![]() Ganieva insists that the main thing is that people continue to read books. That is why I am not at all surprised that Russian classical authors are missing from the relevant section of the ratings.” The most important thing is that people read! “Besides, Pushkin, Chekhov, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky can be read and reread again and again, but there is no need to buy them again and again. Predictably, Grunchenko continues, bestseller lists will be topped by fiction, be it crime or romance, which “does not require intellectual effort on the reader’s part.” Readership of other type of literature will always be considerably smaller and sales lower, she adds. “The choice of a book may depend on the publisher's clever marketing policy rather than on the artistic merits of the text itself,” she adds. Oxana Grunchenko, a research associate with the Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, points out that one should differentiate between tastes and sales figures, not least because the titles that sell best are cheap books that are easily thrown out once they have been read. First, they are already recognizable brands in Russia and, second, they are very prolific,” the expert explains. “Naturally, mass-circulation popular literature and female crime fiction authors are in the lead. The second and third places on the rating belong to another Soviet children’s poet Agnia Barto (47 books) and Hans Christian Andersen (24 books), respectively.Ĭommenting on the rating, author and literary critic for the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily Alisa Ganieva welcomes “the presence of Korney Chukovsky, whose popularity has withstood Soviet-era directives, perestroika, and even new exciting offerings from trendy contemporary authors.” Popular literature always on topĪs for the rest, Ganieva is not surprised by readers’ choices. The most published children’s author, according to the Book Chamber rating, is the Soviet poet Korney Chukovsky, with 76 of his books published in the first half of 2016. Soviet children’s literature: The struggle between ideology and creativity Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. In the children’s literature section of the Rospechat report, the leaders in terms of sales were Nadezhda Zhukova’s Alphabet Book for children learning to read, followed by J.K. According to the Rospechat report, the country’s best-selling books were historical detective stories by Boris Akunin, Tatyana Ustinova and another crime fiction author, Alexandra Marinina. ![]() The 2015 list of bestseller titles was slightly different. The second and third places on the list of Russia’s most published authors belong to two more crime fiction writers: Tatyana Ustinova (41 books) and Tatyana Polyakova (40 books), respectively. In 2016, she remains the most prolific writer, too, with 74 books to her name. In 2015 alone, there were 1,968,000 copies of her books printed. ![]() Each year, Darya Dontsova pens several new novels, all of which fly off the shelves. ![]() Her books are released straight to paperback and are described by literary critics as ‘disposable’ holiday reading material. What is being published and what is being readĪccording to the Russian Book Chamber, the country’s most published author is Darya Dontsova, a writer who has penned an impressive number of crime fiction novels. By all accounts, popular literature is in the lead. At the end of August, the Russian Book Chamber released its rating of the most popular authors, while Rospechat, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, published its annual report on the state of the Russian publishing market.
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