How animals enhance the library experience Poetess and organizer of the contemporary poetry festival MyFest Dana Kurskaya established the MyPrize award, intended for Russian-speaking poets aged 35 to 60, and opened the call for applications. She wrote about the provisions of the award on her Facebook page. The prize will be awarded annually in one category: for a selection of five poems. The first place winners will receive ten thousand rubles.

How animals enhance the library experience All of their works, including unpublished ones, have reappeared on the Russian Science Fiction website, dedicated to the work of Russian science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. “By the decision of Maria Arkadyevna and Andrei Borisovich Strugatsky, the ABS texts were returned to free access on the official website of the Strugatsky brothers,” says the main page of the site.

How animals enhance the library experience On Monday, March 20, the founder and editor-in-chief of The New York Review of Books, Robert Benjamin Silvers, died in New York, The New York Times reports . He was 87 years old.

Ann Tyler, Graham Swift and the British Thriller, who gathered a dozen awards for 2016 Twice a month, Gorky publishes a review of the new products of modern foreign prose. In the fresh issue - three novels for the second half of March: the translation of the old book by Ann Tyler, the new Graham Swift with a novel about the benefits of imagination and the debut novel Andrew Michael Harvey in the genre of a very terrible fairy tale for adults. Anne Tyler. Random tourist. M.: Phantom Press, 2017.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" British historian and literary critic Donald Rayfield will give a lecture on Georgian literature at the Moscow House of Books on Novy Arbat. The meeting with the writer will take place on Thursday, March 23. The lecture will be timed to coincide with the release of his new book “Georgia. Crossroads of Empires.

News of the book market and electronic book publishing from Vladimir Kharitonov A lot of interesting and important events that are directly related to book, occurs not only in publishers and bookstores, but in computers and courtrooms, on bank accounts and Internet servers, in the applications and lines of the code.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" A marriage registry with two forged entries left by the future writer Jane Austen as a child was found in the archives of the English county of Hampshire. The BBC reports this. The register of Stevenson Township, where Austin lived, covers the period from 1755 to 1812.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Moscow Altmans Gallery (Novinsky Boulevard, 31) will host an exhibition by Salvador Dali dedicated to Lewis Carroll's fairy tale "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Afisha Daily was informed about this by the gallery’s press service. The exhibition, dedicated to the 185th anniversary of Carroll's birth, will be on view from March 24 to April 23.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Nekrasov Central Universal Scientific Library hosted the “Difference” poetry award ceremony dedicated to World Poetry Day. The main prize went to Lida Yusupova for her collection “Dead Dad” (Tver: Kolonna Publications; Mitin magazine, 2016). “The award jury particularly praised the Belize-based poet's innovative and uncompromising language on violence in her collection,” the press release said.