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 | Светлана АджубейFounding Director of Academia Rossica, editor of ROSSICA journal |
 | Alexander Arkhangelsky Writer, journalist and TV presenter, Alexander Arkhangelsky is best known for authoring and presenting the Russian television programme ‘Tem vremenem’ (Meanwhile) on the ‘Culture’ channel. He has been honoured by several prizes for his work in the television and he himself frequently appears on radio and television talk-shows as a commentator on contemporary society and literature. He is also a well published author of a number of books, including his latest novel 1962, and articles on Russian literature, many of which have been translated into foreign languages. He served on the jury of the Russian Booker Prize and others. Alexander’s wide experience of academe, the media and journalism makes him a most valuable commentator on many aspects of contemporary Russia and culture.
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 | Anthony BriggsProfessor Tony Briggs, Senior Research Fellow at Bristol University, has written, translated or edited more than twenty books on Russian and English literature. After gaining a reputation as a leading authority on Alexander Pushkin, he has turned to Tolstoy in recent years, writing for Penguin Books. His translation of 'Resurrection' is in press, 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Other Stories' has just been published, and his translation of 'War and Peace' (2005) has been widely acclaimed and described by an American critic as 'the best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English. |
 | Dmitry BykovBorn in 1967, Dmitry Bykov is a prolific, award-winning prose writer, whose works almost invariably give rise to heated debates in the literary press. He is also a widely published poet of some eight collections of poetry and he recently published an impressive, detailed new biography on Boris Pasternak, for which he was awarded the ‘Big Book' prize in 2007. Since the 1990s, Dmitry Bykov has produced a constant stream of newspaper articles, reviews and essays on a wide range of subjects from literature to politics. He has also hosted a weekly radio show and some television discussion programmes. Bykov goes out to court controversy and stimulate discussion, as can be seen in his recently published novel Zh.D., taken from two Russian letters of the alphabet: ‘It's going to be fiercely Russophobic and fiercely anti-Semitic,' he said just before the novel's publication. He went on, ‘It depicts both Russians and Jews as virus nations, which bring misfortune and decay to whatever they're trying to colonize. It's the best book I've ever written, it's actually the best book that can possibly be written today, and it's very, very funny.' Whatever else he might do, Dmitry Bykov is sure to cause a lively debate by his audacious originality! |
 | Alexander DrozdovAlexander Drozdov has been Director of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Foundation since its inception in November 2000. The foundation undertakes a broad range of educational, scientific, scholarly and cultural projects. It strives to promote cultural cooperation and an open exchange of ideas and information between Russia and the West. After establishing together with Academia Rossica the Rossica Translation Prize, the only prize for literary translation from Russian into English in the world, the foundation has subsequently establishes prizes for literary translation from Russia into French and Italian, with Spanish and German soon to follow.
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 | Orlando FigesOrlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a reputable writer of works on Russian history, most notably A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (1996), for which he was awarded the Wolfson Prize; Natasha's Dance (2002) and The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia (2007), all of which have been reviewed to international acclaim and translated into many foreign languages. He has appeared on many television and radio broadcasts, commenting on events in Russia and on Russian cultural and historical issues, and he is a regular book reviewer for the New York Review of Books. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. It is a great privilege to have Orlando as a speaker at Russian Literature Week. |
 | Elaine FeinsteinPoet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator Elaine Feinstein worked variously as an editor for Cambridge University Press, as Lecturer in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College, and as a journalist. She contributes to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement. Elaine Feinstein's first volume of poetry, In a Green Eye, was published in 1966. Her later work has been influenced by the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, a poet whose work she has translated from the Russian. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1990. Her book, Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin (2005), is a biography of Anna Akhmatova. Elaine Feinstein is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was elected on to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. |
 | Maria GalinaBorn in 1960. Poet, critic, translator, and science fiction writer with ten SF books to her credit. A graduate from Odessa University majoring in marine biology she took part in several sea expeditions. She has been a professional writer since 1995. She has won many prizes for both her prose and poetry. Her fiction contains a strong element of magic realism while gender issues have always been the focus of her attention.
