The fair Non/Fictio No. 18 begins

Today, November 30, in the Central House of the Artist (CDH) in Moscow, the International Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/Fictio No. 18 has opened. For the first time, Great Britain became an honorary guest of the fair.

This was told at a press conference by the Director of the Central House of Sciences Vasily Bychkov, reports TASS .

“This year, at the fair, 294 participants from 20 countries of the world, almost the entire Central House of Complex is occupied by a fair. He said. -The program has 400 events in nine zones, they will go non-stop. The main exposition is located on the second and third floors. The top list of adult literature included 170 books, 67 books in children. Top lists make up publishers. ”

Bychkov also said that “30 famous foreign writers ... and 50 Russian writers and cultural and public figures will take part in the work of the fairs.

Laureate of the Buker Prize English writer Julian Barnes will give an open interview about the novel "The noise of time", the fiction biography of Dmitry Shostakovich. Another participant in the fair will be the English writer Jonathan Cow, who will present his new novel “Number 11”. In addition, the Fair program has an open interview with the British screenwriter, the author of the script for the series “War and Peace”, “House Cards”, “Pride and Prejudice” by Andrew Davis.

Among the participants of the fair from other countries, Yanush Vishnevsky (Poland) and Sylvia Nazar (USA), Russia will be represented by Dmitry Bykov, Aleksey Ivanov, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Lyudmila Ulitskaya and other authors, at the fair will be lectured by Laureates of the Enlightener Awards Sergey Kavtaradze and Alexander Panchin.

The International Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/Fictio No. 18 will last until December 4 .