News December 6 Leonid Yuzefovich became the winner of the “Big Book” From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Writer Leonid Yuzefovich took first place in the expert voting for the Big Book Award thanks to his novel Winter Road. The winner will receive three million rubles. Second place and one and a half million rubles went to Evgeniy Vodolazkin with the book “Aviator”.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Philologist Mikhail Zolotonosov filed a lawsuit against the Russian National Library (RNB) after they refused to give him Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” and “The Doctrine of Fascism” by Benito Mussolini. RAPSI reports this. The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg began hearing the case on Tuesday, December 6.

Interview with the screenwriter of the series "War and Peace" Andrew Davis At the invitation of the British Council, Andrew Davis, who adapted to the television of Dickens, Jane Osten, Tekkestea, as well as “Dr. Zhivago and War and Peace”, came to the Non/Fiction Fair. At the request of Gorky, Anna Narinskaya talked with him about the adaptations of the classics.

Economist Tomas Sedlacek on digital communism, fairy tales for adults and the book of Job Ad Marginem publishing house published a Russian translation of Tomas Sedlacek’s book “The Economics of Good and Evil. Finding the Meaning of Economics from Gilgamesh to Wall Street." Sedlacek is a Czech economist, leading specialist at the Czechoslovak Trade Bank. At the beginning of the 2000s, at the age of only 23, he was appointed economic adviser to President Vaclav Havel.