Marina Koroleva: “Writers, back in line? (following Akunin and Peskov)”

“I’m not a writer, God forbid. I just write and publish books, and I stay away from the word “writer.” Because now, on the one hand, anyone who has published at least a five-page brochure can call themselves a writer. On the other hand, since Soviet times In our times, a writer is someone who “works as a writer.” He is a member of the Writers’ Union, the Literary Fund, goes to writers’ boarding houses, but for all this, of course, he must come to writers’ congresses and receive a beating from his superiors... But what about it? , such work.

In short, I’m not a writer, I haven’t been and never will be, so it’s easy for me to say. And it’s easy to read the correspondence discussion between B. Akunin and the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov.”