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Saturday 9 April

Time	Venue	Event	Speakers
14.00	Pushkin House, 5A, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA	The World of Children’s Literature Ticket info - www.pushkinhouse.org	Andrey Usachev
14.00	Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, City of London EC1R 3GA	German Sadulaev at the Free the Word! Festival Ticket info - www.freewordonline.com	German Sadulaev

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Sunday 10 April


Time	Venue	Event	Speakers
13.00	Foyles, Charing Cross, 113 – 119 Charing Cross, Road, London, WC2H 0EB	Lunchtime Bites Quickfire readings by authors from across the Free the Word festival including German Sadulaev Ticket info - www.freewordonline.com	German Sadulaev
14.00	David Game College, 69 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JS	Fun with Words Tatiana Bokova, a popular children’s writer, poet and composer meets her young audience	Tatiana Bokova

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Monday 11 April


Time	Venue	Event	Speakers
13.15	Pushkin House, 5A, Bloomsbury Sq, London WC1A	Mikhail Elizarov – Lunchtime Readings Open house for Russian writers lunchtime readings. Light refreshments provided Ticket info - www.pushkinhouse.org	Mikhail Elizarov
18.00	Pushkin House, 5A, Bloomsbury Sq, London WC1A	A Short History of Russian Literary Non-Conformism A diverse mixture of music, spoken word & multimedia performance, panel discussion, video films and poetry & prose reading Ticket info - www.pushkinhouse.org	Lev Rubinstein, Vladimir Tarasov, Irina Prokhorova, Alexander Skidan, Zinovy Zinik, Grisha Bruskin, Kirill Kobrin, Mark Lipovetsky, Andrei Rodionov, Linor Goralik, Alexei Kruglov
18.30	Victoria Library, 160, Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9UD	The Outsider Dina Rubina, author of Here Comes the Messiah! and Petrushka Syndrome and one of today’s most popular Russian writers, will talk on the value of community and cultural identity as a means of counterbalancing man’s internal world and essential loneliness. Having lived in Uzbekistan, Russia and now Israel, Dina Rubina’s multi-angled perspective of belonging and alienation is alive in all her works	Dina Rubina
19.00	Waterstones, 203-206, Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE	Nostalgia for Censorship Russia’s leading authors, Vladimir Makanin, Dmitry Bykov, Polina Dashkova discuss the controversial value of censorship for culture, the creative challenges involved in working around restrictions and the fatal attraction between the censor and the creator. Does censorship make the act of writing more exciting and more demanding? Ticket info - www.waterstones.com	Vladimir Makanin, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Dmitry Bykov, Polina Dashkova
19.00	Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA	Andrei Bitov in conversation with John O’Brien Your chance to discover one of modern Russia’s great writers in an intimate setting, talking to the founder of Dalkey Archive Press, publishers of Bitov’s acclaimed novel Pushkin House	Andrei Bitov, John O'Brien
19.00	London Review of Books, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL	War and Nationalism in Contemporary Russian Fiction Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, nationalism has become a potent and often deadly force in the Russian borderlands. In this discussion, a panel of authors and journalists talk about how the convulsions of war and the re-imagining of national identities have shaped contemporary Russian language fiction, and the role fiction and art plays in the wider debate	German Sadulaev, Zakhar Prilepin. Chair: Tony Wood
19.45	Royal Festival Hall, Level 5, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX	The Russian Classics Elif Batuman’s obsession with the lives and novels of the great Russian authors is encapsulated in her debut book, The Possessed which she discusses with Pavel Basinsky, who won the Big Book Award in Russia for Leo Tolstoy: Flight from Paradise. The authors discuss the legacy of great Russian writing today, both for writers and in the wider public consciousness Ticket info - www.southbankcentre.co.uk	Elif Bautman, Pavel Basinsky
19.45	St Paul’s Pavilion, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX	Polari Literary Salon Dmitry Kuzmin will join other writers at Paul Burston’s peerless literary salon Ticket info - www.southbankcentre.co.uk	Dmitry Kuzmin Chair: Paul Burston

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Tuesday 12 April


Time	Venue	Event	Speakers
13.15	Pushkin House, 5A, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA	German Sadulaev – Lunchtime Readings Open house for Russian writers lunchtime readings. Light refreshments provided Ticket info - www.pushkinhouse.org	German Sadulaev
18.00	D1 Hong Kong theatre, Clement House, LSE, Aldwych	Leonid Parfenov at the London School of Economics and Political Science Hosted by the LSESU Russian Business Society and LSESU Russian Society	Leonid Parfenov
18.30	Foyles Bookshop, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB	Bookshop Barnie with Martin Sixsmith on 'Russia: A 1,000-year Chronicle of the Wild East' Bookshop Barnie hosted by Austin Williams, Future Cities Project Nothing less than a reinvention of the book launch format, this salon discussion with challenge the author to justify his work in front of an invited audience of specialists and critics, forcing him to take a stand for his ideas Ticket info - www.foyles.co.uk	Martin Sixsmith Chair: Austin Williams
19.30	Pushkin House, 5A, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA	Tolstoy: A Russian Life Ticket info - www.pushkinhouse.org	Rosamund Bartlett

