Read Russia organization to host its annual Russian literature Week in NYC from Dec. 7-11.
4:00 – 5:30 PM - Eugene Vodolazkin, author, on his new novel LAURUS and his research in Old Russian
NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Literary Translation
6:00 – 8:00 PM - Vladimir Sharov, author, BEFORE AND DURING, in conversation with Oliver Ready, 2015 READ RUSSIA PRIZE laureate, translator, and fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Dmitry Bak, Director, Russian’s State Museum for Literature
Soho House, 29-35 Ninth Ave, New York, NY 10014 (Place to be confirmed)
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Literary Translation
6:00 – 8:00 PM - The Real Story of Doctor Zhivago, Peter Finn, Washington Post and Marian Schwartz, translator
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY10282
The Bridge Series, and the PEN America Translation Committee
Co-sponsored by Russia Beyond the Headlines & The Russian Library
7:00 – 8:30 PM - The Documentary novel (in Russian) – Leonid Yuzefovich, author – interviewed by Vadim Yarmolinets, author
InfoCommons Lab, Brooklyn Public Library/Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Public Library
7:00 – 9:00 PM - Eugene Vodolazkin and translator Lisa Hayden in conversation about LAURUS
BookCourt, 163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Literary Translation, The Bridge Series, and the PEN America Translation Committee
6:30 – 8:30 PM - Russia's 2015 Year of Russian literature: A celebration
Featuring Dmitry Petrov, host, “Polyglot,” Kultura TV
Consulate General, Russian Federation, 9 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128
Co-sponsored by the Renova Group of Companies and the Renova Fort Ross Foundation
7:00 – 8:30 PM - Literature, language, history & time (in Russian)
Vladimir Sharov, author; Evgeny Vodolazkin, author; and Dmitry Petrov, host and producer of “Polyglot” on Kultura TV – moderated by author and translator Lisa Hayden
Dweck Center
Brooklyn Public Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Public Library
6:00 – 8:00 PM -“Solzhenitsyn: The Untranslated Oeuvre”
Peter Constantine, translator; Marian Schwartz, translator; other speakers TBD
Book Culture, 536 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025
Co-sponsored by the Kennan Institute, Russia Beyond the Headlines & The Russian Library
12:00 – 2:00 PM - Russian Library – Editorial Advisory Meeting (invitation only)
Columbia University Press, 61 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023
Co-sponsored by The Russian Library
6:30 – 8:30 PM - The Russian Nobel Laureates: On the works of Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Sholokhov, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, and Svetlana Alexievitch
Antonina W. Bouis, translator; Solomon Volkov, author; Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University; and Peter Constantine, translator
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022
Co-sponsored by the Renova Group of Companies and the Renova Fort Ross Foundation, and the Russian Library
Featured online film for Russian literature week - “Pushkin is Our Everything” - pushkinfilm.com
For more information visit www.readrussia.org
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