More than 50 publishing houses and bookselling organizations from across Russia, as well as from Turkey and Iran, will present their works at the upcoming North Caucasian International Book Festival "Tarki-Tau - 2024" in Dagestan. The event will begin on Friday, according to Marat Gadzhiev, the festival’s director and editor-in-chief of the journal Dagestan.
"Over 50 publishers and booksellers will showcase their books in Suleiman Stalsky Park. Participants include representatives from regions across Russia, Turkey, and Iran. The festival’s symbol is the Caspian seal, an endemic species that is on the verge of extinction in the Caspian Sea," Gadzhiev said.
The event will take place from October 4 to 6. Programs will be presented in celebration of various literary figures, including Alexander Pushkin, William Shakespeare, Vasily Shukshin, Bulat Okudzhava, Effendi and Natalia Kapieva, Suleiman Stalsky, and Kosta Khetagurov. The festival's plenary session will focus on the development of the book industry, with participation from regional government officials and invited publishers.
To mark the anniversary of USSR People’s Artist Bariyat Muradova, a scene from the play The Mother's Field, based on the story by Chingiz Aitmatov, will be performed at the festival. An eco-educational forum will also be held, and the results of the nationwide children's literary and art contest Caspian - The Living Sea will be announced. The exhibition will be hosted in the courtyard of the guest house "On Pushkin Street."
About the Festival
The Dagestan Book Festival "Tarki-Tau" has been held in Makhachkala since 2012. It is organized by the Dagestan Information and Press Agency and the Dagestan artistic and publicistic journal, in collaboration with the Reading Russia Association of Book Festivals and the National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia Support Program.
The Caspian seal, or nerpa, is the only mammal native to the Caspian Sea. In 2008, it was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. A conservation program for the species was adopted in Dagestan in 2015, and the Caspian seal was added to Russia’s Red Data Book in 2020.
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Based on materials from TASS