TRIUMVIRATE by Yulia Andreeva: The artistic biographies of the writers

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Serge Berezhnoy
Yulia Andreeva, Triumvirate

Yulia Andreeva, Triumvirate

It’s a rare bird in Russian fandom, but here it is: Yulia Andreeva, writer from Sant-Petersburg, published a limited edition of TRIUMVIRATE, the book with the artistic biographies of the three modern literary fantasy writers – Henry Lion Oldie (aka Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhenskiy), Andrei Valentinov and Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.

Yulia Andreeva writes:

“I kept this project to myself for quite a while. Eventually I did bring it to light.
Everyone asks me: “How can you work with these… ahem …titans?” I don’t mind. I’ve written about Herod the Great. Not much scares me after him.
I am so incredibly lucky. Everyone in this book has an amazing biography. There’s martial arts, archaeological excavations, and even underwater hunting. Happiness, sorrow, friendship, betrayal… But the most important is the tremendous work they do every day.”

And now for something completely different… Well, you know, not really… But… It’s…

THE BOOKTRAILER! The real thing mastered by Bronya Gromova, with English narration and subtitles added by Anastasia Dyachenko. Enjoy!

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Alisa Award for THE LAST CENTAUR!

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Serge Berezhnoy

The Last Centaur, 2012 Russian edition cover

The Last Centaur, 2012 Russian edition cover

Marina and Sergey Dyachenko’s THE LAST CENTAUR was proclamed “the best book for children and young adults” of the previous year and got Alisa Award at the Russia major national convention RosCon at March 29, 2013.

Rosman Publishing House, the publisher of the book, highlighted the news on their website:

THE LAST CENTAUR began the Dyachenkos’ touching and romantic trilogy about a kind and wise centaur Sebastian who has lost his people and is looking for friends among people and animals. It was published by Rosman in September 2012 and has won the warm affection of readers and critics. During the award ceremony, Sergey Dyachenko announced that the second book in the series had already been finished and the writers were working on the final book. “We do not know how the story will end yet, but this award has inspired us to explore something unprecedented” – said Sergey with the award in his hands.

Congratulations to Sergey and Marina Dyachenko on receiving the prize! The continuation of Sebastian’s story will be available to readers this autumn!

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“The White Guard” Won “The Golden Eagle” Award for the Best TV Production!

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Serge Berezhnoy
The Golden Eagle Award trophy

The Golden Eagle Award trophy

TV series “The White Guard”, based on the Marina and Sergey Dyachenko screenplay, was awarded by “The Golden Eagle” as the best Russian TV production of the 2012!

“The White Guard” is 6-hour mini-series TV adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel of the same title. Series dramatizes historical perturbations of Winter 1918-1919 in Kiev during the Russian civil war and focuses on family of Turbins found themselves in midst of tragic world-changing events. Sergey Snezhkin directed mini-series featured many popular Russian movie stars including Konstantin Khabensky (“Wanted”), Sergey Garmash (“House”), Fyodor Bondarchuk (“Inhabitad Island”) and others.

“The Golden Eagle” is a Russian equivalent of an “Oscar” and “Emmy” awards combined, most prestigious Russian annual award presented by National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia.

Aleksey Serebryakov in The White Guard as Feliks Nay-Turs

Aleksey Serebryakov in The White Guard as Feliks Nay-Turs

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Happy New Year! – And One More Film

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Serge Berezhnoy

Marina and Sergey just addressed to all of you with the holiday greets:

Dear Friends!

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year for all of you!

We have a modest gift for you – here is a short debute film made by our daughter Anastasia! Hope you’ll like it!

Yours,
Marina + Sergey

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VITA NOSTRA: Soon To Be Filmed!

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Serge Berezhnoy

We’ve got great news from the Moscow Film Market: not only screen rights for VITA NOSTRA sold to Bazelevs Production, but the movie already in pre-production with the script get ready and approved!

Timur Bekmambetov / Photo by Mikhail Popov

Timur Bekmambetov / Photo by Mikhail Popov

At the presentation of Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs Production company on the Moscow Film Market new projects were announced, including feature movie based on Marina and Sergey Dyachenko urban fantasy award-winning novel VITA NOSTRA (avaliable in translation as Kindle edition form Amazon.com). Movie script was written by Dyachenkos themselves and already was accepted by the producers. Project was set on fast track with the film premiere date aimed to the January 2014.

Timur Bekmambetov established himself as one of the Russian most successful movie directors after the premiere of fantasy horror Night Watch in 2004 and its sequel Day Watch in 2006. Since 2005 Bekmambetov has been working in Hollywood, where he directed and produced high budget action movie Wanted (2008), animated feature 9 (2009) and recent horror adventure Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012). At the same time he developed more success in Russia directing and producing several national box office hits.

Studio presenting Vita Nostra as potential hit for Russian national market with strong chances for subsequent international success.

