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Events Thu Oct 18 2012
Russian Novelist Olga Slavnikova visits the Newberry
The Newberry Library will host winner of the Russian Booker Prize Olga Slavnikova in conversation with Chicago Tribune literary editor Elizabeth Taylor on Monday, October 22 at 5:30pm.
Slavnikova will read from her novel, 2017, which won the Russian Booker Prize in 2006, and her most recent novel, Light Head, shortlisted for this year's prize.
Slavnikova, who is the daughter of a Soviet rocket scientist, characterizes her work as "inverse magical realism," introducing fantasy into the everyday.
Check out this free event at The Newberry Library, located at 60 W. Walton St. For more information, visit debutprize.com
