Literary Showcase Participants

Andrey Kuraev

Deacon Andrey Kuraev is a professor at the Moscow Theological Academy and a lecturer at Moscow State University. Kuraev, who studied history and philosophy at Moscow State University, also attended the Moscow Theological Seminary and Moscow Theological Academy.

Photo Credit: D.V. Kuraev


Irina Muravyova

Irina Muravyova is a Russia émigré writer whose poetry, essays, and fiction have been published in numerous “thick” journals in Russia and the U.S. Muravyova’s recent novel The Angel’s Day covers three generations of Russian émigrés, drawing on favorite themes of family and history; her Young Lady, a Bunin Prize finalist, takes place in the early twentieth century. Muravyova’s 2012 novel, Beatrice’s Reflection, borrows from Dante’s life in its depiction of love at first sight.

Photo Credit: Dmitry Rozhkov, creative commons


Alexander Drozdov

Alexander Drozdov is executive director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, an organization founded in 2009 to study and develop the institution of the presidency in Russia. The Center is home to a museum and a branch of the Yeltsin Library, and works on political and social issues.


James Rann

James Rann coordinates the Rossica Prize and the Rossica Young Translators Award for Academia Rossica, a prize Rann himself won in 2009. Rann’s translation of Anna Starobinets’s The Living is forthcoming from Hesperus.


Svetlana Adjoubei

Svetlana Adjoubei is founding director of Academia Rossica, an independent cultural organization established in 2000 in London and Moscow to promote and strengthen cultural and intellectual ties between Russia and the English-speaking world.


Peter Blackstock

Peter Blackstock is an editorial assistant at Grove/Atlantic who edits and acquires books. Blackstock, who reads German, Russian, French, and Bulgarian, worked previously as a literary scout in London.


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