audiobooks), France (Fayard), Italy (Elliot), Thailand (Legend Books), Bulgaria (Rhizome), Croatia (Hrvatsko Filolosko Drustvo), Turkey (Aylak Adam), Ukraine (Books XXI), Iran (Qoqnoos)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2010
Norman M. NaimarkYear of Publication: 2010
Stalin’s Genocides
Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
Many millions of innocent people died under Stalin’s rule. They were shot, starved or died during imprisonment or exile. In his extended essay, Norman M. Naimark narrates the devastating...
Rights sold to:
France (L'Arche Editeur), Japan (Misuzu Shobo), Poland (Instytut Pileckiego), Estonia (Tänapäev), Ukraine (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House)
Year of Publication: 2014
Katja PetrowskajaYear of Publication: 2014
Maybe Esther
Was her name really Esther, her great-grandmother on her father’s side, who stayed behind in the empty apartment in Kiev in 1941, after her family had fled? And the Yiddish words with which she...
Rights sold to:
USA & Canada (Harper Collins US), UK & Commonwealth (Fourth Estate), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (The Writers‘ Publishing House), Russia (Ivan Limbakh), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), Portuguese rights (Quetzal), France (Seuil), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Denmark (Tiderne Skifter), Sweden (Norstedts), Finland (Tammi), Poland (Jagiellonian University Press), Slovakia (Premedia), Bulgaria (Paradox), Estonia (Hea Lugu), Slovenia (Ebesede), Greece (Kapon), Ukraine (Knihy XXI), Georgia (Sulakauri), Israel (Carmel)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Hungary (Magvetö), Romania (Humanitas)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Entire Radio Reading (SWR), German Book Club rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2022
Katja PetrowskajaYear of Publication: 2022
The Photograph Looked Back at Me
An image catches the viewer’s eye and captivates her. The photograph of a ghostly plant in a book about Chernobyl. The face of a miner clouded in smoke in an exhibition in Kiev. A couple of...
Rights sold to:
France (Macula), Italy (Adelphi), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Glänta), Slovak Republic (Asociácia Corpus)
Year of Publication: 2001
Martin PollackYear of Publication: 2001
Galicia
A Journey Thorugh the Lost World of Eastern Galicia and the Bukovina
Who still knows Galicia? Who still knows where it is – or rather, where it used to be? Because Galicia no longer exists. It has disappeared from the map. Its western part now belongs to...
Rights sold to:
Russia (Libra), Italy (Keller)
Year of Publication: 2006
Mykola RjabtschukYear of Publication: 2006
Ukraine, Real and Imagined
Essay
What sort of a country was it in which elections were rigged, journalists murdered, and a presidential candidate poisoned during the election campaign?
How was it possible for millions of citizens to bring about a peaceful change of power after weeks of mass protests? What has to happen for a democratic, constitutional Ukraine to emerge as a new, gentle power in the east of Europe?...
How was it possible for millions of citizens to bring about a peaceful change of power after weeks of mass protests? What has to happen for a democratic, constitutional Ukraine to emerge as a new, gentle power in the east of Europe?...
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