Booker shortlisted UK author A.D. Miller is visiting Moscow on the 30th November – 1st December to take part in the 14th Non/Fiction Book Fair and to present Russian edition of his fascinating debut novel “Snowdrops” published in October by Phantom Press to Moscow audience.

Andrew spent three years as a foreign correspondent for The Economist in Moscow in the middle of 2000 and has drawn some of his Russian experience to tell the story of Nicholas Platt - an expat lawyer who travels to the Russian capital to broker huge deals between banks, oil companies and property developers

"AD Miller's elegant and compact literary thriller...offers an alluring yet chilling portrait of the city...the pleasure of Miller's first novel is divining the precise nature of the deceptions, and self-deceptions, taking place. A superlative portrait of a country in which everything has its price, Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence reminiscent of Robert Harris at his best   "The Financial Times

PROGRAMME

			30 November (Friday) 18.30 – Meet the author: Andrew Miller introducing Russian edition of “Snowdrops” at the Moscow Book House (8 New Arbat str.) In English with consecutive translation
			1 December (Saturday) 13.00 – 14.00 - AD Miller in conversation with Alexander Gavrilov Non/Fiction Book Fair, Central House of Artist (10 Krymsky Val), Seminar Zone 1 In English with simultaneous translation
			1 December (Saturday) 16.00 – Meet the author: Andrew Miller introducing Russian edition of “Snowdrops” at the Biblioglobus book store (6/3 Myasnitskaya str.) In English with consecutive translation

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A.D. Miller Was born in London in 1974 and studied literature at Cambridge and Princeton. He worked as a television producer before joining The Economist.

In 2004 he became the magazine's correspondent in Moscow, travelling widely across Russia and the former Soviet Union. Snowdrops, his first novel, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and will be translated into 25 languages. He is currently The Economist's Writer at Large and lives in London with his wife and children.

Alexander Gavrilov is a cultural manager, literary critic, editor, and Head of the non-commercial organization Book Institute which conducts research for the book industry and holds lectures, festivals, and book fairs.

Prior to running the Book Institute, Alexander served for 10 years as the editor-in-chief of "The Book Review" - the oldest Russian weekly newspaper specializing in books. Alexander is also a co-owner of a book retail chain "Dodo Space", as well as the first program director of the Moscow International Open Book Festival, first coordinator of the «Debut» award, and  the director of book festival in Novosibirsk.