From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On April 21-22, the Peremen bookstore will hold the Second Festival of New Children's and Teenage Literature in Novosibirsk. According to the organizers, the main theme of this year’s festival is the book as a way of understanding the world.

All the secrets of book gathering in five metaphors Gorky continues a series of materials about professions related to book business. In the last issue, we talked about readers . Now we will talk about collectors. Books became the subject of collecting immediately after it appeared.

Scandal around the Nobel Prize The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in literature, is shaking scandals. The academicians themselves and associated people are accused of harassment and sexual violence. The king himself intervened. The writer Elizaveta Alexandrov-Zorin, who is now in Sweden, wrote for Gorky about the scandal itself, about how #Metoo hit women, and about who will be the next Nobel laureate.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The first reading of the new play “Testimony” by Golden Mask award winner Dmitry Danilov will take place on April 20 in the Great Hall of Theatre.doc. “From the title it may seem that everything is clear, but it only seems so. As always with Danilov, a singer of the outskirts, five-story buildings and everyday life, everything is obvious and incredible. In general, it’s better to see the reading once than to receive spoilers,” say the organizers.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The ceremony to announce the winners of the award took place in the United States on April 16. Laureates were identified in 21 categories. Thus, the best in the Drama category was the writer Martina Majok. The work “The Price of Life” brought her victory. The winner in the fiction category was the comedy novel “Less” by writer Andrew Sean Greer.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The meeting with Boris Erkhov will take place on April 21 as part of the series “How a Word is Born” in the library of the ZIL Cultural Center. Boris Erkhov is a translator from English and Scandinavian languages, literary critic, and bibliographer. His translations included books by many foreign authors: Ray Bradbury, Henry Miller, Ingmar Bergman, Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jansson and others.