Bookshop Situation Series: Release of Det icke-ryska Ryssland

Welcome to the book release for The non-Russian Russia. The evening will include talks, readings and presentation of the book by participating authors and editors.

The non-Russian Russia is an anthology with texts written by representatives of a handful of Russia’s indigenous people. They are written from within the cultural decolonization processes that have long been underway in the country. For a long time, we’ve gone to the Russians to learn about the Tatars, the Udmurts – or the Ukrainians. It is about time for us to break that habit and listen to them directly.

Participants
Dinara Rasuleva is a poet, born 1987 in Qazan, Tatarstan, currently based in Berlin. Together with the Berlin library Totschka, Rasuleva has initiated the TEL:L laboratories, working with writings in forgotten or stolen languages.
Svetlana Edygarova is a linguist and researcher in Finno-Ugric languages ​​at the University of Helsinki. Edygarova’s native language is Udmurt.
Mikael Nydahl, translator and publisher, born 1973, working from Skåne, Sweden.
More participants will be added.

About The non-Russian Russia: the Decolonial Literatures:
The anthology is edited by Mikael Nydahl, Dinara Rasuleva and Galina Rymbu.
The anthology includes texts by Ksenia Bolshakova, Egana Jabbarova, Dordzhi Dzhaldzhireev, Tatiyaas Filippova, Svetlana Edygarova, Milyausha Gafu, Neseine, Dinara Rasuleva, Galina Rymbu, Viktoria Şăltăr, Irina Smaga, and Evelina Valieva.
Introduction and afterword by Stefan Ingvarsson and Mikael Nydahl.
Contributing translators are Cai Alfredson, Nils Håkanson, Anna Hörnell and Mikael Nydahl.
Many of the texts have been published in the spring and autumn in a special issue of PEN Sweden’s international online magazine PEN/Opp. The book is published in collaboration between Ariel förlag and PEN Sweden.

The book will be available for sale during the evening.
This event is organized by Svenska Pen in collaboration with Index.

The Bookshop Situation Series at Index is based on events to present books, magazines, records and other artistic formats. The bookshop situation is a way to test content, to share it, to distribute it, offering situations to be part of a community of experimental producers and users.