PROGRAMME OF EVENTS AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR
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Monday 11 April
Russian Pavilion, Stand W555, EC2
| Time | Venue | Event | Speakers |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Stand W555, EC2 | Official Opening of the Russian Pavilion |
Mr Sergei Naryshkin, Head of the Administration of the President of Russia Mr Dmitry Medvedev, HE Mr Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador of the Russian Federation, Mr Mikhail Shvydkoy, Special Representative of the President of Russia for Cultural Collaboration, Mr Alistair Burtenshaw, Director of the London Book Fair, Mikhail Seslavinsky, Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, Russian and international writers and publishers
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| 12.00 - 12.30 | Stand W555, EC2 | Russia: Book Market Report | Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, George Slowick Jr., President of Publishers Weekly |
| 12.30 - 13.00 | Stand W555, EC2 | The Russkiy Mir Foundation - supporting translation of Russian literature worldwide |
Tatiana Bokova, Irina Stepanova
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| 13.00 - 13.30 | Stand W555, EC2 |
The International Writers' Forum in St Petersburg
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Denis Kotov, 'Bukvoyed', the Russian Book Union |
| 13.30 - 14.00 | Stand W555, EC2 |
Russian Literature in Exile
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Natalia Solzhenitsyn, Edward Kasinec, Harriman Institute, Columbia University New York Public Library Emeritus, and Victor Moskvin, Russians Abroad Foundation |
| 14.00 - 14.30 | Stand W555, EC2 | Boris Yeltsin and New Russia | Alexander Drozdov, Director, The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, Boris Minaev, writer, author of a biography of the first president of Russia |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Stand W555, EC2 |
Affirmative Action Empire. The history of Stalinism in 100 volumes Presented by ROSSPEN and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center |
Alexander Drozdov, Andrei Sorokin, Sergei Mironenko, Arseny Roginsky, Yoram Gorlizki, prof. University of Manchester |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Stand W555, EC2 | Freedom and Responsibility: In Search of Harmony – by Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill I |
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, Archpriest Vladimir Silovyev, Head of the Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchate, and Brendan Walsh, Editorial Director of the Darton Longman & Todd Ltd
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| 15.30 - 16.00 | Stand W555, EC2 |
Moscow: City of Books. The Publishing Programme of the Government of Moscow
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Department of Mass Communications and Advertising of the Government of Moscow
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| 16.00 - 16.30 | Stand W555, EC2 |
A New Chapter. Russian Writing from the 21st Century. A Journey in Five Postcards. Reflecting on Russian Poetry |
Svetlana Adjoubei, Academia Rossica, Katharine Hodgson, Exeter University |
| 16.30 -17.00 | Stand W555, EC2 |
Leonid Parfenov, The Other Day. Our Times. 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s Everyday Russia’s life documented in hundreds of photographs and perceptive descriptions |
Leonid Parfenov, author, Arkady Vitruk, Azbooka-Atticus Publishers |
| 16.30 - 17.00 | Stand W555, EC2 |
International Young Publishers Meet Up |
Vladimir Grigoriev, Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, and Jon Slack, I.Y.P. network |
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 |
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Thames Room, EC1 | An Overview of the Russian Book Market Professional programme |
Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, Yury Deikalo, CEO, AST, Oleg Novikov, CEO,Eksmo
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| 10.00 - 11.00 | English PEN Literary Café, EC2 |
Andrei Bitov in conversation with Gillian Slovo |
Andrei Bitov, Gillian Slovo
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| 11.30 - 12.30 | Thames Room, EC1 | Digital Publishing in Russia Professional programme |
Sergey Anuryev, CEO, LitRes, Andrei Gelmiza, Knigabyte, Boris Makarenkov, Ripol, Boris Akunin Chair: Peter Collingridge, Enhanced Editions |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Thames Room, EC1 |
Reaching the Reader in the World's Biggest Country
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Marina Kameneva, CEO, Moskva bookshop, Shashi Martynova, Livebooks, Vladimir Samarov, Ozon
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| 14.30 - 15.30 | Thames Room, EC1 | Beyond the Classics: What are the Trends in Russian Literature Today? An overview of contemporary writing from the Market Focus country |
Leonid Yuzefovich, Olga Slavnikova, Maria Stepanova, Lev Danilkin Chair: Boyd Tonkin |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Thames Room, EC1 | Beyond the Headlines: Writing about Russia Today? How are the complexities of politics and society today seen and recorded by Russia's writers? To what extent do politics shape the current literary landscape? |
Zakhar Prilepin, Polina Dashkova, Mikhail Elizarov
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| 16.00 - 17.00 | English PEN Literary Café, EC2 | Alexander Ilichevsky in conversation with James Meek | Alexander Ilichevsky, James Meek |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Thames Room, EC1 | What's New about New Russian Writing? | Alisa Ganieva, Pavel Kostin, Andrei Kuzechkin, Igor Savelyev, Lev Oborin Chair: Ellah Allfrey |
New Literary Observer, Stand X305, EC2
| Time | Venue | Event | Speakers |
| 13.00 - 14.00 |
Stand X305, EC2 |
A Modern Artist as a True Novelist: British and Russian Experience | Stewart Home, Lev Rubinstein, Vladimir Tarasov, Grisha Bruskin. Chair: Zinovy Zinik |
| 15.00 - 16.00 | Stand X305, EC2 | Russian Dante: Dmitry A. Prigov and 21st Century Literary Creativity | Mark Lipovetsky, Ruth MacLennan, Alexander Skidan. Chair: Irina Prokhorova |
| 16.00 - 17.00 |
Stand X305, EC2 |
The Rise and Fall of Russian Intelligentsia in the Age of New Media |
Arkady Ostrovsky, Andrew Miller, Kirill Kobrin, Irina Prokhorova. Chair: John Lloyd |
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