L. Danilkin, A. Varlamov and D.Bykov: talk “The biographer’s responsibility before both hero and reader”

Update: Cancelled 

As part of the  “Read Russia” programme, Russian writers Lev Danilkin, Aleksei Varlamov and Dmitry Bykov will be holding a public discussion. The title of the talk is “The biographer’s degree of freedom, and his responsibility before both hero and reader”.

Dmitry Bykov is a writer, poet, publicist, literary critic, radio and television presenter, journalist, teacher of literature and film critic. Bykov is the author of 65 books of poetry, prose, journalism, biographies and articles of literary criticism. He has written biographies of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maksim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky. He is a three-time winner of the “Big Book” prize (for his biography of Boris Pasternak, and his novels “Ostromov, or the Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and “June”), and he has also won the “National Bestseller” and the Arkady and Boris Strugatsky award. His biographies have been translated into French, Italian, Norwegian and Chinese, while his poems and novellas have been published in English and German.

Aleksei Varlamov is a writer, philologist, and researcher of 20th century Russian literature. Varlamov is a member of the Culture Committee for the President of the Russian Federation, and the Rector of the A.M. Gorky Literary Institute. He is the author of many books of prose, dozens of journalistic and literary articles, and also biographies of Grigory Rasputin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Alexander Green, Vasily Shukshin, Aleksei Tolstoy and Mikhail Prishvin. He has received the “Big Book” for his biography of Aleksei Tolstoy. The author’s works have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Vietnamese and other languages.

Lev Danilkin is a writer and translator. He is the author of seven books, including three biographies: “The Man with an Egg: the life and views of Alexander Prokhanov” was shortlisted for the “Big Book ” and “National Bestseller” prizes, “Yury Gagarin” won the “Alexander Nevsky” prize, and his book “Lenin. The Pantocrator of Solar Dust” received first place in Russia’s largest literary prize, the “Big Book”, and was named “Book of the Year” in the Prose category.  Danilkin has also published “Kludge”, a collection of essays and short stories. He is the editor, compiler and author of the preface to a collection of the selected works of V.I. Lenin (Lenin: Pons Asinorum). He has translated Julian Barnes’ “Letters from London into Russian”. His books have been translated into Italian, Polish, Serbian, Hungarian and French.

In Russian.

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