DEBUT Prize event in London

[Perova Natasha]

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.

‘We 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’ – 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 
info at freewordonline.com to book your free place.

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