On December 25, at his meeting with a writer Guzel Yakhina in Kazan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov asked her about creative plans and wished success and interesting plots for her new writings.
Guzel Yakhina’s debut novel “Zuleikha opens her eyes” is called the main discovery of the Year of literature. The writer has become a laureate of the National literature award “Big book”, and her novel was awarded “Book of the year” and the Yasnaya Polyana Book Award.