ELKOST International literary agency - MEMORIAL human rights group and Ales Bialiatski got the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, Russian group Memorial and Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.

We would like to remind that along its other activities, Memorial conducts research into the history of political repressions in USSR and Russia, and publicizes the findings in books, articles, exhibitions, museums, and websites of its member organisations.

TITLES BY MEMORIAL:

Ivan Chistyakov's DIARY OF A GULAG PRISON GUARD

Irina Sherbakova's ONLY A MIRACLE COULD SAVE US

AGNES: recorded oral memories of Agnes Mironova

My Father's Letters

OST: A Lifelong Curse. Fate of Ostarbeiters during and after the WWII in documents, letters, and recorded oral memories

He and She, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1987)

Rights sold: Spain - Alfaguara, Cirulo de Lectores, Sweden - Bromberg

Main heroes of Makanin's 1987 novel He and She (Odin i odna) are "shestidesiatniki" Gennadii Goloshchekov and Ninel', two idealistic people who were involved in student politics during the 1950s, and who could never bring themselves to kow-tow to the regime, people who realized that ‘the intellect and conformism arc two incompatible things, Salieri’. They are depicted as innately honourable, but the harsh spotlight of Makanin’s prose shows them also to be pathetic and even farcical. Ninel' is always bathetically tormented by a sense of guilt over trifles, usually involving her co-workers. Gennadii is the kind of man who gets out of bed late at night to rescue a stranger whom his own drinking companion, Daev, confessed he had abandoned in a snowdrift. Gennadii the knight-errant then finds himself in the snowdrift — pushed in by an ungrateful rescuee who...

Blue and Red, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1983)

Rights sold: Italy - Edizioni e/o,

Makanin’s view of man’s nature is a pessimistic one, and his depictions of love and harmonious interrelationships lack the power of his descriptions of man’s inhumanity to man (or to beast). He is most at ease describing love linked to violence, as in Blue and Red (Goluhoe i krasnoe) (1983), which describes how two grandmothers battle for the love of their young grandson Kliucharev, who is ‘unused to love’ — a phrase which perhaps could be used to describe many of Makanin’s heroes.The love which Makanin’s heroes advocate is a tough, universal and unselfish love, as typified by the healer Yakushkin with his philosophy of brotherly love in Makanin's previous novel Predlecha (1982). It is love for one’s family and kin, love for one’s people, birthplace, for Russia, love which has a basis in conscience, which interests Makanin, which means that his characters, are seekers...

MEMORIAL human rights group and Ales Bialiatski got the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

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He and She, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1987)

Blue and Red, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1983)