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Book the last tickets to hear Orlando Figes speaking on Monday 3 December.
Orlando Figes, one of the leading historians of
twentieth-century Russia, will be speaking about Just Send Me Word, published earlier this
year. The book is based on 1,246 letters smuggled in and out of the Pechora
Labour Camp between 1946 and 1955, and tells the extraordinary story of Lev
Mishchenko, a prisoner in the camp, and Svetlana Ivanova, his girlfriend in Moscow.
In a talk illustrated with slides and film, Figes describes how he discovered
and came to work with the largest know collection of private correspondence
from the Gulag, and how he met the authors of the letters at the end of their
lives.
Figes will speak at 7pm in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre,
Somerset House, London WC2R 1LA.
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There are still tickets available to hear Bidisha speaking on Iris Murdoch, as the
final installment of the series of events we are running with the National
Portrait Gallery this season.
Writer, critic and broadcaster Bidisha celebrates novelist and
philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose portrait by Tom Phillips conveys her
extraordinary presence and outward serenity. Bidisha argues that Murdoch,
whose work combines morality with satire, and low passion with high yearning,
is one of the most significant novelists since the second world war.
RSL Members and Fellows can purchase tickets for the discounted
price of £4 from the National Portrait Gallery online or by calling 020 7306
0055.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Royal Society of Literature Events
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