21st century prose: new protagonists, plots, and genres

The roundtable will provide a review of the trends in 2020s prose in terms of themes and style. Loss, trauma, and defeat becoming the driver for an entire literary movement. Causes for the unexpected rise of autofiction. Isn’t it time to re-examine our attitude toward genre fiction? Will there be a new “novel of a generation”?

Participants:

Moderator

• Pavel Basinsky, writer, critic, literary historian (Russia)

Speakers

• Roman Senchin, prose writer (Russia)
• Dmitry Danilov, prose writer, playwright, poet (Russia)
• Liu Wenfei, writer, translator, Professor at Capital Normal University (China)
• Uday Prakash, Hindi poet, translator (India)
• Neva Altaj, writer (Serbia)