On the fifth day of the festival, the Matryoshka Centre for Creative Industries hosted a meet-the-writer-event with the writer Anna Matveeva, who visited Voronezh for the first time.
In Voronezh, Anna Matveeva presented her new book "Armastan. I love you too", spoke about creativity, "non-random accidents", the fate of the novel genre in literature and gave advice to novice authors.
"Armastan. I love you too" is really a book about love. 11 stories, - said Anna Matveeva. - On the one hand, these are stories about pictures, stories with pictures, stories about fine arts, about artists, photographs - about everything that can be represented as a visual image. On the other hand, these are texts where everyone loves something or someone: a man's love for a woman, a man's love for his work. The book came out just a few weeks ago. Its first presentation was in Kaliningrad, then in Vladivostok via Moscow and Voronezh. The first reviews make it clear that the reader understands not only superficial meanings, but also what I put there in deeper layers."
Anna Matveeva is a prose writer, essayist, and editor. She is the author of more than 20 books, including the novels "Dyatlov Pass, or the Secret of the Nine", "Heaven", "Yes!", "An enviable feeling of Vera Stenina", "Every hundred years", collections of short stories "Wait a bit, I'll die - and then I'll come", "Nine Nineties", "Hidden Rivers", "Katya Goes to Sochi", "Armastan. I love you too", collections of essays "Citizens", "Picture Girls". Anna Matveeva's works have been translated into Italian, Czech, Polish, French, Latvian, English, Bulgarian and Chinese. She’s the finalist and laureate of many literary awards (finalist of the Belkin Prize ("Dyatlov Pass"), winner of the Lo Stellato Prize (Salerno, Italy) for the best story in 2004 (story "Saint Helena Island"), finalist of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize for the novel "Every hundred years").
The exhibitions “Robert Falk. Painting and Graphic arts" and "Alexander Rodchenko" in the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy and the project of Evgeny Kravtsov "Corrosion" in the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists on 8, Kirova street continue welcoming the visitors.