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Russia is Paris Book Fair honored guest

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Russia is Paris Book Fair honored guest


15.03.2018


Paris Book Fair is opening in the capital of France. An honored guest this year is Russia, RIA Novosti informs.

World-known Russian writers and new promising authors are going to reveal mysteries of contemporary literature at the fair. Olga Slavnikova, Sakhar Prilepin, Marina Stepanova, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Roman Senchin and many others will meet their readers.

Literature admirers will attend master-classes, new books presentations, a commemorative evening of Vladimir Vysotsky, literature debates. Events devoted to 200th birth anniversary of Ivan Turgenev, 100th birth anniversary of Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn, 150th birth anniversary of Maxim Gorky and 125th birth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky will be held as a part of the Russian agenda. Literary heritage of Solzhenitsyn will become the central topic of the round table to be held in UNESCO headquarters.

First four books of the Russian Library will be presented at the fair, including works by Andrei Bely, Aleksey Tolstoy, Yuri Annenkov. A separate volume is dedicated to Ivan Turgenev. The plan is to publish 100 volumes of the best literature works by Russian writers translated into French.

Visitors will be able to have a look at such contemporary collections as Moscow: a Meeting Point and In St. Petersburg to live and take part in presentation of a new novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky The Twilight. A main surprise prepared by Russian participants will be a simultaneous chess session with the 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov.

President of National Publishing Association Vincent Montagne and the head of the Fair has underlined that this year he expects a revived bilateral dialogue, which is to reinforce unique literary ties between France and Russia.

Paris Book Fair is the largest exhibition of the kind in France with participation of 43 countries. More than 80 conferences, meetings with writers and movie demonstrations are on the agenda of the event.

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