The collected prose works covers

Here are the Serbian and English language edition covers of the first volume of Zoran Zivkovic’s collected prose works, to be brought out in October by the Belgrade based “Zavod” Publishers.

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Novels

The first volume, Novels, comprises seven titles (nearly 900 pages):

1. The Fourth Circle

2. The Writer

3. The Book

4. Hidden Camera

5. The Last Book

6. Escher’s Loops

7. The Ghostwriter

The second volume, Impossible Stories, is scheduled for early 2010.

Two more Slovenian editions

The Ljubljana based publisher “Blodnjak” acquired the Slovenian language rights in two more Zoran Zivkovic’s novels — The Last Book and The Ghostwriter.

“Blodnjak” has already published The Fourth Circle (2006), The Bridge (2008), The Library (2008), Miss Tamara, The Reader (2008) and Amarcord (2009), and intents to keep bringing out Zoran Zivkovic’s books.

The Slovenian editions of The Last Book and The Ghostwriter are due for publication by the end of the year.

Zoran Zivkovic’s collected prose works in Serbian and English

The leading Serbian publisher “Zavod” acquired the exclusive rights in Zoran Zivkovic’s collected prose works both in Serbian and English. The Serbian language rights refer to the territory of Serbia, while the English language rights refer to the territory of former Yugoslavia.

The two slipcased editions will be published in two large luxurious hard-cover volumes each.

The first volume, Novels, will comprise seven Zoran Zivkovic’s novels (392,000 words): The Fourth Circle, The Writer, The Book, Hidden Camera, The Last Book, Escher’s Loops and The Ghostwriter.

The second volume, Impossible Stories, will contain ten Zoran Zivkovic’s collections (283,000 words): Time Gifts, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, The Library, Steps through the Mist, Four Stories till the End, Twelve Collections, The Bridge, Miss Tamara, the Reader and Amarcord. Along with five uncollected stories (“Compartments”, “The Teashop”, “The Square”, “The Telephone” and “First Photograph”) there will be a total of seventy stories.

The two language editions of the first volume, Novels, will appear for the occasion of the 2009 Belgrade Book Fair, in late October. The two language editions of the second volume, Impossible Stories, are scheduled for early 2010.