ELKOST International literary agency - International Memorial Society Chairman Arseny Roginsky Dies At 71

Arseny Roginsky, a veteran activist who was chairman of the respected Memorial human rights society, died on December 18 of cancer at the age of 71.

Those willing to bid the last farewell to Arseny Roginsky are welcome at the International Memorial (5/10 Karetny Ryad) on Friday, 22 December, from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Watch the ceremony live on Youtube: https://youtu.be/cSjz8KZXpWA

The funeral is scheduled to take place on Saturday, 23 December, at 2:30 p.m. at Vvedenskoye cemetery (1, Nalichnaya st.)

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World media remembers Arseny Roginsky:

The Historical Truth-Telling of Arseny Roginsky By David Remnick

How Arseny Roginsky Confronted the Politics of Memory in Russia By Masha Gessen

Arseny Roginsky, la disparition d'une voix libre en Russie by François Bonnet

Savely's Days, a novel by Grigory Sluzhitel

Winner of the 2020 Moscow Art Prize (Russia)
Winner of the 2019 Big Book Award (Russia)

Rights sold: Bulgaria - GNEZDOTO, China (simplified Chinese) - GINKGO, Estonia - TANAPAEV, France - SYRTES, Hungary - TERICUM, Italy - FRANCESCO BRIOSCHI EDITORE, Latvia - JANIS ROZES, Lithuania - ALMA LITTERA, Romania - HUMANITAS, Russia - AST, Serbia - LOGOS

Grigory Sluzhitel’s Savely’s Days, narrated by a male cat named Savely who was likely named for a brand of a cottage cheese, is so affecting and charming that it makes even experienced reader smile, laugh, and even sob. Savely’s story isn’t just a chronicle of a cat’s life, it’s also a love letter to Moscow, and a bittersweet story of kinship, friendship, and separations.

As the novel’s title indicates, Savely, a very literate and literary cat, tells his life story, beginning with memories from the womb, birth, and early life in a Chiquita...

Hanuman’s Travels, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2009)

Rights sold: Estonia - VARRAK, France - Le Tripode, Germany - Kunstmann, World English - Vagabond Voices

Winner of the 2009 Yuri Dolgoruky Foundation Prize
Shortlisted for the 2010 Russian Booker Prize

Hanuman’s Travels, which was shortlisted for the Russian Booker in 2010, translated into English, German and French, and put on the German stage, is the picaresque tale of two asylum seekers, one a Russian Estonian man (the narrator) and the other an Indian (the protagonist), and their daily lives in a Danish refugee camp and on the road in the late 1990s. While they are waiting to go to the Danish island of Lolland, which is said to be a paradise, the two companions in misfortune survive in any way they can.

Among scams, big and small disgraces, humiliations and lies, a map is gradually drawn – a detailed map of itineraries where the hopes and...

International Memorial Society Chairman Arseny Roginsky Dies At 71

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Savely's Days, a novel by Grigory Sluzhitel

Hanuman’s Travels, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2009)