Published: 6 September, 2009, 10:53
Edited: 6 September, 2009, 10:53
Russia will be the main headliner and guest of honor at the London Book Fair 2011 and will reveal how far the country has come in the publishing industry since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
According to Russia’s Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, there are currently more than 5,700 publishers in Russia.
The London Book Fair 2011 will serve as a meeting place between Russian and British publishers and writers whose names are familiar in the UK, such as Ludmila Ulitskaya, Dmitry Bykov and Vladimir Makanin.
Russian officials are also expected to introduce a special program of grants to British publishers for translating the new breed of Russian authors into English.