{"id":70066,"date":"2025-06-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/?p=70066"},"modified":"2025-05-27T18:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:13:20","slug":"iii-conference-of-finno-ugric-writers-took-place-in-khanty-mansiysk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/iii-conference-of-finno-ugric-writers-took-place-in-khanty-mansiysk\/","title":{"rendered":"III Conference of Finno-Ugric Writers took place in Khanty-Mansiysk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conference took place on 19-23 May and was expected to attract nearly 200 participants: writers, publishers, literary scholars, linguists, librarians, ethnologists. All the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia were represented. Interestingly, while in 2023 two Hungarians participated virtually in the Writers’ Conference, this time two literary figures from the USA – literary scholar Susan Scarberry-Garcia<\/strong>, and translator and writer Claude Clayton Smith<\/strong> – took part.<\/p>

The conference discussed the importance of literature in preserving the traditional values of different peoples, as well as the publication of literature by Finno-Ugric peoples. War was also an important theme.<\/p>

Conference programme<\/h3>

The plenary session was chaired by the President of the Finno-Ugric Writers’ Association, Yeremei Aipin<\/strong>. Doctor of Pedagogy Aleksander Semyonov gave a presentation on “War and Life Values in the Works of Yugra Writers”. Yelena Konchina<\/strong>, poet and editor-in-chief of the newspapers Invenskiy Krai<\/em> and Kama Kychyn<\/em>, talked about the project activities of Komi-Permyak writers. Zinayda Strogalshchikova<\/strong> and Natalia Chikina<\/strong>, researchers at the Institute of Karelian Language, Literature and History, spoke about the development of Karelian literature. Anatoly Ishalin<\/strong>, candidate of pedagogical sciences, spoke on “History and the present in the works of Mari writers”. Yelena Minnigarayeva<\/strong>, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Udmurt Dunne<\/em>, spoke on “Translating fiction into national languages”. Tatyana Shevcova<\/strong>, poet and chairwoman of the Mordovian Writers’ Union, spoke on “Mordovian frontmen-writers with the tag and pen”. Komi poet Galina Butyreva<\/strong>‘s topic was “Free-form verse in Komi literature”.<\/p>

Over the course of the week, there was a wide range of writing workshops, discussions with national language bloggers and literary critics, exchanges, creative evenings, poetry competitions, meetings with readers, concerts and theatre productions. Books were on display, including a three-volume collection of works by Yuri Vella<\/strong>, a writer and indigenous rights campaigner from the Forests of Nenets, published last year.<\/p>

Finno-Ugric Writers’ Association<\/h3>

The Finno-Ugric Writers’ Association was founded in August 2023, just before the Pan-Russian Conference of Finno-Ugric Writers, which took place in Khanty-Mansiysk in September 2023. The founders of the organisation were the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Legislative Assembly’s Vice-Chairman Yeremei Aipin, the Khanty-Mansi poet Svetlana Dinislamova<\/strong> and the poet and IT specialist of the Torum-Maa Museum Sergei Remizov<\/strong>, who is also the organisation’s CEO.<\/p>

J\u00e1nos Pusztay<\/strong>, President of the Finno-Ugric Writers’ Association, has described the 2023 conference in Khanty-Mansiysk as a sign of the separation of Russian Finno-Ugric writers and the end of cooperation with Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian writers, similar to the Pan-Russian Forum of Finno-Ugric Peoples, which the Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples of Russia organised in June 2021. The latter was an alternative to the 8th World Congress of the Finno-Ugric Peoples, which took place a few weeks later in Tartu.<\/p>

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