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Fantastic autumn. “Star Bridge “ festival opened in Kharkiv. Among the participants are writers with millions editions, biggest publishers of Europe, and besides - simple fantasy fans.
A millionaire about a writer – this is not the bank account, but a summary edition of books – a million copies. At “Star Bridge” festival you won’t be able to astonish anybody with a millionth edition. There are three de jure, and five de facto officially best fantasts of Europe, winners of “Eurocon” contest in the hall. One star, best fantast of 2004, Serhiy Lukyanenko, is missing in the hall at the opening ceremony, but best fantast of 2006, Oleh Ladyzhenskyi assures that the author of the “watches” (Serhiy Lukyanenko) did arrive in Kharkiv.
Oleh Ladyzhenskyi, writer, ”I think, that he is tired after the long trip, I have seen him lately, he was getting exhausted and, apparently, he gave up”.
Vasyl Holovachov, the total books edition – 21 million, has already managed to speak on television and meet with readers. Vadym Panov has everything ahead – meeting with readers and autographs session in a book store. Holovachov has written for 40 years already, Panov has been star for two years. But he received offers already to film a cyclus of “Secret City” – Panov’s bestseller.
Vadym Panov, writer, “They said, let’s film it, work went on, these people started to understand what the expenses will be, and the talk about it was over. And it is useless to film cheap. Otherwise, it won’t be filming but just so..”.
This year Panov and Holovachov, Lukyanenko and Dyachenko are on the program. “Star Bridge” is the most prestigious fantasts forum in Europe, assures the head of the biggest book publishing house in Europe Eksmo at the ceremony. Many writers - many readers. They are the full-fledged participants of the festival. Today for them there are discussions and lectures, master-classes from masters how to write a novel, and free displays of fantast films in Ukraine cinema theatre.
// 15.09.2006 12:12
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/culture/2006/2569.shtml
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