Evgeniia Vezhlian – sociologist of literature, literary critic, poet. Candidate of Philological Sciences (defended one of the first dissertations on Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky). Since 1995, she has published poetry and critical articles in the magazines “New World”, “Znamya”, “New Literary Review” and other well-known publications.

Evgeniia worked in the prose department of the Znamya magazine, and directed the program “Modern Russian Literature: Creative Writing” at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Author of scientific articles on the sociology of literary communities and the history of Russian literature of the 1990s – 2020s.

Winner of a special diploma of the poetry prize "Anthologia" based on the results of 2007 for articles and reviews in literary periodicals.

Winner of the small prize of the poetry community for the best poetic book of the year “Moscow Account” (2020) for the book of poems “Angel on Paveletskaya”.

Evgeniia teaches at the School of Literary Practices, an international literary school, together with famous Russian writers. Since 2022, she has been living in Israel, writing a doctoral dissertation on Russian-language literature in Israel, and is on the editorial board of the "New Jerusalem Journal".

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Can tell:

• about modern writers – from Bykov to Rubina, from Pelevin to Glukhovsky (and also about those whom not everyone knows);

• about how books and reading changed and what happened to them in the 21st century;

• about how writers become and what literary success is;

• about censorship, power, politics and modern Russian literature;

• about what post-truth is and how it helps write about the future...

• (and, of course, not only about this).

 

Can teach:

• understand the poems of modern poets and talk about your impressions;

• write about yourself and others, turn life into stories (master class on creative writing).

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