2026 Fair Program

The Berlin-based artist, five-time winner of the Bologna Fair Illustration Competition (2021–2026), Non/Fiction nominee in the Book Artist category, and finalist of the Korean NAMI Concours […]

Let's talk about the differences in approaches to working with dramaturgy in European and Russian theatre, about strategies for creating texts, trends and

Dmitry Strotsev, Dmitry Vedenyapin, Stanislav Lvovsky (online), Yegana Dzhabbarova, Ksenia Buksha, Stanislav Belsky, Valery Ledenyov, Mikhail Bordunovsky (online), Natalia Klyucharyova, Roman Osminkin, Daria Serenko, Yuliy Gugolev (online), Denis Larionov, Lisa Heresh, Evgeniya Lavut

Mikhail Nemtsev, Inna Krasnoper, German Lukomnikov (online), Maxim Goryunov, Dinara Rasuleva, Boris Filanovsky, Arseniy Rovinsky,
Mikhail Aizenberg (online), Ilya Danishevsky, Anna Glazova,
Nikita Sungatov, Evgeny Nikitin,
Linor Goralik, Yulia Podlubnova (online), Dmitry Kuzmin

Lisa Heresh's debut poetry collection is a continuum of spaces and times, the plots of which do not speak to the reader directly, but pass through

The Walking Disaster Club is the second novel by writer Katherine Stockett. Stockett's first novel, The Help (2009), sold over 10 million copies and became

The New Jerusalem Journal is a journal of Israeli literature in Russian. The only requirement, besides the quality of the text itself, is its "Jerusalemness," understood as

A new translation of one of Franz Kafka's famous late stories, "The Search for a Dog," has just been released by Nosorog Publishing House. The translator will present

How do contemporary texts become theater? Ten authors—prose writers and playwrights—will present their works to theater professionals and audiences:

Participants: Anastasia Patlai, Denis Kargaev, Evgenia Shermeneva, Marina Davydova, Maria Agni, Nikita Betechtin, Polina Borodina, Svetlana Dolya, Egana Dzhabbarova, Sergey Davydov,

Bibliorossika is a joint project between the St. Petersburg-based Bibliorossika Publishing House and the Boston-based Academic Studies Press. Presented by the publishing house's founder, Igor Nemirovsky. "We publish

Alexey Voinov, Dmitry Vedenyapin, and Daria Apakhonchich. Moderator: Polina de Moni, founder of the publishing house.

Alexey Voinov. Presentation of the book "Winter Without Snow" – about the beginning of the war in Ukraine and leaving Russia: a travelogue of time

Ten years ago, this story first appeared online—and soon became a phenomenon. It was read, loved, banned, but Leto

In the introduction to “The Fenichev Phenomenon,” Leonid Desyatnikov writes: “It seems to me that Mikhail Fenichev’s poetry is one of the most tart and unpredictable

Refugees, war, burnout—the topics that are difficult to talk about even with adults in Natalia Krupenina’s teen novel “I Know How to Fall.” “I

Poet and translator Alyosha Prokopyev will present his new poetry collection, "Fragments of the Future," the first book from the publishing cooperative. Sergey will join online.

Presentation of two books united by a common theme: the historical investigation by Alexander Makeev, “A Match for the Position: Faces of the Great Terror in the Volga German Republic” and

My name is Yuri Troitsky. I am a lawyer by profession, specializing in corporate tax law. I was born in Kursk and moved to Kursk after graduating from university.

"The Mirror" is a novel of reflections. Its twenty-four preludes and twenty-four postludes form a cycle of returns, in which each part responds

A major discussion with the participation of the following projects: ROAR Articulation Berlin. Banks Air Dactyl Colon Mirror Metajournal Ill Health New Jerusalem Journal Words Outside

The definition of a “poetry evening” doesn’t fit Delfinov’s performances – it’s more like a fiercely tender concert with a band of invisible people on the second

This is the most complete edition of Georg Trakl in Russian, including for the first time the surviving fragments of his youthful dramas, drafts and editions; it is offered,

A writer perceives the world differently than other people. A writer wakes up and sees emptiness all around, and this emptiness must be filled – with words. The writer sits down

This two-volume book is about modern Germany, seen not through the eyes of a tourist, but by someone who lives there. The first book helps you understand

