Meet The Author: New Russian Writing On Women

Come and discuss writing by and about women in Russia today with Guzel Yakhina, the Tatar-Russian prize-winning author of Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes, about Crimean Tatars deported to Siberia under dekulakization, and Alexander Snegirev, whose new novel Vera won the latest Russian Booker Prize. Talk and Q&A, followed by drinks. In Russian, interpreted into English.

Guzel Yakhina was born in Kazan in 1977 and has lived in Moscow since 1999. Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes, which won this year's Big Book Prize, is Yakhina's first novel.

Alexander Snegirev was born in Moscow in 1980. In 2009 he received the Debut Award for Young Authors. His novel Petroleum Venus (2008), about an architect raising a son with Down's syndrome, was nominated for a series of leading literary prizes, and his works have been translated into English, German and Swedish.