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Literary Social in Memory of M.A.Sholokhov in the Soka University (Japan)

On June 14, the Soka University (Japan, Tokyo) held a literary social “Sholokhov: Russian Writer of the World Significance”. The social was organized under the support of the Russian Centre of the Soka University and its leader Professor Stella Sivakova. The guests were welcomed by Professor Sagae.

S.A.Vasilyev, Doctor of Philological Sciences, professor of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, and senior researcher of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov, made his lecture about the work of the famous prosaic. A special attention was paid to the writer’s homeland and the work of the National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, where the creative heritage of the Russian literature classic is carefully preserved. The Museum has wide international connections and can work with foreign visitors. Professor Egouti told about the meeting of M.A.Sholokhov and Daisaku Ikeda, the well-known philosopher and public figure of Japan, the founder of the Soka University, which took place in 1974, in the Moscow flat of the writer. Doctoral student Kengo Minami moderated the event and made a simultaneous interpretation of the lecture in the Japanese language.

The social was joined by the students of the Soka and Keiyo universities. Many of them learn the Russian language. They could read books by Sholokhov in Japanese, in particular, the works published in 1965, in the 8-volume Collected Works of the writer, which, besides other editions of his works, can be found in the Soka University library.

The climax of the social was donation of books about the writer: “Sholokhov Encyclopedia”, “Chronicles of the Life and Work of M.A.Sholokhov”, the journal “Mir Sholokhova” and other editions to the Russian Centre of the Soka University from the National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve.

The literary social was followed by an informal talk of its members in the Russian Centre.

Lora Akolzina