Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

National Prize for “The Romance in the Theatre”

Posted on September 1, 2011 by danavtumane

Short animated movie “Teatralnyi roman” (“The Romance of the Theatre”) based on Marina and Sergey Dyachenko’s screepnplay was awarded by the Prize of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine named after Lesya Ukrainka as “the best film production for children and young adults”.

“The Romance of the Theatre” was directed by Oksana Karpus at Ukrainian Animation Films Studios in 2008. It is a touching tale of love, admiration of art and coming to age told without a single word.

The short can be watched on YouTube and right here. Enjoy!

https://rutube.ru/video/4a852d73693f633273472b1e895daf80/

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More on The Scar

Posted on August 12, 2011 by danavtumane

Risingshadow site listed The Scar in “Coming Books” department with picture that looks like early sketch for cover image.

Quote from the blurb:

“Reaching far beyond sword and sorcery, The Scar is a character examination of two people torn by disaster, their descent into despair, and their re-emergence through love and courage. Sergey and Marina Dyachenko mix dramatic scenes with romance, action and wit, in a style both direct and lyrical. Written with a sure artistic hand, The Scar tells the story of a character driven by his own feverish demons to find redemption”.

Also Elinor Huntington was mentioned as translator of the work.

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The Scar was spotted at Amazon.com

Posted on August 12, 2011 by danavtumane

Now we can prove it: Amazon.com unveils English translation of Scar_1997_Garin_002-174x300 The Scar coming next year from Tor Books. There is no cover image yet, but the pre-order price $16.49 (discounts applied) is already here. The book will come to readers in USA at February 28, 2012.

The Scar (1997) is fantasy novel, second book in Dyachenko’s “Wanderers” Cycle (but it stands strong for itself).

More than once it happened to brave squabbler Egert Soll to kill on duel, but the death of his last victim was suddenly avenged. Soll had lost the fight to the mysteriuos stranger, and stranger’s sword left a deep mark on the Egert’s face – and on his soul. He was doomed by the the spell that turned the excellent fighter into the shameful coward. And now Soll is fated to find a way to remove a spell of the former Gate-Keeper….

The novel was the winner of 1997 Sword in the Stone Award for the best original fantasy novel of the year published in Russia.

Enjoy Kirill Garin’s interior illustrations to the novel

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Welcome to the Gallery: Vladimir Bondar

Posted on August 10, 2011 by danavtumane

Vladimir Bondar (click here to browse images on his official website) made a lot of covers and inner illustrations for our books. Here is the beautiful flyleaf he created for Triumvirate book series (Eksmo Publishing House, Moscow), where our books were published alone with novels by Andrey Valentinov and H.L.Oldie. Enjoy.

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Worklist: Long Form

Posted on June 10, 2011 by danavtumane

We compiled the list of all our novels published in Russia and Ukraine – 27 titles for now. Lists of our novellas, novelettes and short stories is on the way (and it’ll be huge), followed by list of plays and screenplays.

If you can read Russian, you may check complete list of our works on our FantLab page.

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