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Today's Russian Literary Greats
The Russian Literary Festival in London gave 大象传媒 Russian's arts and culture correspondent, Alexander Kan, a chance to talk to some of the big names among contemporary writers. He shares his favourites, including Boris Akunin, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Victor Pelevin and Dmitry Glukhovsky, and treats us to a reading from Vladimir Sorokin's The Day of the Oprichnik.
(Photo: Russian bear sitting at a table)
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