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The literary action "Night in the Archive" will take place in Moscow
MOSCOW. In honor of the celebration of Pushkin’s birthday on June 6, Moscow will host the first of its kind socio-cultural event called “Archive Night”.
In Russia, a new literary award "Letters in Poems"
MOSCOW. On June 6, the start of the first All-Russian contest “Letters in Poems” will start, organized by Alexandra Hamilton.
Russians will celebrate Pushkin Day
MOSCOW. On Saturday, June 6, all of Russia will celebrate Pushkin Day, or the day of the Russian language.
The Vologda Fourth Literary Festival will be held in Vologda
VOGDA. In connection with the Year of Literature held in Russia in Vologda on June 18, a literary festival dedicated to Varlam Tikhonovich Sharlamov, a Russian prose writer and poet of the Soviet era, will open.
In Tver, summed up the festival "Singing Letters"
TVER. In Tver, the seventh annual International Poetry Festival “Singing Letters” ended, in which contestants from eight Slavic countries took part.
In New York, the awarding of the best translators of Russian literature
NEW YORK. On May 29, one of the oldest New York bibliophile clubs, the 130-year-old Grolier Club, hosted a ceremony to announce the winners of the Read Russia English Translation Prize 2015, awarded for the best English translation of classical and contemporary Russian literature.
In Moscow, the awarding of the winners of the New Pushkin Prize
MOSCOW. The awarding ceremony for the winners of the New Pushkin Prize for 2015 was held on May 26 at the metropolitan Pushkin Museum. For the first time, the Prize Council drew attention to children’s creativity.
Writers’ Union awarded the Crown Award
MOSCOW. Naum Korzhavin, a great poet and playwright who celebrates his 90th anniversary this year, became the winner of the “Crown” prize awarded by the Moscow Writers’ Union on May 23.
The sixth season of the Manuscript of the Year Award has been summed up
ST. PETERSBURG. As part of the International Book Salon in St. Petersburg on May 24 at the Rodina Cinema Center, the Manuscript of the Year award ceremony was held.
Joan Rowling is preparing to release a new detective
A new exciting story from a series of books about detective Carmoran Strike will soon appear on the shelves of bookstores.
X International Book Salon opened in St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG. From May 21 to May 24, the X International Book Salon will be held in the cultural capital of Russia, the participants of which were representatives from 14 regions of the Russian Federation and 20 countries of the world.
Hungarian writer became the winner of the International Booker Prize
LONDON. On May 19, the International Booker Prize for 2015 was presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The laureate was the 61-year-old Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasnakhorkai.
Finalists of the Big Book National Award named
MOSCOW. The expert council of the Big Book national award named the names of nine writers who reached the finals of the jubilee, tenth season, among whom were Victor Pelevin, Dina Rubina and Roman Senchin.
The letters of the Grimm brothers appeared on the network
CASSEL. On the official website of the University of Kassel in Germany, a message appeared that the digitized letters and documents of German storytellers and linguists Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, as well as their family members, are now available for free viewing on the Internet.
A new story about the legendary Baron Munchausen
The descendant of the outstanding Karl Friedrich Jerome von Munchausen Munchausen Vladimir Nagovo-Munchausen, who became the prototype of a famous literary character, wrote a new story that he plans to use to create a film about the adventures of the baron.