An eclectic program featured all aspects of literature from children’s stories to political memoirs.

A series of nearly forty different Russian literary events brought a huge range of readers, writers, translators, editors and publishers to the UK capital this week.

The line-up at the 42nd London Book Fair in Earls Court saw relatively unknown writers alongside bestselling authors like Ludmila Ulitskaya or celebrated translators like Robert Chandler, talking about topics as diverse as prizes, politics and postmodernism. More.

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