The British Council invites you to a lecture by Doug Wallace, the London-based Chief executive of Andrew Nurnberg Associates, Russia and recently Creative director of the UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature 2016.
Using truly international examples from the UK publishing industry and the cultural relations sector, he will speak about the new possibilities of working with authors internationally; new models for international literary festivals; ambitious digital storytelling projects; the challenges and rewards of cultural leadership; and future forms of reading.
The lecture will include a Q&A.
The lecture will be held in English with interpreting into Russian.
Free admission with advance registration
Doug Wallace
Doug Wallace is the CEO of the British literary agency Andrew Nurnberg Associates’ Russian Office. Curator of the British Council’s literature projects, including the year-long program for best young British writers selected by the Granta magazine, and the literature festival in Iraq. Creative director of the 2016 British Council’s UK–Russia Year of Language and Literature. In 2015, Wallace launched the English language publication Hoopoe Fiction — Cairo’s AUC Press Publishing House’s unit representing young Arab authors. Wallace was Marketing Director at the British publishing house SelfMadeHero, and from 2011 to 2016, he was Chairman of the Pop Up Projects CIC — a company that organizes festivals in the field of school education and communities around England.
