Russian Literature Week 2017 presents a series of panels, screenings, and in-person conversations featuring some of Russia’s most acclaimed new authors, famed translators of Russian fiction, and several of the world’s leading Russian literature scholars and literary critics.
Russian Literature Week 2017 will take place May 1-6 in literary venues across New York City including Book Culture, the Strand Bookstore, New York University, Columbia University, the Grolier Club, and the Russian Samovar restaurant – and, as always, online.
MONDAY – MAY 1
7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) The Russian Literary Matrix: Contemporary Russian Writers Reflect on the Classics Participants: Lisa Hayden, Vadim Leventhal, Marina Stepnova, Maya Kucherskaya, Pavel Basinsky, Andrei Gelasimov The Grolier Club 47 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022
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Online film screening: The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov
TUESDAY – MAY 2
4:30 pm The Art of Translation: A Literary Roundtable Participants: Ruth Franklin, Antonina W. Bouis, Tom Kitson, Marian Schwartz, Lisa Hayden Co-sponsored by Columbia University Press Kellogg Center, Columbia University 420 W 118th St, New York, NY 10027
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7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) Russian Writers in Conversation (in Russian) Participants: Pavel Basinsky, Vadim Leventhal, Andrei Gelasimov, Marina Stepnova, Maya Kucherskaya Saint-Petersburg Trade House, New York 261 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
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6:00 pm
Russian library: 3 brand new translations published
RUSSIAN LIBRARY Launch Party
Co-sponsored by Columbia University Press
Participants: Jennifer Crewe, Christine Dunbar, Caryl Emerson, Stephanie Sandler, Vsevolod Bagno, Vladimir Grigoriev, Peter B. Kaufman
Casa Italiana, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
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Online film screening: The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov
WEDNESDAY – MAY 3
7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) Gender & Power in Russian Literature Participants: Maya Kucherskaya, Marina Stepnova The Strand Book Store 828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
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7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) New Works from Russia: A Literary Roundtable Marian Schwartz, Andrei Gelasimov, Lisa Hayden, Vadim Leventhal, Pavel Basinsky, Anna Summers Book Culture 536 W 112th St, New York, NY 10025
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Online film screening: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
THURSDAY – MAY 4
5:00 pm What is Old is New: On Iliazd’s RAPTURE, the Sensational 1930s Novel Tom Kitson, Jenn Wilson In association with PEN AMERICA and the RUSSIAN LIBRARY Jordan Center – NYU 19 University Place, New York, NY 10003
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7:00 PM The Russian Literary Matrix II: Literature & the Russian Revolution at 100 Vadim Levental, Jonathan Brent, and others READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2017 Announcement & Cocktail Reception with Russian Authors Norwood Club 241 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011
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Online film screening: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
FRIDAY – MAY 5
RUSSIAN LIBRARY Editorial Advisory Board Meeting (Invitation-only) Columbia University Press
7:00pm (doors open at 6.30pm) Moscow, Petersburg & Russian Literature Vsevolod Bagno and Solomon Volkov Book Culture 536 W 112th St, New York, NY 10025
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Online film screening: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
SATURDAY – MAY 6
11:00 am The Politics of Russian Literary Translation: Brunch with the Experts
Russian Literature in Translation: Why These Wars? Why Such Violence? Oliver Ready and Caryl Emerson Russian Samovar 256 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019
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Online film screening: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy