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ALL-RUSSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL
(regardless of the place of residence of the authors and the subject of their works)
ANDREY BELY AWARD
Oldest independent literary prize modern Russia- first awarded in 1978 by the editors of the Leningrad samizdat almanac “The Hours”. Since that time, in accordance with changing eras, it has gone through several transformations, but has retained unchanged the spirit of nonconformism and focus on the new and unusual. And also the corresponding unique “ prize fund": a bottle of vodka, one apple and one ruble. Despite this, the award enjoys constant respect in the professional community.
The NOS Prize was established in 2009 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. A special feature of the prize is the public discussion between the “prize jury” and the “prize experts” (both are appointed by the board of trustees headed by I. D. Prokhorova). The name of the award is proposed to be deciphered as “New Sociality” and “New Literature”. The boundaries of this novelty become the subject of two lively discussions- in Krasnoyarsk, during the course (in this case a short list is determined), and in Moscow (in this case the winner is determined). The monetary component of the award is 700,000 rubles.
In 2015, the total size of the bonus fund increased significantly and amounted to 7,000,000 rubles, the winner in the category “ Modern classics”, received 1,500,000 rubles, the winner in the “XXI Century” nomination - 2,000,000 rubles, the winner in the “Childhood” nomination. Adolescence. Youth" Valery Bylinsky - 500,000 rubles, and in the nomination "Foreign Literature" Ruth Ozeki received 1,000,000 rubles, and the translator of her novel - 200,000 rubles.
applications for participation were accepted until April 10.
Award website: yppremia.ru
DELVIG AWARD
Prize “For Fidelity to the Word and the Fatherland” named after the first editor of the Literary Newspaper, Anton Delvig. Established by Literaturnaya Gazeta as an annual Russian national award in 2012.
Creative organizations and/or publishing houses can nominate works.
Prize fund - 7,000,000 rubles: three first prizes of 1,000,000 rubles each (with the presentation of the “Delvig Gold Medal”), six second prizes of 500,000 rubles each (with the presentation of the “Delvig Silver Medal”), four “Debut” prizes 250,000 rubles each (with the presentation of diplomas to the laureates). Only books published in the current year are accepted for the competition. For example, in the 2016 season, books published from January 2014 to October 2015 were considered. Applications were accepted from October 15, 2015 until January 31 2015. This season, it was decided not to divide the laureates into “gold”, “silver” and “bronze”. All received the Golden Delvig award.
Award website: http://lgz.ru/prize
DMITRY GORCHEV LITERARY PRIZE
In St. Petersburg in memory of the most popular prose writer on the Runet - Dmitry Gorchev. The prize supports realistic and meta-realistic short fiction written in Russian, regardless of the author’s place of residence and citizenship.
In the 2016 season, the prize is awarded in two categories: “Beauty/Abomination” - texts written outside the city (short story, essay, travel diary) and “About One Man” - texts about the metropolis (short story, fairy tale, grotesque, absurdist realism).
In 2016, the prize for the winner in each of the nominations is 5,000 rubles. From the stories of the authors shortlisted for the award, a collection is formed, which is published both in paper form (by print-on-demand method) and e-book. Additional prizes in 2016: Audience Award - original drawing by Dmitry Gorchev.
Applications accepted until July 5.
Award website: http://gostilovo.ru/gorchev
SPECIALIZED
(establishing a number of restrictions for authors)
RUSSIAN PRIZE
The Russian Prize was established in 2005 and is one of the five most prestigious Russian literary awards. Authors who write in Russian and permanently reside outside the Russian Federation can be nominated. A partially rotating jury awards prizes in three categories - “short prose”, “large prose” and “poetry”, as well as a special prize for the preservation of Russian literature abroad. Nomination of manuscripts and autonomy are allowed. The cash value of the first prize in each category is 150,000 rubles. A publishing program is provided, carried out in partnership with the capital's publishing houses.
Among its laureates are Bakhyt Kenzheev, Boris Khazanov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Anastasia Afanasyeva, Marina Paley, Vladimir Lorchenkov, Mariam Petrosyan, Marianna Goncharova, Dina Rubina, Andrey Polyakov, and others.
In April 2016 this season was announced.
Award website: russpremia.ru
DETECTIVE WITHOUT BORDERS – 2016
International literary competition, organized by Strelbitsky Multimedia Publishing House together with the Andronum Publishing Union.
The competition accepts works that meet the criteria of the “Detective” genre, written in any language, without restrictions.
The competition is apolitical and socially responsible. Texts containing profanity, scenes of violence, pornography, calls for war, national, religious or other intolerance, as well as immoral, offensive and degrading human dignity, etc., as well as texts with other content prohibited by law.
The main prize is $10,000. 5 incentive prizes of $500 each. The works of the laureate, prize-winners and nominees are published at the expense of the publishing house.
Deadlines for accepting work - until September 10 2016.
