Open Dialogue: “Gaze and Text: How Do We Read Books?”

Participants: Nastya Goncharova (non/fiction), Ilya Odegov (fiction). Moderator: Aliya Kadyrova.

Ilya Odegov is a writer, literary translator, educator, and founder of the Litpraktikum online school. He wrote four prose books and over 100 publications in literary journals and became a laureate of the Russian Prize International Literary Contest.

Nastya Goncharova is a partner at the Bukla bookshop and the translator of James Hurman’s The Case for Creativity into Russian.

Aliya Kadyrova is a journalist, creator of a Creative Writing course, author of the Reading is Trendy blog, and an activist.