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16 Apr 2012, 14:30 - 15:30
Thames Room
Leading Russian writers Boris Akunin, Zakhar Prilepin, OlgaSlavnikova and Alexander Kabakov talk about their latest books and Russian literature today.
Russian Novelist and Literary Critic
Speaker
Olga Slavnikova is an eminent Russian novelist and literary critic. She was born in 1957 to a family of aerospace engineers in Sverdlovsk (now...
literary translator and a celebrated writer of detective fiction
Freelance
Born in the small Georgian industrial town of Zestafoni in 1956 to a Georgian father and Russian-teacher mother, Akunin is an essayist, literary...
Writer
Zakhar Prilepin was born near Ryazan in 1975. Prilepin had a varied life before dedicating himself to writing, spending time as a student, as a...
Author
Alexander Kabakov was born in 1943 into a military family. He graduated from Dnepropetrovsk University and after serving in the army, worked as an...