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World Book Day: Russians named Bulgakov their favorite writer

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World Book Day: Russians named Bulgakov their favorite writer


23.04.2021

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The prose writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov has been named the favorite writer of Russians, according to research conducted by Yandex for World Book Day. The respondents gave the title of the most popular poet to Pushkin. It also turned out that paper books are more popular than electronic ones, the Izvestia newspaper reports.

54% of study participants reported a preference for paper books. Almost a third of the respondents reported their love for reading works in electronic form, and 15% listen to audiobooks.

In addition, Yandex has published the five most popular books among Russians in recent times. Four of them were written by contemporary Russian authors Guzel Yakhina (Echelon to Samarkand), Viktor Pelevin (Invincible Sun), Boris Akunin (Just Masa) and Katya Martynova (Confessions of a Prisoner of the Underground). The only foreign work in the top 5 was the Anxious People by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman.

World Book Day has been celebrated annually on April 23 since 1996. It was proclaimed by UNESCO in 1995.

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