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The Non-fiction intellectual literature fair (non/fictio№24) started on Thursday, December 1, in the Russian capital, TASS reports. The event has been held for almost 25 years and will run until December, 5.
Until 2019, the fair was located in the Central House of Artists on Krymsky Val. Later, the book festival moved to Gostiny Dvor, making it possible to increase the number of participants.
This year, more than 300 publishing houses, book trade enterprises and cultural institutions take part in the fair.
According to the founder of the fair, Vasily Bychkov, the current forum is for the first time held without guests from abroad. But the organizers are scheduled to hold business talks with their Iranian and Chinese counterparts.
The program of the fair includes more than 300 different events, there are nine discussion platforms. Among the speakers are writers Evgeny Vodolazkin, Dmitry Danilov, Sergey Shargunov, Roman Senchin, Vera Bogdanova, Alexandra Marinina, Zakhar Prilepin, Pavel Basinsky, Vera Kamsha, Shamil Idiatullin, poet Dmitry Vodennikov, director of the Dalia Literary Museum and others.
Nearly 20 Moscow publishing houses are presented at the collective stand of Moscow.
As part of the fair, a charity event will be held to collect books for libraries and educational institutions of Donbass, organized by the International Association of Charitable Foundations MAMA.
Russkiy Mir
