

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: THE DISAPPEARING ACT: Maria Stepanova in conversation
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us hear Maria Stepanova read from and discuss The Disappearing ActAbout this EventWe are thrilled to welcome Maria Stepanova to Blackwell's to discuss The Disappearing Act, published this February by Fitzcarraldo. Maria will be in conversation with James Daviss.Doors: 6.30pm, Starts: 6.45pmTickets are £4 or admission is free when purchasing a Book &amp; Ticket option, or a copy of the book in store ahead of the event.About the book:The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. In this rupture, she feels a flicker of liberation - the possibility of starting over - but memories of childhood, books, films and tarot cards pull her back, the last fragments of a vanishing world. Then she meets a troupe of circus performers who invite her to join them. For a moment, reinvention seems within reach. Oscillating between reality and dream, written in rich, hypnotic prose, The Disappearing Act is a haunting meditation on identity, language and the fragile desire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living writers.About the author: Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. She has received several Russian and international literary awards (including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship). In Memory of Memory won Russia’s Bolshaya Kniga Award in 2018. Sasha Dugdale’s English translation was awarded the Berman Literature Prize and was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. In 2022 she was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2023 for a book of poetry, Mädchen ohne Kleider (Girls Without Clothes). She founded and was editor-in-chief of the online independent crowd-sourced journal Colta.ru, which engaged with the cultural, social and political reality of contemporary Russia until the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine when all dissenting media in Russia were forced to shut down. As a prominent critic of Putin’s regime, she had to leave Russia and is now living in exile.If you cannot make the event but would like a dedicated copy of the book, please email events.manchester@blackwell.co.uk or call us on 0161 274 3331.Our event format is usually a 45 minute discussion between the author and interviewer, followed by a chance for audience members to ask questions. There will be the opportunity to get your book signed/dedicated after the event. Events are a brilliant opportunity to discover new books, meet authors and likeminded readers and learn something new.Support your local bookshop and help us keep the Manchester literary scene vibrant and exciting. You can follow us on Eventbrite and social media (@BlackwellsMCR) to keep up to date on upcoming events.
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- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Entertainment, health-wellness, performances
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 4, max: 12.99, currency: GBP

## Event venue details

- **city**: Manchester
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Blackwell's Bookshop
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- **full address**: Blackwell's Bookshop, 146 Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Blackwell's Bookshop, 146 Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 4 up to 12.99 GBP
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Blackwell's Manchester
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Entertainment, health-wellness, performances
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about THE DISAPPEARING ACT: Maria Stepanova in conversation ?
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