This book is about the violence that church authorities can cover up with the rhetoric of "paternal care." Andrei Kuraev shows that in the history of Orthodoxy

Presentation of the novel "The New Barbarism" (ISIA Media Verlag, Russian edition) and its German edition "Die neue Barbarei" (Matthes & Seitz, Berlin),

Poetic translation, one way or another, lies at the foundation of the poetic culture of any nation, although this is not always remembered and not

In his past life, the hero was a journalist and wrote about bicycles for a Moscow newspaper. In his new life, he's an FSB agent, monitoring

Alan Charoit is a writer, singer-songwriter, and theater director who has been collecting folklore for many years. He brings back rare legends from his travels, which he then

The author is Luciano Mecacci, an Italian historian and psychologist, professor at the University of Florence, and a leading expert on the history of Soviet psychology. In the 1970s

The Dar Literary Prize will present the finalist books shortlisted for the second season. Literary critics will discuss their works with the authors and respond

Participants: Yuri Veksler, Natalya Gromova, Tamara Kandala, Elena Model, Vladimir Sotnikov, Anna Berseneva, Valery Bochkov, Alexey Makushinsky. What happens to

This is a book about a man who knew how to tell the truth—even when it was dangerous. Evgeny Schwartz is the author of "The Dragon" and

Literary historian and Cold War scholar Ivan Tolstoy began publishing the historical and cultural almanac Connaisseur in 2018, when mass emigration

Popular historical writers Andrei Shary and Yaroslav Shimov, winners of the 2025 Enlightenment Prize for their groundbreaking research on Central Europe and

In 2026, ISIA Media Verlag (Leipzig) began publishing the book series "Free Debut." The publication is carried out in partnership with

The author talks about the book “People and Lands” using the example of its most “Berlin” chapter: “Prussian reforms of 1807-1814, ideal reforms “from above”. How humanity

Lyudmila Novikova (Sweden) and the Facebook group "I Don't Like the USSR." Are we returning to the USSR? What from the USSR influences us now? Introduction: Anna Sandermoen, publisher 

Personal prose seems like a confession, but it almost never is. It is a territory where loved ones can recognize themselves in the text… Where

In 2027, Raiduga turns 100 years old. For a long time, the magazine introduced readers to the best Ukrainian writers writing in Russian. After

The magazine "Air", published in Moscow since 2006, and in 2024 moved to Latvia, is one of two, along with

"Dawn Will Definitely Come" is a collection of letters sent to those currently being persecuted in Russia for political reasons. The book shows how

New authors are knocking loudly on the back door of Russian literature: open up! They have said goodbye to the past and to their homeland (some),

FROM THE AUTHOR: I write a lot, but briefly. It just so happened: in my tender youth, as a diligent reader, I was captivated by the charm of brevity.

Ilya Danishevsky is a poet and writer who works at the intersection of poetry and prose and uses language as a tool to explore the extremes

Mikhail Nemtsev's collection of short essays, "Clarity and Joy," takes us back to the very beginning of philosophy, where Socrates once began:

The meeting will be moderated by Ivan Filippov, writer, author of the Telegram channel "All Quiet on the Western Front," and a researcher of Russian propaganda. Excerpts from the book will be read by

The book “In the City in November” is a selection of poems by Tatyana Volskaya over 10 years: from 2015 to 2025. The book was compiled not

Irina Ivanchenko’s poetry is of the highest class, woven from the same fabrics – one would like to say, “from which cereals are sewn” – but

"There are events that don't become memories, that don't retreat into the archives of memory. They lie on the 'desktop' of consciousness - just like you

Materials for the biography of Evgenia Ginzburg (unpublished letters and documents) - presented by Elena Zhemkova, executive director of Zukunft Memorial eV Holocaust on

Theater and film actor Maxim Sukhanov and historian Irina Shcherbakova will present the upcoming audio version of the book "Papa's Letters." The printed edition

There's a lot going on in Berlin, and the Russian-language literary scene is no exception. There are book clubs, writers' workshops, and independent initiatives.

The project is a series of AI photographs and short films created in collaboration with Natasha Treya, Boris Grebenshchikov and Ivan Vyrypaev. “This is

How do you find dating in exile? Has it gotten better? More difficult? More understandable? More confusing? Are you looking for dates from your home country? Or, on the contrary, do you tend to avoid your compatriots?