RUSSIAN LITERATURE WEEK
New York City
December 7-11, 2015
www.readrussia.org
Agenda
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Eugene Vodolazkin, author, on his novel LAURUS
and his research in Old Russian
NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of
Russia New York University
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 2935 Ninth Ave
New York, NY 10014
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Literary Translation
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8
6:00 – 8:00 PM
The Real Story of Doctor Zhivago
Peter Finn, author and Washington Post National
Security Editor, and Marian Schwartz, translator
Poets House
10 River Terrace New
York, NY 10282
This event made possible through Poets House’s Literary Partners Program
Co-sponsored by Russia Beyond the Headlines & the Russian Library
7:00 – 8:30 PM
InfoCommons Lab
THE DOCUMENTARY NOVEL (in Russian) –
Leonid Yuzefovich, author – interviewed by Vadim
Yarmolinets, author
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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
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9
6:30 – 8:30 PM
RUSSIA’S 2015 YEAR OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE:
A CELEBRATION
Featuring Dmitry Petrov, host, “Polyglot,” Kultura TV
(INVITATION ONLY)
Consulate General
Russian Federation
9 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Co-sponsored by the Renova Group of Companies and the Renova Fort Ross Foundation
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10
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/Central
Library 10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
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
3
Book Culture
536 West 112th Street
New York, NY 10025
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Co-sponsored by the Kennan Institute, Russia Beyond the Headlines, and
the Russian Library
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11
12:00 – 2:00 PM
RUSSIAN LIBRARY –
Editorial Advisory Board Meeting
(INVITATION ONLY)
Columbia University Press
61 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023
Co-sponsored by The Russian Library
6:00 – 8:00 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
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Co-sponsored by the Renova Group of Companies, the Renova Fort Ross
Foundation, and the Russian Library
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