Ludmilla Ulitskaya is a Guest of Honour of the 16th Budapest Book Festival and a laureate of the Budapest Grand Prize
During the ceremony of opening of the International Book Festival Budapest-2009 Ludmila Ulitskaya, Festival's Guest Of Honor this Year, will be presented with the Budapest Grand Prize by the Lord Mayor of Budapest, Dr Gábor Demszky.
The list of previous-years winners of this prestigious award include:
Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet (1995)
Ephraim Kishon (Kishont Ferenc), Israeli writer of Hungarian origin (1996)
Kertész Imre, Nobel-Prize winner, Hungarian writer (1997)
Salman Rushdie, Indian-English writer (1998)
Viktor Jerofejev, Russian author (1999)
Slawomir Mrozek, Polish witer (2000)
Robert Merle, French writer (2001)
Lawrence Norfolk, English writer (2002)
Mario Vargas Llosa, Perui writer (2003)
Günter Grass, Nobel-Prize winner German writer (2004)
Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer (2005)
Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer (2006)
Umberto Eco, Italian writer (2007)
Bret Easton Ellis, American writer (2008)
Detailed program of the festival please see on its webpage: www.bookfestival.hu/
Featured titles
SECRET HISTORY OF CREATIONS, collected essays by Vladislav Otroshenko (2005)
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Book of literary essays in which Otroshenko explores mysteries and inexplicable circumstances which surrounded the birth of the greatest masterpieces of world literature and philosophy, and lives of their creators: writers, poets and philosophers of different époques (Ovid, Catullus, Fyodor Tyutchev, Alexander Pushkin, Vladislav Khodasevich, Nikolay Gogol, Andrei Platonov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, and others.
Read moreNot Russian, a novel by Mikhail Shevelev
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One always pays over and above for his cowardice, treachery, or indifference, and the bill always comes at wrong time, and in most unexpected form. And you always pay yourself, no group discounts applied.
Protagonist of this psychological thriller finds himself being responsible for lives and safety of dozens of others. To save them, he should understand was he has done wrong in the past.
Dynamic, concentrated narrative of Mikhail Shevelev’s NOT RUSSIAN is written in the genre of retrospective journalist investigation, where real facts of recent Russian history are masterfully merged with fiction.
Pavel, the main hero and narrator of Shevelev’s novel, a reporter by profession, in early 1990ies has delivered Vadim, a young soldier, back to Russia from Chechen...
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