Harlequin’s Costume, the first volume in Leonid Yuzefovich’s popular historical detective trilogy set in St. Petersburg and based on the real life Chief Inspector Putilin. The successful Russian TV mini-series, “Detective Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin,” was based on this trilogy. The manuscript is complete. Not yet under contract.
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Yuzefovich, “Cranes and Pygmies”
Yuzefovich’s latest novel, Cranes and Pygmies, has won Russia’s Big Book award and been nominated for the National Bestseller prize. To read my sample translation, click here. For a full proposal, contact the Elena Kostioukovitch agency (rights@elkost.com).
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Olga Slavnikova’s Train Stories
A series of twelve stories written for the Russian Railroads glossy in-train magazine, now published in Russian as Love in Train Car No. 7. Already published: "Love in Train Car No. 7" (Chtenia/Readings 05 Winter 2009), “Substance” (Subtropics, no. 7, Winter-Spring 2009). Circulating: "Recluse," "Russian Bullet." Circulating: "The Cherepanova Sisters," the Russian original of which won the 2009 Yuri Kabakov Prize for Best Short Story.
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Leonid Yuzefovich, Harlequin’s Costume
Harlequin’s Costume, the first volume in Leonid Yuzefovich’s popular historical detective trilogy set in St. Petersburg and based on the real life Chief Inspector Putilin. The successful Russian TV mini-series, “Detective Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin,” was based on this trilogy. The manuscript is complete. Not yet under contract.
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Yuzefovich, “Cranes and Pygmies”
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The graphics used on this site were inspired by the work of Liubov Popova (1889-1924), a Russian artist and designer influenced by Constructivism and Futurism, as seen in her biography, by D.V. Sarabianov and N.L. Adaskina, Liubov Popova, translated by Marian Schwartz and published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990.