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29/05 - 02/06 Ludmila Ulitskaya attended to La Comédie du Livre literary festival in Montpellier, France
Ulitskaya's Daniel Stein, Translator and Russian Marmalade are in top-10 of Russia's most bestselling titles of the first quarter of 2008
14/06/08 Ludmila Ulitskaya was awarded GRINZANE CAVOUR Literary Prize
03/06/2008 in Milano, Italy, Elena Kostioukovitch hosts a show with MARGHERITA CREPAX (Stephen Dedalus Literary Award, Italian National Prize for translation 2007)
Elena Kostioukovitch won Italian National Translation Award - 2007
29/05 - 02/06 Ludmila Ulitskaya attends to La Comédie du Livre literary festival in Montpellier, France
Ludmila Ulitskaya is the Honour Guest of the International Novel Forum in France (Villa Gillet) 26-30/05/2008
Ludmila Ulitskaya and Elena Kostioukovitch participate in PRIMA VISTA literature festival in Estonia - 8-9/05/2007, Tartu, Estonia
Elena Kostioukovitch presents her book Why Italians Love to Talk about Food - 06/05/2008, Barcelona
18/01/2007 and 28/01/2007 - Stanford University - Colloquium and readings with Ludmila Ulitskaya
"Daniel Stein: traductor" en la "lista de los libros más vendidos esta semana" - 21 dic. 2007, EFE
Daniel Stein, Translator on 7th place in TOP-25 of Russia's most bestselling titles in December 2007, Kommersant-Money weekly, 24.12.2007
Stanford University - An Evening with Novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya 28/01/08
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s book is a bestseller in Belgium! August 2007
At 22-23.10.07 Mrs. Ulitskaya herself will visit Norway capital, Oslo. There are press meeting, interviews and public lecture on her schedule.

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  • Kukotsky Case, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2001)

    Penne Prize (2006, Italy)
    Russian Booker Prize 2001

    Right sold to: Albania - OMSCA, Bulgaria - COLIBRI, China - LIJIANG PUBLISHING, Beijing October Art & Literature Publishing House, Czech Repuiblic - PASEKA, Denmark - HOVEDLAND OG BOGAN, Estonia - TANAPAEV, France - GALLIMARD, Georgia - AZRI, Germany - VOLK UND WELT (LUCHTENHAND LUEBBE), Japan - GUNZOSHA, Korea - DULNYOUK PUBLISHING, The Netherlands - DE GEUS, Hungary - EUROPE, Italy - FRASSINELLI, Lithuania - JOTEMA, Macedonia - ANTOLOG, Norway - BAZAR, Poland - PHILIP WILSON, Portugal - RELÓGIO D’ÁGUA, Romania - HUMANITAS FICTION, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - Filip Višnjić, ARHIPELAG, USA - Northwestern University Press

    Big part of her life Ulitskaya has been closely connected to biological schience, though a twist of life took her in another direction. Her years devoted to studying genetics and medicine have made a considerable impact on her literary style. This was where she realized the similarities between the doctor and the priest, and this was where the difficult questions emerged: where do the limits of human freedom lie and what are the limits between health and sickness, between life and death?

    The novel Kukotsky Case deals with important themes such as motherhood, illness and marriage. The hero, a gynecologist, is ready to do everything possible to protect yet unborn life, but he also feels it his duty to defend every woman’s right to abortion, thus saving thousands of women from death as a result of backstreet abortions. This was a burning issue in the mid-twentieth century and it remains just as relevant today in the new millennium.

     

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  • Modern Day Patericon, by Maya Kuzherskaya (2005)

    2006 Ivan Bunin Prize

     

    Kucherskaya's honest and humorous account of life within the modern Russian Orthodox community, including short biographies of numerous batyushkas (low ranking priests), sometimes fictitious, but presenting easily recognizable prototypes all the same, have made her popular beyond the bounds of church circles. Kucherskaya is a master at describing them. The images of priests and parishioners that she creates are sometimes far from sainthood. Among her characters, you can find “manager” priests, “superman” priests and even one “cannibal” priest. They teach their parishioners in a way that has a Zen Buddhist element to it. One calls his followers “an academy of idiots” for hanging on his every word. Another induces a parishioner, whose wife has been coming home late, to feign drunkenness to show her how distraught he is with her absence. Surprisingly, the wife takes a renewed interest in her “drinking” husband and begins to come home earlier. She never discovered that, on the priest’s advice, her husband had collected empty vodka bottles and cigarette butts from the street and then strewn them all over the apartment before she came home. “Father Konstantin never laughed as much in his whole life,” Kucherskaya writes at the end of the story.

    Kucherskaya’s book is also full of overzealous female parishioners, whom the author does not treat with much sympathy. “If only one of them had killed someone!” a batyushka says in one of her stories, after listening to a long line of empty confessions from women reporting that they had eaten sardines on a Friday, or some other trifle. “What conclusion can we draw from this story? The girl was insane,” is how she wraps up a story of a Literary Institute graduate who idolized her priest so much that she made him the censor of all her writings, before drowning herself in the Moscow River after becoming disillusioned with writing.

    “This is one of my criticisms of church subculture,” Kucherskaya said. “Sometimes, people there confine themselves to a small space and write the word “vanity” on the window to the outside world. The young church girls often call this penance. It has nothing in common with real penance, however.”

    When the book was first released by the secular Vremya publisher, readers’ reactions were enthusiastic. But, when the second edition was published by Biblio-Polis, whose books are sold in Orthodox churches, the tone of the reactions shifted with the audience. A church newspaper in St.Petersburg even suggested that Kucherskaya was under the spell of “hostile demons.” “Kucherskaya is an alien, who came to our circle accidentally or, more likely, with an evil purpose,” an article in the religious newspaper Pravoslavnyi St.Peterburg said. “Our joys appear stupid to her, while our troubles are a laughing matter for her. This is just unbearable!”

    Fortunately, Kucherskaya wasn’t turned into an Orthodox Russian version of Salman Rushdie. Many monks, nuns and regular churchgoers rushed to her defense. “An honest reader will quickly remember many examples similar to those described in the book,” one of her defenders, who identified herself as a nun by the name of Yekaterina, wrote in a letter to the media. “For this reader, Kucherskaya’s book is just one more reason to think about the illnesses which still plague our church.”

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