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 | Alexander GavrilovEditor-in-Chief & Director Knizhnoe Obozrenie (The Book Review) |
 | Vladimir GrigorievVladimir Grigoriev is Councillor to Head of the Russian Federal Agency for the Press and Mass Communications and he is a tireless campaigner and champion of Russian literature and culture at all the world's major book fairs: he has famously said, ‘Russian literature should know no boundaries.' Born in 1958, Vladimir Grigoriev worked as an editor for the Novosti news agency from 1982 to 1990, after which he founded and headed the publishing house Vagrius. Vladimir Grigoriev has worked unflaggingly to promote and support the publication of Russian books and the protection of authorial rights during the difficult, transitional period from the old publishing protocol inherited from the former Soviet Union to the establishment of a new, market-oriented, internationally recognized modus operandi. He has been honoured with prizes in recognition of his work for services to Russian publishing and the dissemination of literature and culture not only in the Russian Federation (2001), but also in Poland (2005) and in France (2006). Grigoriev is also one of the founders of the prestigious book prize ‘Bolshaia kniga' (‘Big Book') - the second largest cash award, after the Nobel Prize. His unique insights into the increasingly buoyant and expanding market for Russian books makes him an extremely interesting and valuable speaker. |
 | Vladimir GusevDirector of the State Russian Museum |
 | Alexander IlichevskyAlexander Ilichevsky was born in Sumgait, Azerbaijan in 1970 and graduated from a technological institute affiliated to Moscow University in theoretical physics. He worked in scientific research in Israel and California from 1991 to 1998, whereupon he returned to live in Moscow with his family. He is the prolific author of many literary works in various genres, both poetry and prose, all of which have been published in Russia’s most prestigious literary journals, such as Novyi mir (New World), Oktiabr (October) – all to great literary acclaim. His novel Matisse, dedicated to all those born in 1970, like the author himself, won him the Russian Booker Prize in 2007 – one of a record seventy-eight works submitted for consideration for the prize that year. This outstanding achievement is not only testament to Ilichevsky’s great talent as a writer, but also to the fact that Russian literature is alive and flourishing today, perhaps as never before. |
 | Natalia IvanovaCritic, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Znamya Magazin |
Andrew NurnbergEstablished the Andrew Nurnberg Agency in 1977. This world renowned literary agency specialises in the sale of translation rights, representing leading authors of best selling fiction, business and management, history, biography and literary fiction. ANA has its headquarters in London with offices in Beijing, New York, and Moscow. |
 | Sergey ParkhomenkoEditor-in-Chief of Inastranka Publishing House, Journalist, Commentator and Programs' Moderator at the Radio Station, Political Reporter and Columnist (1991-1993; 1993-1995), Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Magazines (1996-2001) and (2001-2003). |
John ParsonsDistributes foreign books in Russia |
 | Natalia PerovaDirector of New Russian Writing and Glas Publishing House |
 | Irina ProkhorovaFounding Director of the Moscow publishing house New Literary Review, which is publishing hundreds of serious scholarly and academic books, as well as two of the most highly respected academic cultural journals. A former president of the Russian Booker Prize Committee. |
 | Oliver ReadyThe fist first winner of Rossica Prize, Translator, Research fellow in Wolfson College, Oxford |
 | Lev RubinsteinLev Rubinstein is one of the most important and original Russian poets. His unique poetic and performance styles germinate from his work as a librarian when he started recording his poems on the backs of catalog cards. His work was circulated through samizdat and underground readings in the unofficial art scene of the sixties and seventies, and found wide publication only in the late 1980s. Lev Rubinstein is also a regular columnist for the independent online newspapers "Grani". |
 | Olga SlavnikovaThe winner of Russian Booker Prize 2006. Director of “Debut” Prize. Grew up in Yekaterinburg in the Urals where she majored in journalism. A literary editor and critic, Slavnikova is the author of three widely acclaimed novels: A Dragon-fly the Size of a Dog, short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize (1997); Alone in the Mirror, short-listed for the Anti-Booker and winner of the Pavel Bazhov Prize; and Immortal, awarded the Critics' Academy Apollon Grigoriev Prize and short-listed for both the Belkin Prize and the National Bestseller Prize. |
 | Norman StoneNorman Stone has been described as ‘a legendary teacher’ when he was professor of modern history at Oxford University. Always controversial and never dull, his outspoken views on many aspects of European and Russian history are always thought-provoking and guaranteed to stimulate fierce debate. He is the prize-winning author of books on the First World War and Hitler. He was professor of modern history at Oxford from 1984 to 1995, from where he moved to take up the post of director of the Russian-Turkish Centre at Bilkent University, Ankara. For the last ten years he has divided his time between Oxford and Turkey, and he believes that living abroad there has given him a new perspective on Europe, and particularly on Russia, about which he has said, ‘When you realise that Tatar-Turkey dimension, you understand the thing an awful lot better.’
It is a privilege to have Professor Norman Stone as a guest at our Russian Language and Literature Week and audiences will not fail to be stimulated by his erudition and originality of thought.
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 | Zinovy ZinikNovelist and broadcaster. He was born in Moscow in 1945. He studied art and later geometrical topology at Moscow University. He emigrated in 1975 and worked as a theatre director for a student theatre group in Jerusalem. Since 1976 he has lived and worked in London. He regularly contributes to BBC Radio, the Times Literary Supplement and to other periodicals. He is editor and presenter of West End, a weekly radio show for the BBC Russian Service. Zinovy's seven novels have been translated into a number of European languages. His novel The Mushroom Picker was made into a film for BBC Television in 1994. His novel Russian Service, as well as a number of his short stories, were adapted for BBC Radio 3 and for Radio France. During the 1990s three of his novels in Russian were nominated for the Russian Booker in Moscow. Zinik's dramatic farce Here Comes the Tiger, set to music by Gerard McBurney, was first performed by The Gogmagogs at the London City Festival in 1999. His radio documentary on Berlin, After the Wall, (with Claudia Sinnig) was awarded the Bronze Medal at the New York International Radio Festival in 2001. His documentary radio drama My Father's Leg was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in 2003. Zinik's recent collection of short stories Mind the Doors was published in 2002 by Context Books, New York. Zinovy is a member of The Colony Room Club in Soho. |