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Wednesday 13 April


Time	Venue	Event	Speakers
13.15	Pushkin House, 5A, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA	Dina Rubina – Lunchtime Readings Open house for Russian writers lunchtime readings. Light refreshments provided Ticket info - www.pushkinhouse.org	Dina Rubina
18.00	Pushkin House, 5A, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA	Literature is More Than Language! Ticket info - www.pushkinhouse.org	Margarita Hemlin
18.30	Foyles Bookshop, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB	Crimes and Misdemeanours: Russian Detective Fiction Often referred to as the ‘undisputed champion’ of Russian crime fiction, Boris Akunin has plumbed the depths of tsarist Russian history as inspiration for his sinister characters and labyrinthine plots. This evening he sheds light on the truth behind the fiction and the differences between British and Russian crime Ticket info - www.foyles.co.uk	Boris Akunin
18.30	Westminster Reference Library, 35 St. Martin’s Street, London WC2H 7HP	The Freedom of Fantasy Fantasy plays a crucial role in new Russian writing. Olga Slavnikova, acclaimed author of 2017 and Lightheaded, looks at why contemporary Russian writers opt against the realism of classic writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and instead continue in the line of Bulgakov and Platonov, expressing reality through a mix of fantasy and other genres	Olga Slavnikova
19.00	Waterstones, 203-206 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE	Mysticism and Religion in Contemporary Russian Literature Mysticism and religion have been an integral part of Russian culture for centuries, with Russian Orthodox practices, folklore, and Eastern traditions of shamanism often influencing and merging with each other. While these beliefs were underplayed or suppressed during much of the Soviet Union, there has since been a revival of interest in spirituality, which has been reflected in new Russian writing by authors such as Vladmir Sharov, Maria Galina, Mikhail Weller, Oleg Pavlov and Denis Osokin Ticket info - www.waterstones.com	Vladimir Sharov, Maria Galina, Mikhail Weller, Oleg Pavlov and Denis Osokin
19.45	Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX	The Soviet Dream Marking the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned space flight, three writers explore the Soviet Union of the 50s and 60s, in which the planned economy would outstrip capitalism, and communism would be the economic model of the future Ticket info - www.southbankcentre.co.uk	Lev Danilkin, Francis Spufford Chair: Orlando Figes
20.00	Saison Poetry Library at the Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX	From Russia in Verse The best of Russia’s contemporary poets come together for an evening of readings at the Poetry Library, Southbank Centre. The six writers appearing represent the amazing breadth and quality of today’s vibrant poetry scene in Russia	Linor Goralik, Andrei Rodionov, Dmitry Kuzmin, Lev Rubinstein, Maria Stepanova, Marina Boroditskaya

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Thursday 14 April


Time	Venue	Event	Speakers
17.30	Hendon Central Library, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BQ	Brave New World Anna Starobinets and Alexander Garros will present their hip, cutting edge books, an orginal take on the fantasy genre: An Awkward Age, a creepy, yet tantalising prize winning collection of horror stories and Headcrusher, a best selling cinematic, frenzied cyberthriller. At the forefront of the new wave in Russian writing, they offer a chance to glimpse into the Russia of today	Anna Starobinets, Alexander Garros
18.30	Foyles Bookshop, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB	Contemporary Russian Fantastical Fiction Russian literature has often toyed with the boundaries of reality, and its science fiction and fantasy have pushed those lines even further. On the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space, two pioneering writers of the future fiction genre make a rare visit to the UK Ticket info - www.foyles.co.uk	Sergei Lukyanenko, Dmitry Glukhovsky
18.30	Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA	From Russia with Attitude Meet new young writers from Russia at the Free Word Centre	Pavel Kostin, Andrei Kuzechkin Chair: Doug Wallace
18.30	Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX	Video poetry with Andrei Rodionov Andrei Rodionov is at the forefront of contemporary Russian performance poetry, the organiser of the first national Russian slam final, and a video poetry pioneer, one of the most dynamic and exciting areas of the Russian arts scene, a fusion of the moving image, poetry and music. Enjoy this rare chance to see him perform at London’s leading poetry venue. MC Joelle Taylor Ticket info - www.poetrysociety.org.uk	Andrei Rodionov
19.00	Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN	Spy Wars – The Fiction behind the Truth Presented by New Statesman and Academia Rossica. Russia and Britain both have great traditions of espionage, and of spy fiction. How much have these developed in parallel, and how has reality shaped fiction and vice versa? Russia’s Boris Akunin and Sergei Kostin go head to head with Henry Porter, one of the giants of British spy fiction, and Christopher Andrew, author of the authorised history of MI5 as well as of the controversial Mitrokhin Archive Tickets and further information on www.newstatesman.com	Christopher Andrew, Henry Porter, Boris Akunin, Sergei Kostin, Bridget Kendall
19.45	Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX	The Russian Future Some of the brightest young stars in contemporary Russian literature are presented by the Southbank Centre. This event is supported by the Debut Prize Ticket info - www.southbankcentre.co.uk	Anna Starobinets, Igor Savelyev, Lev Oborin and Alisa Ganieva

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Friday 15 April


Time	Venue	Event	Speakers
18.30	Calvert 22, 22 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP	Life As It Is The critically acclaimed Mikhail Shishkin reads from his latest novel and discusses the importance for a writer to grasp the world around him. The exhibition Practice of Everyday Life – Young Artists From Russia forms the backdrop to this event at the forward thinking Ticket info: www.calvert22.org	Mikhail Shishkin