The writer will give a lecture in the CLC Lenin on November 12.
(KZN.RU, October 7). On November 12, a public lecture of Vladislav Otroshenko, a writer, member of the PEN-Club and the Union of Russian Writers, will take place in the Kazan CLC Lenin. A meeting with teachers of Russian language and literature, school librarians and high school students interested in humanitarian subjects will be held as part of the “Tolstoy Readings”.
Vladislav Otroshenko is the author of 10 books of prose and essay. He gave speeches and lectures on literature at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, the University of Rabelais in Poitiers, at the Rome University of Tor Vergata, and other famous educational institutions of the world.
The writer's works have been translated into more than ten languages of the world, including English, French, Italian, German, and Chinese.
In 2013, V. Otroshenko became a scholar and resident of the International House of Writers in Saint-Nazaire. He was also awarded the Italian Literary Prize Grinzane Cavour, the National Russian Prizes the “Yasnaya Polyana” named after L. Tolstoy and the I. Belkin’s for the best story in Russian. He is the winner of the Fifth Berlin International Competition “The Best Book of the Year 2014”.
At a lecture in Kazan, the writer will talk about the mysterious circumstances that accompanied the birth of the great works of Russian classics. Vladislav Otroshenko will talk with listeners about the life and work of Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin, and other writers.
Vladislav Otroshenko also plans to hold creative meetings with readers. They will be held on November 7 at 4:00 pm at the address Vishnevsky Street, №10, and on November 9 at 6:00 pm in the Vasily Aksenov House Museum (Karl Marks Street, №55/31), reports the Kazan Department of Culture.
The “Tolstoy Readings” are organized in the art-residence “Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda”. The events are held with the support of I. Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan.
Earlier, Irwin Weil, an American Slavist, came to Kazan for the “Tolstoy Readings”.