Read Russia! at BookExpo America

 

1 - 8 June 2012, New York City

 

 

This year, Book Expo America (BEA) – North America's premier gathering of book trade professionals – will spotlight Russia as the country of honour at its Global Market Forum. In connection with BEA activities, an international team of academic and cultural programmers has come together to produce Read Russia 2012, a city wide festival of contemporary Russian arts and culture.

 

Read Russia 2012 will take place from June 1 to June 8 at leading cultural institutions and social venues across New York City. Sponsored by the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications under the direction of Vladimir Grigoriev, the festival offers audiences outside BookExpo opportunities to engage in a cross-cultural dialogue with the new generation of Russia’s literary leaders and newsmakers. In addition to making available new English translations of contemporary and classic Russian literature, Read Russia will present a major exhibition of children’s book illustrations, a travelling film series, a new documentary television project about Russian literature, as well as a comprehensive Literary Showcase that will serve as the focal point of the festival.   

 

 

Literary Showcase

 

Over 25 contemporary Russian writers will visit New York during the festival week, among them literary and journalistic forces such as Dmitry Bykov, Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Makanin, Edward Radzinsky, Master Chen, and Mikhail Shishkin. The diversity of these writers and the genres in which they work – from historical fiction to detective novels to stream-of-consciousness prose – allow for a dynamic programme that will appeal to different audiences. In moderated panel discussions,readings, writing workshops, and film
screenings of literary adaptations, the writers will discuss their works in the context of historic Russian literary traditions as well as present-day universal political and cultural themes.

 

For the latest information on Read Russia 2012 at BookExpo America, please visit www.readrussia2012.com

 

 

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