Competition – Win a book set in Russia!
An early Christmas treat today on Translation Thursday. A competition to win a book set in Russia! Solovyov and Larionov from One World Publications
There’s three copies up for grabs and the competition is open worldwide. Just follow and RT pinned tweet for a chance to win! Here’s more information about the book though.
BookTrail Solovyov and Larionov here
Solovyov and Larionov
BookTrail Solovyov and Larionov here
Shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and Russia’s National Big Book Award!
Larionov. A general of the Imperial Russian Army who mysteriously avoided execution by the Bolsheviks when they swept to power and went on to live a long life in Yalta, leaving behind a vast heritage of memoirs.
Solovyov. The young history student who travels to Crimea, determined to find out how Larionov evaded capture after the 1917 revolution.
With wry humour, Eugene Vodolazkin, one of Russia’s foremost contemporary writers, takes readers on a fascinating journey through a momentous period of Russian history, interweaving the intriguing story of two men from very different backgrounds that ultimately asks whether we can really understand the present without first understanding the past.
BookTrail Solovyov and Larionov here
The author
Eugene Vodolazkin was born in Kiev and has worked in the department of Old Russian Literature at Pushkin House since 1990.
He is an expert in medieval Russian history and folklore. Solovyov and Larionov is his debut novel.
Laurus (Oneworld, 2015), his second novel but the first to be translated into English, won the National Big Book Award and the Yasnaya Polyana Award and has been translated into eighteen languages.
His third novel, The Aviator (Oneworld, 2018), was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and the National Big Book Award. He lives in St Petersburg.
BookTrail Solovyov and Larionov here
The translator!
Lisa C. Hayden has translated a lot of novels including Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus (Winner of Read Russia Award in 2016)
She was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize with her translation of Vadim Levental’s Masha Regina.
Want to know more? Her blog, Lizok’s Bookshelf looks at more Russian fine fiction
Good luck!
The competition will run until Thursday 6th December so the next Translation Thursday! Closing at 5pm
Just follow and RT pinned tweet for a chance to win
