CAUSA ARTIUM works with the Debut Prize to bring a new group of Russia's most interesting young writers to America. They will read from their latest works and speak out on art, politics and life in the world's most vast and volatile nation.

For over a decade, the Debut Prize has sought out young Russian-speaking literary talent the world over. Receiving as many as 70,000 submissions annually, Debut is a landmark in the Russian literary calendar.

Come meet leading Russian writer and Debut Prize Director OLGA SLAVNIKOVA and four of the prize's most exciting discoveries:
IRINA BOGATYREVA, IGOR SAVELYEV, DMITRY BIRYUKOV and ALISA GANIEVA.

OPEN PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS AND LITERARY READINGS. FOR THE GEN'L ENGLISH SPEAKING PUBLIC.
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RUSSIA HAS ALWAYS FASCINATED THE WEST. Russia: sometime friend and frequent foe, Europe and Asia, home of militant atheism and spiritual depth, land of political extremism and literary genius.

Hidden for the West is how crucial this historical moment this is in the art and life of the Russian civilization, one of the world's great cultures. The Soviet and immediate post-Soviet generations had much in common, both obsessed with the heritage of the Soviet epoch. But now they are being displaced by a new generation, one for which the Soviet Union is mere history.

This generation has been raised in a new and different world, a Russia at once more and far less familiar to the West. They have a new set of hopes and fears, with different lives and aspirations. Theirs is a complex new Russia, one it is incumbent upon the West to understand.

Now this new generation of Russian writers comes to NYPL.
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