russian writers like tolstoy and thus the esky are hugely popular in the world but a like the great classics one. russian of the ship is almost unknown abroad one of the arguments is that the words modern writers rarely get translated what's wrong with promotion of russian literature abroad and we'll attempt to get that we're asking the deputy director of the federal russian agency for print and mass media like he never believe what. publishing experts say to translation and russia leaves much to be designed the most celebrated literature was translated into foreign languages many years ago and now the industry has almost halted recently the government has done some steps to remedy the problem these include the foundation of an institute to promote and harmonize the work of the translators and a special prize called the draw shall be established to recognize excellence the art stage. and welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being here. first of all i want to ask you a news related question we've been hearing. in the news that your agency is becoming the principal state body

it might be down to tolstoy does the yes and check up the russian joint the status of the guest of war not at the fortieth london book fair but the hundred russian writers and seventy publishers who attended were intent on promoting the merits of a much more contemporary brand of russian literature the fair featured authors well known in their homeland as well as up and coming contributors showcasing a cross-section of more than literature abroad is just one way for russia to promote its writers another one is encouraging translators to do with books by new authors to help the process along the russian federal agency for going to mass media this founded the institute of translation this will hand out grants for to slay sions from russian into other languages the new writers expect priority to be given to english in the belief this is the best way to promote more than russian literature globally books published in britain or the us and get in reviews in english language magazines they scouts grab their attention up their reading public i didn't knew names own side till story just a epst

whether you are in new york or when terrorists use your circling yourself in meeting the books by tolstoy does the u.s. concerto. sometimes you're also getting some brilliant or soldier needs in the past or not. which is not the case with the new congress midrash or really you know a dozen of russian writers who are. but first it's probably russian writers have been translated some foreign languages are of. there are several you know. the problems that. we're facing at the moment are one of that is the. lack of infrastructure i mean by either sort of fiction what i think about the action or threat of a things are we are talking about fiction we're talking about poetry where documents. we're talking about russian currently preprocess so power first is the lack of written infrastructure. and by the lack of infrastructure i mean that there is no especial lightly three gensis nearly three all literary agents working with the russian literature secondly it's always risky to publish new names so what we're trying to do just to set we've just said institution which will be supporting. both we ar

novel of the twentieth century well what's wrong with good old dr zhivago what's wrong with with leo tolstoy who wrote in the twentieth century as well as the nineteenth century is it fair creating a new stereotype to promote something new and said well i mean instead of the good of things you know what. i would put it the other way if if you will read if any piece of work. even the reader show. stimulating people to to read them. so this kind of. the ratings and the authors then. people read on the do not treat because the problem promotion of reading is. evident both for the united kingdom and russia as well. we're trying to do. well to take a lot of you know experience from from non-governmental organization of the united kingdom to promoting specifically. school children. this is a big problem for european civilization the new generation is not very eager to include you know somebody told me that if one of the main. main standards for for the state of economy of the country is is the rate of the sales of new cars one of the main standards for. two to value the the state of literature in

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