It must be noted, that Kindle edition of the novel was published with Bekmambetov’s praise, partially quoted at the front cover:

“VITA NOSTRA is a fantasy, but a fantasy so authentic that, having turned its last page, I thought that Marina and Sergey Dyachenko somehow know everything that happened to me during the first year of my adult life. I am so grateful to them for giving me another chance to relive those experiences; with all the means of cinematography at my disposal, I will do my best to convey the magic of those times.”

It looks like the promotion campaign for the international Vita Nostra movie release get the early start.

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[Updated] VITA NOSTRA – Kindle Edition!

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Serge Berezhnoy
Vita Nostra, Kindle (UK) edition

Vita Nostra, Kindle edition

Breaking News: Kindle edition of VITA NOSTRA in translation of Julia Meitov Hersey can be downloaded right now from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk!

VITA NOSTRA became the second novel by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko available in translation for Anglophone readers (The Scar was the first).

“VITA NOSTRA—it’s a book that has the potential to become a modern classic of its genre.”
—Lev Grossman,
a novelist, a senior writer and book critic for TIME magazine

“VITA NOSTRA is a fantasy, but a fantasy so authentic that, having turned its last page, I thought that Marina and Sergey Dyachenko somehow know everything that happened to me during the first year of my adult life. I am so grateful to them for giving me another chance to relive those experiences; with all the means of cinematography at my disposal, I will do my best to convey the magic of those times.”
—Timur Bekmambetov,
film director, producer

Kindle edition was endorsed by authors’ representatives Trident Media Group, LLC.

Vita Nostra is modern literary fantasy novel with “coming of age” theme, first in associative Dyachenkos’ “Metamorphosis” cycle. The book got absolutely positive reception, it collected several professional and readers awards and was mentioned as one of the most important work of national speculative fiction of the decade (look for more details here).

 

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Pictures from THE LAST CENTAUR signing

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Serge Berezhnoy

Marina and Sergey Dyachenko attended signing of their new book THE LAST CENTAUR at Biblio-Globus Bookshop, one of the largest in Moscow, at October 2nd. The book is the fix-up children fantasy novel published by Rosman (the publisher of “Harry Potter” franchise in Russia) with beautiful illustrations by Mariam Saderdinova. You may look at PDF-sample of the first pages to get your own impression of her interior works.

Here are several pictures from the signing Marina and Sergey offered for our website (thanks!).

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THE SCAR – British Kindle Edition

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Serge Berezhnoy

The Scar, British e-book edition cover

The Scar, British e-book edition cover

Now you’ve got it: here is special Kindle edition of THE SCAR for readers from Great Britain ready for immediate download. The price is £1.90 (compare this to $13.99 actual price for American Kindle edition at Amazon.com). Great pricing, isn’t it?

Product Description:

What if Fyodor Dostoyevsky had written an Adventure novel? The result would be Sergey and Marina Dyachenko’s THE SCAR, a brilliantly written novel of redemption.

THE SCAR is something very special: it is a character examination of two people torn by disaster, their descent into despair, and their re-emergence through love and courage. Like Alexander Pushkin, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko mix dramatic scenes with romance, action and wit; like Nikolai Gogol, their style is direct, trenchant and even sarcastic. THE SCAR, lyrical and written with the sure hand of an artist, is the story of a character driven by his own feverish demons to find redemption.

The main character, Egert, begins as a brash, confident member of the elite guards and an egotistical philanderer. But after he kills an innocent student in a duel, a mysterious man known as “The Wanderer” challenges Egert, taunting him the way Egert has taunted countless others, then slashes his face with his sword, leaving Egert disfigured. Though the pain of the wound subsides, the scar that remains is a symbol of the curse of cowardice. Unable to end his suffering at his own hand, Egert then embarks on an odyssey to undo the curse and the horrible damage he has caused. It will not be a simple spell that breaks the curse, but a painful journey down a long and harrowing path.

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Meet French Edition of Varan!

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Serge Berezhnoy

Varan (aka Messeager du Feu), French 2012 editionVaran, the first novel of “Vagrant Spark” series, will get its French hardcover premiere November 3rd, 2012. Albin Michel / Wiz is the publisher.

The title of the book was changed to “Le Messager du Feu” and the cover was set on fire. Hope this will heat sells enough.

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(Updated!) “The Will of the Victory (A Doc Opera)” at Action On Film International Film Festival

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Serge Berezhnoy

Dyachenkos’ screenwrited documentary “The Will of the Victory (A Doc Opera)” made the nomination list of Action On Film International Film Festival in Pasadena, CA in USA. Film itself was nominated in 6 categories – “Best Editing – Documentary”, “Best Soundtrack Feature”, “Best Documentary Cinematography”, “Best Documentary”, “Best Documentary Political” and “Best Political Statement Movie”, and Robert Ferretti nominated as “Best Director – Documentary”.

Festival video presentation of the film was posted on YouTube, and here it is – with a guidance of Matt Berkowitz, producer and assistant editor. Enjoy.

There was no official winners list published yet, but we got some rumors… Well, let’s just wait a bit.

Update: “The Will of the Victory (A Doc Opera)” became a winner in “Best Editing – Documentary” nomination! Our congratulations to Robert A. Ferretti who directed and edited USA version of film!

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