Moscow Noir

Works in Progress

• 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).

• Moscow Noir
  

  Coming up in Akashic Books’ groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies is Moscow Noir. Each book in the series is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book—this time Moscow. I’ll have some blood-curdling stories in it by Andrei Khusnutdinov, Igor Zotov, and Sergei Kuznetsov, among others.

• Olga Slavnikova, “2017”
  

  Overlook Press will be publishing Olga Slavnikova’s Russian Booker Prize-winning novel, 2017, translated with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, in March 2010.

• 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.

• 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.