PROGRAMME OF EVENTS AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR
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Wednesday 13 April
Russian Pavilion, Stand W555, EC2
| Time | Venue | Event | Speakers |
| 11.30 - 12.00 |
Stand W555, EC2 |
Learn Russian Today!
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Tatiana Bokova, Irina Stepanova, Russkiy Mir Foundation |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Stand W555, EC2 |
The Russian Prize - The International Literary Award Russkaya Premiya
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Tatiana Voskovskaya, director, Alexander Drozdov, Director, The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, German Sadulaev, writer, member of the jury Russkaya Premia Award |
| 12.30 - 13.00 | Stand W555, EC2 |
Zavidovo: A Publishers Paradise. Modernisation of Russia through Arts and Publishing
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Natalia Solzhenitsyn, Edward Kasinec, New York Public Library and Victor Moskvin, Russians Abroad Foundation |
| 13.00 - 13.30 | Stand W555, EC2 |
Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky: The Epoch - Life - Collection
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Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian art collector and publisher, Victor Moskvin, Russians Abroad Foundation |
| 13.30 - 14.00 | Stand W555, EC2 |
A Thousand Years of Inventions
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Sergei Ivanov, author, Sergei Parkhomenko, publisher |
| 14.00 - 14.30 | Stand W555, EC2 |
Harry Potter and… the Russian Orthodox Church
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Deacon Andrey Kuraev, Professor of Moscow Theological Academy, Lecturer of Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Stand W555, EC2 | Video Poetry A programme of stunning fusions of poetry, film and music |
Andrei Rodionov, poet, Katya Troepolskaya, art curator |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Stand W555, EC2 | Russia Market Focus London Book Fair-BookExpo America Handover Ceremony | Alistair Burtenshaw, Director of the London Book Fair, Stephen Rosato, Director of the BookExpo America, Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency of Mass and Press Communications, Russian and international writers and publishers |
| Professional Programme / Seminars / Author Interviews | |||
| Thames Room, Earls Court 1 (EC1) | |||
| English PEN Literary Café, Earls Court 2 (EC2) | |||
| Literary Translation Centre, Earls Court 2 (EC2) | |||
| Time | Venue | Event | Speakers |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
English PEN Literary Café, EC2 |
Rossica Young Translators Award |
Pamela Davidson, Andrew Bromfield, Katharine Hodgson, Svetlana Adjoubei |
| 11.30 - 12.30 | English PEN Literary Café, EC2 |
Mikhail Shishkin in conversation with Colin Thubron
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Mikhail Shishkin, Colin Thubron |
| 11.30 - 12.30 | Thames Room, EC1 |
Academic Publishing in Russia
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Lynette Owen, Pearson, Oleg Zimarin, Ves Mir, Natasha Bochorishvili, CUP, Vladimir Stabnikov, Olympus Business Books |
| 13.00 - 14.00 |
English PEN Literary Café, EC2
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Alisa Ganieva in conversation with Maya Jaggi
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Alisa Ganieva, Maya Jaggi |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | English PEN Literary Café, EC2 | Russia-China Market Focus Handover Ceremony By invitation |
Alistair Burtenshaw, Director of the London Book Fair, Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency of Mass and Press Communications, representatives of Chinese publishing industry, Russian and international writers and publishers |
| New Literary Observer, Stand X305, EC2 | |||
| Time | Venue | Event | Speakers |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Stand X305, EC2 |
TRANSCRIPT – a new grant to support the translation of Russian literature into foreign languages
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Irina Prokhorova |
| 11.00 13.00 | Stand X305, EC2 |
English Booker and Russian NOSE: Open to the Floor
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John Freeman, Tibor Fischer, Lee Rourke, Mark Lipovetsky, Kirill Kobrin, Alexander Skidan. Chair: Irina Prokhorova |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Stand X305, EC2 | Found in Translation A new language can give a book a new lease of life. How do translators and publishers achieve this? |
Alessandro Gallenzi, John O’Brien, Robert Chandler, Oliver Ready, Alexander Skidan, Zinovy Zinik. Chair: Anna Aslanyan |
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