Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky won the lead from Stephen King in the ranking of the most published fiction writers in Russia. It has been reported red blood cell With reference to the data of the Russian Book Room.
The publication draws attention to the fact that the American writer, who has been in the first place since 2019, has dropped to the sixth place. And if in January-June 2022 the circulation of King’s books exceeded 1 million copies, now it is only 240.9 thousand. At the same time, the circulation of the books of the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky amounted to 463.3 thousand copies. Russian writer Anna Jane (“Your Heart Will Break”) was also included in the Top 3 with 294 thousand.
Citing Book Room statistics, RBC writes that author Joan Rowling is not included in its ranking of the 20 best published authors of children’s literature. Now the top three are held by Korney Chukovsky, Alexander Pushkin and Elena Ul’eva.
RBC attributes the loss of popularity of foreign writers to their departure from the Russian market. Horror writer Stephen King became one of the first foreign writers not to renew his contract with Russian publishers. Books from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series have disappeared from popular online libraries.
Eksmo-AST also emphasized to the publication that young people under the age of 25 play a major role in the popularity of Russian classics books.
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