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Read Russia at the Frankfurt Book Fair

The Institute of Translation, under the aegis of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication, will present the “Read Russia” program at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

During October 9-13, the Russian stand (pavilion 5.0, stand C 136) will display around 1,000 books from more than 60 publishers from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other Russian regions. There will be 40 events – both at the stand and at other venues at the fair– offering opportunities to meet with Russian publishers and literary agents who sell rights for publishing Russian writers, as well as with writers themselves. The writer delegation will include Albert Likhanov, Eugene Vodolazkin, Alexander Kabakov, Marina Stepnova, Maya Kucherskaya, Aleksey Varlamov, Maxim Amelin, Marina Akhmedova, Sergei Sedov, Igor Mikhailov, Viktor Erofeev, Arina Kaledina, Elizaveta Aleksandrova-Zorina, and Nikolay Nazarkin, as well as Russian writers living abroad, including Irina Muravyova, Valerii Voskoboinikov, Victor Bejlis, Aleksei Makushinsky, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Daria Wilke, and Dmitry Vachedin. Svetlana Alexievich, laureate of the 2013 Peace Prize of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, will be a special guest.

Translators of Russian literature will also take part in the program: Vera Bischitzky, Christiane Körner, Claudia Zecher, Annelore Nitschke, Andreas Tretner, Alexander Nitzberg, Elena Kostioukovitch, Yulia Dobrovolskaya, and many others.

Literary critics, editors, publishers, and other literature specialists will participate in a series of roundtables, seminars, and presentations about new developments in contemporary Russian literature; literary awards in Russia and abroad, including the “Read Russia” prize; as well as the Institute’s grant program and the “Russian Library” project for major world languages. Participants will include: Irina Barmetova, Natasha Perova, Galina Dursthoff, Elena Shubina, Tatiana Voskovskaya, Kseniya Moldavskaya, Irina Balakhonova, Dmitry Bak, Sergei Chuprinin, Valery Dudarev, Lev Danilkin, Georgy Urushadze, Alla Gladkova, Olga Aminova, Olgert Libkin, Dmitry Likhanov, Maria Vedenyapina, Yana Kovalskaya, Wolfgang Matz, Manfred Quiring, Dmitry Antsupov, Guntram Kaiser, Balthasar von Weymarn and Olga Vaulina.

The Russian stand’s children’s program will offer screenings of animated films, special “Russian Lessons,” and an exhibit of children’s book illustrations prepared by Anastasia Arkhipova, a member of the International Board on Books for Young People (pavilion 5.0 A 118, A 138).  The Institute’s full program of events may be found on the Frankfurt Book Fair Web page.

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