At the Second Book Fair "Russian book in Paris" Guzel Yakhina and Lilia Gazizova presented the Republic of Tatarstan

The Second Book Salon "Russian book in Paris" was held in France earlier this year. Tatarstan was represented by the poet prose writer Lilia Gazizova   and  Guzel  Yakhina , who had long lived in Moscow. They are both members of the Writers' Union of Tatarstan.

About the level of the forum one can judge by the participation in it of such famous Russian writers as Andrei Bitov, Viktor Yerofeyev, Valery Popov, Alexander Snegirev, German Sadulayev and others.

All the events were held in the Salon of City Hall of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, which is located in the heart of the French capital. Lilia  Gazizova presented her collection of poems, "The people of February", published  by the Moscow publishing house "Voymega" in 2013, and Guzel Yakhina – a much talked – of novel "Zuleikha opens her eyes," also published  in Moscow. Creative meetings were accompanied by French interpreters.

This extraordinary event was of great interest from both Russian readers living in France, and from the French. As president of Book Fair  Irina Rekshan noted, "the salon  remains true to its goals - the popularization of modern Russian literature in all the richness of its geographical and stylistic diversity, interest to which  in  France has been steadily increasing."

On the last day the participants of the  Book Salon were  received at the  residence of  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in France, Alexander Orlov, who in his welcoming speech said that literature still continues to unite Russia and France, and thanked all the authors for their participation.