One should not expect that the quality of mass interpretation of international and political realities will somehow alter with a change of the literary fashion
Public commentary on politics often relies on metaphors from works of fiction. At the same time, the set of books that journalists, politicians and the general public commonly refer to has been extremely limited recently. It is based on two multi-volume fantasy epics, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. Comparisons with “The Boy Who...
... writers. Nikolay Markotkin, the Council’s Media and Government Relations Manager, talks to Evgeny Chizhov about his novel “Translated from Word-for-Word Translation,” the specifics of the Russian identity, and the problems of promoting Russian literature abroad.
In a recent interview for our website, Vladimir Medvedev referred to you as an exception — the only author of novels based on the theme of Central Asia who is not biographically related to that region. Where does your interest in ...
... novel There Was No Adderall in the Soviet Union, published by AST publishing house in 2017, was a noteworthy event in Russian literary life. The book made it onto the longlist of several key literary prizes, as well as the shortlist of the NOS Annual Literature Prize 2017. Critics are already calling
calling her
“Russia’s new literary hope.”
At the same time, Olga Breininger is successfully managing to juggle her fiction writing and her academic work. After graduating from the Maxim Gorky ...
... today's books, providing a picture of the current life in our countries," he said, noting that a new level of bilateral relations have created new demand.
Under a translation and publication program of the two countries' classic and contemporary literature works, translated versions of up to 100 selected literary works would be published by each side.
Besides modern and contemporary works, the selected books also covered general humanitarian issues, history, philosophy, cultural studies, among ...
... will have. Nevertheless 80% of the repertoire of Russian cinemas is American movies and 30% of employees of Metropolitan Opera are Russian. With the Brits it’s always complicated, but on 25 February 2016 we opened the Year of Russian Language and Literature in Great Britain and on 27 April 2016 we are going to open the Year of the English Language and Literature in Russia. The opening will be marked by the launch of a metro train named after Shakespeare. And the list goes on. On 4 April 2016, ...
2015 has been declared the Year of Literature in Russia. In an interview with RIAC Web Content Editor Maria Smekalova writer
Sergei Shargunov
spoke about “Free Press,” quality literature and journalism, as well as shared his insights on the degradation of the educational system ...
2015 is the Year of Literature in Russia. One of Russia’s most popular writers,
Oleg Roy
, shares his insights on contemporary literature, the state of libraries and promoting a positive image of Russia abroad through literature and cinema.
Russia has always been famous ...
