Famous writer Guzel Yakhina, author of the award-winning novel "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes," is coming to Irkutsk. The meeting will take place on June 21 at the drama theater during the Literary Evenings.
Irkutsk will host the famous writer Guzel Yakhina, author of the novel "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes." This work won the "Big Book" and "Yasnaya Polyana" awards in 2015, received the "Book of the Year" in the "Prose of the Year" category, and was shortlisted for the "NOS" and "Russian Booker" awards.The meeting with the writer will take place on June 21 at the Irkutsk Drama Theater. During this time, from June 20 to 23, the Literary Evenings "This Summer in Irkutsk - 2016" will be held.
In addition to Guzel, the main researcher of the Department of General History and member of the Academic Council of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Gavrilov, will also talk with the residents of Irkutsk. He will discuss how antiquity lives in modernity and how the cultural heritage of Irkutsk relates to it. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions to the publisher Elena Shubina and the honored artist of Russia Vitaly Sidorchenko.