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From: Natasha Perova <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:41:35 +0400
To: seelangs <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [SEELANGS] DEBUT Prize event in London

Dear All
if you are in London on 20 August don't miss the chance to meet a group of
young Russian authors, winners of the Debut Prize, and the Debut director
Olga Slavnikova, Russian Booker winner for her novel "2017" published in
English this year.

Squaring the Circle: New Russian Writing from the Debut Prize

2010 marks the tenth anniversary of the Debut Prize, the prestigious
independent literary award for authors under the age of 25 writing in
Russian. It also marks the start of the international programme of the Debut
Prize, with writing by these dynamic new authors being published in English
for the first time.

ŒWe are witnessing a tectonic generational shift. The Debut is the only
organisation to cut such a broad swath through the far-flung layer of the
young [Russian] mind today‚ ˆ Nezavisimaya Gazeta

The 2000s have been, for younger Russian writers, a time of multiple
uncertainties. Here is the first generation born after the collapse of the
USSR and facing life where nothing is guaranteed but where there are a
multitude of possibilities. Where they are just able to live their lives and
write about them in any way they choose. It is a fundamental and profound
change for Russian literature. And it is a change that is being seen far
beyond Russian borders for the first time.

Join five Debut Prize winners and finalists as they make their British debut
in London at the Free Word Centre on Friday 20 August 2010 at 6.30pm. They
are:

-         Alisa Ganieva (pen name Gulla Khirachev), from Daghestan, the 2009
winner;

-         Arslan Khasavov, a Chechen national and 2009 Debut Prize finalist;

-         Victor Puchkov from a small town near Moscow, 2006 Debut Prize
winner;

-         Alexander Gritsenko, film and stage scriptwriter from Astrakhan
and winner of the 2005 Debut Prize for Drama;

-         Polina Klyukina, a journalist from Perm in the Urals, a 2008 Debut
Prize finalist.

They will be talking to Tibor Fischer, the acclaimed novelist who in 1993
was named as one of the 20 best young British writers by Granta magazine.
Also appearing will be a major novelist Olga Slavnikova, winner of the 2007
Russian Booker for her novel, 2017 published in English translation this
year, and Natasha Perova, publisher of the GLAS series of contemporary
Russian fiction in English translation, including this anthology of young
authors.

Squaring the Circle will be available to purchase on the night.

Squaring the Circle Reading and Talk will be at the Free Word Centre,
Farringdon Road, London EC1, tel. 020 7324 2570 or email
[log in to unmask] to book your free place.

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