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The days of the Russian Book were held on February 8 and 9 in Paris with the support of the Russkiy Mir Foundation. The festival took place for the eleventh time, it is considered the largest literary event in Europe.
The book salon was included in the program of the Russian Seasons international cultural project, which takes place in France this year. Russian prominent writers, including Evgeny Vodolazkin, Zakhar Prilepin, Lyudmila Ulitskaya and others, took part in the festival.
Presentations of new books and literary projects, as well as round tables devoted to modern Russian literature and young writers, were held during the event. The program included conferences, the main theme of which was the work of Andrei Bely and Velimir Khlebnikov.
The winners of the Rusophony Prize, which is awarded to the authors of the best translations of literary texts into Russian, were also named during the event. The main prize went to Anne Coldefy-Faucard for the translation from Russian into French of Vladimir Sorokin’s Manaraga.
Coldefy-Faucard translated into French more than seventy works by Russian authors, including a complete collection of letters by Dostoevsky, the books of Platonov and Solzhenitsyn, Dead Souls and other works by Gogol. The translator has Russian roots on her mother’s side; she considers both Russian and French cultures to be equally important.
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