READ RUSSIA comes to London
Read Russia, a dynamic initiative to introduce Russia’s contemporary writers and literary heritage to new audiences, invites British readers to celebrate Russian literature throughout London in April 2013.
Coinciding with the London Book Fair, Read Russia’s programme of events will bring Russia’s leading authors, translators, scholars and publishing insiders to the British capital to engage with readers on contemporary trends in Russian literary culture and Russia’s rich literary traditions.
Last year, Read Russia made a splash at international book fairs in Frankfurt, Barcelona, Vienna – and especially New York, where it was guest of honour at BookExpo America. Read Russia’s arrival in London in 2013 promises to be a rousing prologue to the Year of Russian Culture in Britain in 2014, which will offer a real feast for fans of Russian literature and culture.
This year’s event is much more than just a taste of things to come. Russia’s Open Book, a new featurelength documentary hosted by Stephen Fry and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Paul Mitchell, has its world premiere in London in April. This Intelligent Television production gets inside the minds of some of Russian literature’s brightest lights and explores the continuing mystique and power of the Russian novel.
Russia’s Open Book won’t be on television worldwide until the autumn, but Read Russia offers the chance to catch a sneak preview, and learn more about the story behind the film, at a press launch on 14 April.
Many of the writers who appear in the film, including Ludmila Ulitskaya, Dmitry Bykov and Anna Starobinets, will be meeting with readers in London, where they will join translators, literary scholars and publishing professionals in discussion – both at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre (15-17 April) and around the capital throughout the week. Featured writers include distinguished authors like Oleg Pavlov and Maria Galina, as well as the leading lights of the young generation Debut Prize winners Alexander Snegirev, Irina Bogatyreva – and well-known UK-based writers like Zinovy Zinik, Irina Kirillova, Layla Alexander-Garrett and Hamid Ismailov.
More information is available online at: www.readrussia2013.com.
Program of Russia's events on London Book Fair
15 April
Who is the Russian Writer? with Igor Sakhnovsky, Anna Starobinets, Oleg Pavlov, Maria Galina and Hamid Ismailov
11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Piccadilly Room
Official Opening of the Russian Stand
12:00 - 12:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Voices of Contemporary Russian Literature: The Big Book Prize, Russia’s Biggest Literary
Award, with Igor Sakhnovsky, Ludmila Ulitskaya and Maria Galina
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Women’s Writing and the Disabled in New Russian Prose, with Alexander Snegirev and Irina Bogatyreva
12:30 - 1:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Piccadilly Room
Translating Dr Zhivago and the Short Stories of Leskov, with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Piccadilly Room
The Next Generation’s Choice: the Kniguru Children’s Literature Prize
1:30 - 2:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
The 26th Moscow International Book Fair: A Preview
2:00 - 2:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
The Presentation of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center
2:30 - 3:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Russia Today through the Eyes of Young Authors
3:30 - 4:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Orenburg Publishing Programmes
4:30 - 5:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Anna Starobinets Book Signing
5:00 - 5:30 pm, Earls Court 1, London Book Fair, Stand N 500 (Hesperus Publishing)
16 April
Introducing Russian Literature to New Audiences: The Institute of Translation
10:00 - 11:00 am, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Read Russia Prize and Read Russia English Language Prize
11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Confronting the Modern World: New Russian Literature for Children and Young Adults
12:30 - 1:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Translating Contemporary and Classical Russian Literature: Approaches and Strategies
1:30 - 3:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Interactive Translation Workshop
3:30 - 5:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
The Hawks of Peace. The Notes of the Russian Ambassador by Dmitry Rogozin
Moderated by Olga Ro
05:00-06:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
17 April
Tatiana Daniliyants reads from her Poetry Collection, Read Noise
12:00 - 12:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Russia Beyond the Headlines, A Round Table with Robert Chandler, Maxim Hodak, Ignaty Dyakov, Natasha Perova
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Russian Post-Modernism: A Discussion with Hamid Ismailov
2:30 - 3:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Collector of Dreams, with Layla Alexander-Garrett
3:00 - 3:30 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
The Calvert Journal: A Guide to Creative Russia
3:30 - 4:00 pm, Earls Court 2, London Book Fair, Stand Y 455
Literary Showcase
12 April
Irina Kirillova on her memoir, Encounters with Remarkable Russians
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Waterstones Piccadilly, Russian Bookshop
14 April
Young Writers: Reflecting Russia Today, with Debut Prize winners Alexander Snegirev and
Irina Bogatyreva
2:00 – 4:00 pm, Waterstones Piccadilly, Russian Bookshop
15 April
Literary Matrix: Writers on Writers. Oleg Pavlov on Andrei Platonov
Moderated by Robert Chandler, translator
1:00 – 2:00 pm, Pushkin House
In Conversation with Igor Sakhnovsky
Moderated by Maxim Hodak, publisher
6:00 - 7:00 pm, Waterstones Piccadilly, Russian Bookshop
In Conversation with Ludmila Ulitskaya
Moderated by Julia Dobrovolskaya, literary agent
7.30 – 9:00 pm, Waterstones Piccadilly
Literary Matrix: Young Writers on Writers
Moderated by Natasha Perova, publisher
7.30 – 9:00 pm, Pushkin House
16 April
Literary Matrix: Writers on Writers. Anna Starobinets on Edgar Allan Poe
Moderated by Ursula Woolley, Pushkin House director
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Pushkin House
In Conversation with Oleg Pavlov
Moderated Marcel Theroux, publicist
7.30 - 9:00 pm, Waterstones Piccadilly, Russian Bookshop
In Conversation with Ludmila Ulitskaya
Moderated by Arch Tait, translator
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Rossotrudnichestvo
17 April
Literary Matrix: Writers on Writers. Igor Sakhnovsky on Osip Mandelstam
Moderated by Ursula Woolley, Pushkin House director
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Pushkin House
In Conversation with Anna Starobinets
Moderated by Julia Goumen, literary agent
7.30 - 9:00 pm, Waterstones Piccadilly, Russian Bookshop
Rising Stars of Russian Writing: Alexander Snegirev, Irina Bogatyreva
Moderated by Natasha Perova, publisher, editor
7:00 - 9:00 pm, The European Bookshop
18 April
Fathers and Children: The Art of Biografiction, with Zinovy Zinik and Margarita Gluzberg
6.30 - 8:00 pm, Waterstones Piccadilly
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