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When: 3 December 16.00 – 18.00
Where: Central House of Artists, Press Centre
In partnership with The London Book Fair, Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications and Academia Rossica
When: 4 December 21:00
Where: Photoplay contemporary photo school
Moscow, Khokhlovskiy pereulok, 7
In partnership with Theory&Practice
Jeremy Ettinghausen is Digital Publisher at Penguin UK and has been responsible for a number of high profile digital initiatives including the 2001 launch of Penguin's first list of ebooks, the Penguin Remix competition, the collaborative wikinovel A Million Penguins, the acclaimed Penguin Blog and award-winning Penguin Podcast . In 2008 he launched We Tell Stories, an exercise in digital storytelling, which won the SXSW Interactive Best in Show award and he has recently launched We Make Stories, a suite of storymaking tools for children.
Kirsty Dunseath is Publishing Director of fiction at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Limited. Before joining Weidenfeld, she worked at Random House and The Women's Press. Her authors include Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Alice Walker, Paul Torday and Arturo Perez-Reverte. The Weidenfeld & Nicolson list itself has always been a champion of literature in translation and in 2009 it celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. Its distinguished list includes Bernhard Schlink, Jostein Gaarder, Boris Akunin, Vikram Seth and Michel Houellebecq; it was also the first UK publisher of the works of Vladimir Nabokov. The list continues to publish new voices from around the world such as Saša Stanišić from Bosnia, Enrique de Hériz from Spain, Stefan Brijs from Belgium, Christian Jungerson from Denmark, Kei Miller from Jamaica and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani from Nigeria.
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