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Perm will have its own book fair. At the end of June 2011, at the end of large-scale “ white nights ”, representatives of the main Russian publishing houses, book industry experts, philosophers, writers, literary critics, poets and publicists will gather in the city-in general, everything on whom the future of the Russian book depends. “The fair promises to become one of the main Russian sites for discussing not only the book sphere, but also the urgent problems of humanitarian knowledge in general,” the organizers say.

Photo: Alexey Gushchin / Sol

The main program of the Perm Book Fair is actually a fair of books from the best domestic publishers, which will be placed in tents on the city esclanade. All books will be sold at special reduced prices. It will also be possible to see not only books, but also their authors - meetings with famous writers are planned within the framework of the Perm Book Fair.

The parallel fair of the fair - discussion tables devoted to the urgent problems of the book industry, as well as issues of preserving and spreading knowledge in the modern world. Not only Perm and Moscow, but also foreign writers, philosophers and publicists will take part in discussions. In particular, the organizers promise to bring writers and public figures from France, Slovenia and Germany to Perm.

The founders of the fair were the Piotrovsky ’s independent bookstore and the Sol Publishing House , which was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Perm Territory and the City Committee on Culture. Curators Fair: Dmitry Vyatkin, Ivan Davydov , Ivan Kolpakov , Denis Korneevsky , Mikhail Maltsev and Yana Tsyrlin.

The program of the Perm Book Fair is still formed - in the final version, it will be made public in mid -May, at a special presentation. “I would not want to disclose the points of the program in advance, but in general, we are trying to create the most colorful and interesting palette of events for Perm as possible,” said Denis Korneevsky, one of the curators of the Perm Book Fair. Nevertheless, he said that Perm may be visited by writer Alexander Ilichevsky and representatives of the French Higher School Ecole Normale. “In Perm, the need for such events has long been felt. We will make every effort to please Permyakov. And we seriously expect that the Perm Book Fair will become a Russian brand, ”Korneevsky promised.