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07/12/2023. Creative meeting on the book “Annual Ring” with Pavel Sysoev
December 7, 2023:
The National Library held a creative meeting of Petrozavodsk schoolchildren with Pavel Sysoev, Karelian writer and poet, member of the Karelian Department of the Union of Russian Writers.
The author’s dialogue about Karelia with teenagers was based on his book “Annual Ring”. The writer put into the book not only his best memories and experiences, but also thoughts about spirituality, the preservation of nature, beauty, culture and identity.
The book “Annual Ring” is a kind of diary of a fisherman-hunter-mushroom picker, but more of a person who loves and knows his native Karelian region, who cannot imagine himself, his family and close friends outside of this landscape. Besides, numerous stories are memories of many years, tied to the seasons; they connect month after month, thus creating an annual ring.
For many schoolchildren, the author’s book has become a “discovery” of their small homeland, perhaps a subject for research and journalistic work. Among the meeting participants, there were schoolchildren who dreamed of becoming journalists and writers. The author got a plethora of questions on topics that concerned them.
As part of the creative meeting, the National Library of the Republic of Karelia presented a book exhibition about the writer’s work from the library’s collections.