7th International Book Fair
dal 29/11/2005 al 3/12/2005
Segnalato da
29/11/2005
7th International Book Fair
Central House of Artists, Moscow
High Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction. The Fair sticks to its principle of selectiveness: intelligent books and elite publishers only. Non/Fiction helps readers 'find their way' in the crowded book market: the Fair presents 200 best publishers and booksellers from 13 countries. seminars, round tables, meetings with writers, and presentations.
High Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction
It is the seventh time now that the fair has been brining enjoyment for
all its visitors from its literature ranging from fiction to essays. As
usual, the Fair sticks to its principle of selectiveness: intelligent
books and elite publishers only. NON/FICTION helps readers "find their
way" in the crowded book market: the Fair presents 200 best publishers and
booksellers from 13 countries.
This is a venue where serious foreign publishers arrive to select books
interesting for translation and presentation to foreign readers, and sell
rights for their novelties.
This is a place where small-time publishers who publish only a dozen of
books a year get together at collective stands in order to discuss issues
of serious literature and decide on its development. Many of them publish
magazines and newspapers, start clubs and stores, creating a high quality
cultural millieu.
The Fair is a meeting place for professionals: authors, publishers,
booksellers, literary critics, agents, and translators. This is a where
publishers can find authors and vice versa. The Fair also gives an
opportunity for its rank-and-file visitors (whose number exceeded 30
thousand last year) to buy new books at prices lower than those offered by
regular booksellers or to find some rarities that were published just a
few years ago but have long since become unavailable. One of the novelties
of the seventh Non/Fiction Fair includes a book of poems of modern French
writer Michel Houellebecq.
The Fair program is truly diverse: seminars, round tables, meetings with
writers, and presentations. Every year, a Guest of Honor of the Fair is
announced here. The Guest of Honor for this year is Poland. The first day
of the winter - December 1 - was declared to be the Day of Poland. The
Fair visitors will have an opportunity to participate in seminars, attend
lectures of modern Polish writers, and select books at the Polish
collective stand.
The topic of the "Book and :" seminar organized under the Fair deals with
the existence of books in other cultural combinations: television, design,
theater, and music. Participants of the seminar will try and analyze the
following trends: what they sell with books and around books; CDs related
to books or other artifacts of the common cultural context; books as part
of specific informational and ideological projects; books and new
electronic cultural media; books and the cinema.
On December 3, participants of the round table organized in association
with the NLO Publishers and the Frankfurt Book Fair will share their
experience in how they select books for translation and publishing. The
Fair program also includes such events as the presentation of a new
edition of a book by French architect Ledoux (17th century), an opening of
the First Moscow Exhibition Book of the Artist, a presentation of new
Hungarian books, and a meeting with French writer and playwright
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. (Organizer: Azbuka Publishers).
NON/FICTION is a place where literary awards are granted to writers
(Andrey Belyi literary award), translators from the French language
(Maurice Wachsmacher and Leroi-Beaulier prizes). The Man of the Book
literary award is conferred on publishers and booksellers.
The Fair is held under the auspices of the Federal Agency for Press and
Mass Communications and the Culture Committee under the Moscow
Administration.
Fair Sections:
humanitarian and educational literature; fiction; books on arts, design, and architecture "small-time" publishers; business literature; Libraries of Russia
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Special program:
POLISH AND RUSSIAN POSTER LITERATURE (Hall 5, Floor 2)
Exhibition prepared by the Book Institute within the framework of the Fair
Guest exposition.
INTERROS PUBLISHING PROGRAM (Floor1)
The Interros Publishing Program is a humanitarian project, which purpose
is to participate, through publishing, in modern cultural processes, and
to make public the cultural heritage items that are kept in museum vaults
and archive collections and are accessible only to a restricted number of
specialists. In 1997, the first monograph of the Russian Cultural
Heritage: Items from Collections of the Russian State Library series was
published. Due to the joint efforts of Interros and one of the largest
archives in the world, five books in the Russian and English languages
became available for the public to enjoy. Within the framework of the
Interros Publishing Program, the book is presented as the central element
of the cultural environment, becoming the focus of exhibition, scientific,
and educational activity. Thus, each new book (or a book series) serves as
a starting point for further development of the declared subject matter,
with the Interros Publishing Program to serve as an institution for
initiation and
coordination of cultural processes.
DOLLS (Hall 12, Floor 2)
The Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye Publishers, under the Everyday Culture
Project, presents an exhibition of illustrations by Mariya Zaikina for
Hollow Woman: Barbie World Inside and Outside by Linor Goralik.
BEZHIN LUG (Hall 14 b, Floor 2)
This exhibition is timed for the issue of Photographer Aleksey Mazurin.
Materials for the History of Russian Photography and Bezhin Lug albums.
APPOLINARIUS (Hall 8, Floor 2)
An exhibition project in the "livre d'artiste" format dedicated to the
125th birthday of Guillaume Apollinaire. Organizers: ALCOOL Publishers,
Dirigeable studio, and Treugolnoye Koleso (Triangular Wheel) almanac.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALEXANDER LINDENBERG AND KRISTINA SEGERCRANTZ FOR
CHILDREN'S BOOK PESSI AND ILLUSIA BY YRJO KOKKO (Hall 8, Floor 2)
Organizers: FILI (Finnish Literary and Information Center) and the Finnish
Embassy in Russia.
Parallel to the 7th International Book Fair of High Quality Fiction and
Non-Fiction, Russia's first ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR - a new project of the
organizers of the Russian Antique Salons - takes place from November 30 to
December 4, 2005. The purpose of the new project is to attract the
attention of general public to collecting old books and promote the
revival of this collecting culture and the formation of the antiquarian
book market in Russia, which has a great potential.
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Press conference: November 30: 12 noon, in Seminar Zone, Floor 2, Central House of Artists
Opening date: November 30: 2.00 pm, Floor 1, Central House of Artists
Fair dates: November 30: from 2.00 pm to 7.00 pm;
December 1-4: 11.00 am to 7.00 pm
Central House of Artists Moscow
Krymskiy val 10 - Moscow
Opening hours:
daily 11:00-20:00, except Mon