London Book Fair «Academia Rossica

For the third year running ACADEMIA ROSSICA will be organising the official Russian stand at the London Book Fair 2010, with the help of the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication and the British Council.

Building on the success of last year, our 2010 stand will offer an even greater resource for publishers to form links with the booming Russian publishing industry, in advance of the LBF 2011, where Russia has been named the guest of honour.

Please join us at our stands (Y455 and Y435) or at our seminars to discover more about what new Russian writing has to offer and to form crucial contacts with key figures in the Russian literary industry.

We have a limited number of guest passes for the LBF. Please contact Daniela@academia-rossica.org for further information.

LBF 2010 Russian Programme

19 April, Monday – Publishers Day

11.00 – Official opening of the BOOKS FROM RUSSIA stand (Y455, EC2) by the Ambassador of the Russian Federation HE Mr Yury Fedotov

11.30 - Press conference with Vladimir Grigoriev, Dmitry Bykov, Sergey Lukyanenko, Olga Slavnikova and other Russian guests (Y455)

12.00 - Presentation of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre's publishing programme 'History of Stalinism' by director Alexander Drozdov (Y455)

12.30 - Presentation of the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature's publishing programme by director Ekaterina Genieva (Y455)

13.00 - 'The Kremlin: the Secret of Power' - presentation by Inna Lipatova, CulturaLab, of the Moscow Kremlin Museum's multimedia project.

14.30 – Seminar: Who Rules the Russian Book Market Today? Speaker: Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Marlborough Room)

17.00 – Drinks reception at the BOOKS FROM RUSSIA stand (Y455, EC2) – an opportunity to meet key Russian publishers and authors

20 April, Tuesday – Authors Day

10.00 – Seminar: Between Realism and Mysticism – Contemporary Russian Fiction – Lev Danilkin in conversation with Olga Slavnikova, Maria Galina and Vladimir Sharov (Marlborough Room)

11.30 - Presentation of the Russkaya Premiya Prize, awarded to Russian-speaking writers living outside Russia. Speakers: Tatyana Voskovskaya, Russkaya Premiya coordinator; Sergey Chuprinin, chairman of the jury; winners of the 2009 prize - Aleksandr Kabanov and Sergei Timofeyev; Aleksandr Drozdov, director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre (Y455)

12.15 - Presentation 'Leo Tolstoy's Heritage - 100 years on' by Vladimir Tolstoy, great great grandson of the writer and director of the Yasnaya Polyana museum estate (Y455)

13.00 – Seminar: Two Visions of the Future - Sergei Lukyanenko and Dmitry Bykov interviewed by Bridget Kendall, BBC (Marlborough Room)

14.30 – Seminar: Voices from the Future – The Debut Prize for New Russian Writers. Speakers: Olga Slavnikova, Andrei Skoch, Natalia Perova and laureates of the Debut Prize (Marlborough Room)

16.00 – The Debut Prize reception and press conference. All are invited (Y455)

21 April, Wednesday – Translators Day

10.00 – The Rossica Translation Prize special commendation - presented to Stanley Mitchell - and the Rossica Young Translators Award 2010. Speakers: Alexander Drozdov, Robert Chandler, Oliver Ready, Amanda Love Darragh and Svetlana Adjoubei (PEN Literary Café, EC2)

11.30 - Russkiy Mir Translation Grants presentation. Speakers: Vladimir Grigoriev and Svetlana Adjoubei

12.00 – Russian Translators’ Forum. Speakers: Alexander Drozdov, Oliver Ready, Robert Chandler, Amanda Love Darragh. All translators are welcome (Y455)

16.00 – Market Focus Handover Ceremony & Champagne Reception. Join us for a celebration of Russia Market Focus 2011! (PEN Literary Café, Y455)

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