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Read Russia Comes to London!

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Read Russia events at and around the London Book Fair (Booth Y455) include writer talks, new book presentations, and a sneak preview of “Russia’s Open Book,” a feature-length documentary hosted by author & actor Stephen Fry, narrated by actress Juliet Stevenson, and directed by acclaimed filmmakers Paul Mitchell and Sarah Wallis.  A co-production of Intelligent Television and Wilton Films, Russia’s Open Book brings viewers closer to the work of the most exciting authors writing in Russia today.

Several of the authors profiled in the film, including Ludmila Ulitskaya, Dmitry Bykov and Anna Starobinets, are participating in Read Russia London, where they will join translators, literary scholars and publishing professionals at the London Book Fair (Earls Court Exhibition Centre, April 15-17) and around London.  Featured writers include distinguished authors Oleg Pavlov and Maria Galina and Debut Prize winners Alexander Snegirev, Irina Bogatyreva.  UK-based writers Zinovy Zinik, Irina Kirillova, Layla Alexander-Garrett, and Hamid Ismailov also will be presenting. 

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The Read Russia! Anthology

Read Russia! An Anthology of New Voices (2012) is ready for your immediate PDF download and reading pleasure!

Read Russia! is filled to the digital brim with English-language translations of contemporary Russian fiction and nonfiction, 445 pages of literary feats from thirty Russian writers who have conquered book award juries and the hearts and minds of millions of Russian readers.

Edited by publishing veteran Elena Shubina and with an introduction by acclaimed translator Antonina W. Bouis, Read Russia! offers all this and more:

  • “Basileus,” a long story named for a cat, by Olga Slavnikova, winner of the Russian Booker prize for the novel 2017.
  • Zakhar Prilepin’s “Whatever Day of the Week It Happens to Be,” the first chapter/story in Sin, a novel-in-stories that won Russia’s National Bestseller and Super National Bestseller awards.
  • An excerpt from Alexander Terekhov’s The Stone Bridge, a historical thriller about the Stalin era that won second prize from the 2009 Big Book Award jury.
  • “The Life and Death of Nicholas II,” an excerpt from Edvard Radzinsky’s popular history book of the same name.

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The Russian Booker Prize

Shortly after the collapse of the USSR, the organisers of the UK's prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction flew to Moscow with a mission to resurrect the great Russian novel by establishing a Russian version of the Booker. Two decades later, Lady Emma Nicholson, widow of Booker founder Sir Michael Caine, tells the story.

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The Big Book Prize

Russia's most glittering -- and most lucrative - literature award is the National Big Book prize. The most recent winner, Mikhail Shishkin (Letter Book) talks about death, immortality and love, exclusively for Read Russia.

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Read Russia Online

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A Digital Companion to Russian Literature

Read Russia Online, now in the first stage of development, will become a curated online resource for the discovery and study of Russian literature. By presenting works of prose and poetry within networks of images, videos, audio files, historical documents, and scholarly commentary, this new resource will offer English-speaking audiences a dynamic interactive space for exploring Russia's rich literary culture.

The intended audience for Read Russia Online is broad: readers/users with limited knowledge of Russian literature will find the resource engaging and accessible. At the same time, scholars and students of Russian literature will find Read Russia Online a useful tool for research, teaching, and learning.  The curated space for original source material, contextualization, and critical commentary will meet the highest scholarly standards.

The primary objective of Read Russia Online will be to provide users with a vivid, informative experience of Russian literary culture. To that end, the resource will take advantage of web technologies to bring together materials that are not easily accessible or available in traditional print environments.  Read Russia Online will supplement, not simply mirror, trusted textual resources (encyclopedias, handbooks, histories, anthologies) and existing reference services (bibliographies, indexes, library catalogues) that long have been in use for the study of Russian literature.


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