Viktor Yerofeyev and Mikhail Shishkin

Understanding Russia

The Russian scandalous author Viktor Yerofeyev is today considered the most popular writer in Russia and one of the country's leading intellectuals.

Mikhail Shishkin is the only Russian author to have received all three of Russia's most important literary prizes (including the Russian Booker Prize), and his books are consistently bestsellers.

At the festival, the two greats of contemporary Russian literature will talk about Putin and the current political situation in their country.