The London Book Fair’s Market Focus programme for Russia 2011 is organised with the British Council, as their strategic partner, and The Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication and Academia Rossica as their official partner.
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Echos of the past: Russian Historical Fiction |
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EC Thames Room |
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Ludmila Ulitskaya, Evgeniy Vodolazkin, Alexander Terekhov, Leonid Yuzefovich, Elena Chizhova Chair:
Rosie Blau |
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Boris Akunin - London Book Fair Author of the Day |
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English PEN Literary Café |
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Boris Akunin Chair:
Andrew Bromfield |
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A Different Perspective: Russian Writing Abroad |
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EC Thames Room |
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Dina Rubina, Mikhail Shishkin, Mikhail Gigolashvili Chair:
Maya Jaggi |
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Bestselling Genre Fiction in Russia. |
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EC Thames Room |
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Sergei Lukyanenko, Tatiana Ustinova, Dmitry Glukhovsky Chair:
Rosie Blau |
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In discussion: Boris Akunin with his translator Andrew Bromfield |
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Literary Translation Centre |
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Boris Akunin Chair:
Andrew Bromfield |
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In From the Cold: Does Russian Poetry Translate? |
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Literary Translation Centre |
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Marina Boroditskaya, Sasha Dugdale, Catriona Kelly Chair:
Robert Chandler |
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Literary prizes in Russia |
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EC Thames Room |
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Olga Slavnikova, Mark Lipovetsky, Valdimir Makanin, Vladimir Tolstoy, Alexander Gavrilov Chair:
Boyd Tonkin |
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Dmitry Bykov in conversation with Angus Kennedy |
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English PEN Literary Café |
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Dmitry Bykov Chair:
Angus Kennedy |
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Russian Memory and Memoir |
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EC Thames Room |
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Pavel Basinsky, Lev Danilkin, Zakhar Prilepin, Dmitry Bykov Chair:
Rosie Goldsmith |
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Children's Literature in Russia |
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EC Thames Room |
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Marina Boroditskaya, Olga Maeots, Andrey Usachev, Anna Starobinets, Tatiana Bokova Chair:
Julia Eccleshare |
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The World of Children's Literature in partnership with Znaniye (Russian language school) at Pushkin House |
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Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA |
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Andrey Usachev |
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Homeland Insecurities - part of the Free the Word! Festival by International PEN |
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Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA |
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German Sadulaev, Tahar Ben Jelloun |
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Lunchtime Bites - part of the Free the Word! Festival by International PEN |
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Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA |
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German Sadulaev |
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Lunchtime Readings in partnership with Pushkin House |
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Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA |
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Mikhail Elizarov |
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Andrei Bitov in conversation with John O'Brien - in partnership with the Free Word Centre |
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Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA |
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Andrei Bitov, John O'Brien |
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War and Nationalism in contemporary Russian fiction - in partnership with the London Review of Books |
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London Review of Books Bookshop, 14 Bury Place London WC1A 2JL |
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German Sadulaev, Zakhar Prilepin, Tony Wood |
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The Russian Classics - in partnership with the Southbank Centre |
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Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX |
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Elif Bautman and Pavel Basinsky |
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Polari Literary Salon |
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St Pauls Pavilion, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX |
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Dmitry Kuzmin, plus others hosted by Paul Burston |
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Lunchtime Readings - in partnership with Pushkin House |
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Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA |
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German Sadulaev |
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Bookshop Barnie with Martin Sixsmith on Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East - in partnership with the Future Cities Project |
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Foyles Bookshop, 113 - 119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB |
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Martin Sixsmith and Austin Williams |
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Tolstoy: A Russian Life in partnership with Pushkin House |
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Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA |
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Rosamund Bartlett |
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Lunchtime Readings in partnership with Pushkin House |
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Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2TA |
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Dina Rubina |
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Crimes and Misdemeanours: Russian Detective Fiction - in partnership with Foyles Bookshop |
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Foyles Bookshop, 113 - 119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB |
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Boris Akunin |
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The Soviet Dream - in partnership with the Southbank Centre |
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Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX |
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Lev Danilkin, Francis Spufford, Orlando Figes |
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From Russia in Verse |
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Saison Poetry Library at the Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX |
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Linor Goralik, Andrei Rodionov, Dmitry Kuzmin, Lev Rubinstein, Maria Stepanova, Marina Boroditskaya |
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From Russia with Attitude - in partnership with the Free Word Centre |
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Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA |
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Doug Wallace, Pavel Kostin and Andrei Kuzechkin |
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Contemporary Russian Fantastical Fiction in partnership with Foyles Bookshop |
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Foyles Bookshop, 113 - 119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB |
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Sergey Lukyanenko, Dmitry Glukhovsky |
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Spy War - The Fiction Behind The Truth |
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Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR |
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Henry Porter, Boris Akunin, Sergei Kostin |
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The Russian Future - in partnership with the Southbank Centre |
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Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX |
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Anna Starobinets, Igor Savelyev, Lev Oborin and Alisa Ganyieva |
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The Poetry Vitamin - in partnership with Modern Poetry in Translation |
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Oxford Literature Festival, Corpus Christi College, Merton Street, Oxford OX1 4JF |
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Michael Rosen and Marina Boroditskaya chaired by David Constantine |
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Russian readings and discussions - in partnership with the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature. |
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Storytelling Centre, 33 Dundas St, Edinburgh EH3 6QQ |
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Alexander Ilichevsky and Leonid Yuzefovich |
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Pavel Basinsky in discussion - in partnership with the University of Leeds |
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The University of Leeds |
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Pavel Basinsky |
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Culture Lab: An evening with Russian writers -in partnership with Newcastle University |
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Newcastle University, Grand Assembly Rooms, King's Walk NE1 7RU |
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Lev Rubinstein, Maria Stepanova, Dmitry Kuzmin |
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Projecting Wales/Rediscovering Russia - in partnership with Wales Literature Exchange and Aberystwyth University |
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Aberystwyth University |
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Linor Goralik, Alexandra Borisenko, Victor Sonkin, Ned Thomas, Wiliam Owen Roberts |
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Russian Writers in Durham - in partnership with New Writing North |
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Leech Hall, St John's College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ |
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Mikhail Shishkin, Elena Chizhova, Rosamund Bartlett, Prof Peter Waldron |
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