Competition website: www.strelbooks.com/action
RAINBOW
The Russian-Italian literary prize "Rainbow" was established in 2010 by the Litistituti im. A. M. Gorky and the Verona non-profit association “Understanding Eurasia”.
The competition is held in two categories: “Young Writer” and “Young Translator”. Citizens of the Russian Federation aged 18 to 35 can take part in it. Stories and translations into Russian that have not been published before (including on the Internet) and have not been submitted to other competitions, no more than 10 thousand characters with spaces, are allowed to participate.
The amount of the prize in the “Young Writer” nomination is 5,000 euros, in the “Young Translator” nomination - 2,500 euros.
The best works, five each from Russia and Italy, are published in literary almanac"Rainbow" Prize.
Among other things, the award winners annually go on a “creative trip” to another country. In 2013, Italians traveled through the cities of the Central region, in 2014 Russian writers traveled around Northern Italy, last year Italians traveled through famous.
In 2015, 466 applications from 27 provinces of Italy and 16 regions of Russia were submitted to the competition, and the winners were only . The story of one of the award winners, Ambra Simeone, can be read on our website by going to .
The deadline for submitting works in 2016 has ended January 20.
Prize Regulations: on the website of Banca Intesa.
MANUSCRIPT OF THE YEAR
“Manuscript of the Year” is the first prize in Russia that considers not published works, but manuscripts—original author’s texts. Only young, previously unpublished authors' manuscripts participate in the competition. The prize was established by the Astrel-SPb publishing house (AST) in 2009.
The 2015 Grand Prix was awarded to the young St. Petersburg writer Sofya Yanovitskaya. She was awarded a laureate diploma, a valuable prize and, most importantly, the right to publish a manuscript on a royalty basis in one of the leading publishing houses in Russia -. The work of Masha Rupasova was recognized as “Best Children's Book”.
In 2016, applications were accepted until April 10.
Award website: www.astrel-spb.ru/premiya-qrukopis-godaq.html
BELYAEV PRIZE (ALEXANDER BELYAEV PRIZE)
The annual Russian literary prize, awarded for scientific, artistic and popular science works, has existed since 1990. Named after the Russian Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Romanovich Belyaev, but refused to accept science fiction works in favor of educational literature. The prize is awarded to writers, translators, literary critics, as well as publishing houses, paper and online periodicals. The prize does not have a monetary component, it consists of a breast medal and a diploma (for twice laureates - a table medal and a diploma; for three times laureates - a silver breast medal and a diploma), awarded on behalf of the Organizing Committee of the Belyaev Prize, the Council on Fantastic, Adventure and Science Fiction fiction and the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg.
The work of any author living in the region can be nominated for the prize. Russian Federation or beyond its borders, if it is written and published in Russian.
The list of 2015 laureates can be found.
Website of the Belyaev Prize and Festival: belfest.org
PRIZES FOR TRANSLATORS
READ RUSSIA
The only one Russian Prize for the best translation of works of Russian literature into foreign languages. Established with the support of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, the Institute of Translation and Rospechat as part of a project of the same name aimed at popularizing and distributing Russian literature abroad.
In 2016, the prize will be awarded for the translation of works of Russian literature into the following world languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, German, Polish, French, Japanese. Translations published by foreign publishers in 2014 and 2015 are accepted for the competition.
The winners of the award receive special diplomas and a medal, as well as a monetary reward of 5,000 euros for the translator and 3,000 euros in the form of a grant for the publishing house to cover the costs of translating another work of Russian literature. RUSSIA - ITALY. THROUGH THE CENTURIES
The International Literary Prize is awarded for the best translation from Russian into Italian and is awarded to both the translator and the publisher for works published within the last two years. Established in 2007 on the initiative of the Yeltsin Foundation. Since 2010, the official partner of the award is the Yeltsin Presidential Center. The main prize is a bronze open book by sculptor Viktor Kryuchkov in a leather case and a monetary reward that the translator and publisher receive.
In 2015 main prize was awarded to Ornella Discaccati for her translation of Platonov’s novel “Chevengur”, as well as a prize and diploma for the translation debut of Giacomo Foni for his translation of Nikolai Berdyaev’s book “Philosophy of Inequality. Letters to enemies."
Translator Awards Page on the website of the Yeltsin Presidential Center.
GORKY PRIZE
The International Literary Gorky Prize was established in 2008 by the Chernomyrdin Regional Public Foundation, the Gorky Prize Association and the municipality of Capri with the aim of encouraging and developing creative activity in the field of fiction and literary translation Russia and Italy. The Gorky Prize is awarded in two main categories - “Writers” and “Translators”. The list of works proposed for consideration by the jury consists of works in the genre of long prose (novel, story), published in translation (in Russian or Italian, respectively) within twenty years preceding the year of the competition.
The award nominees alternate between Russian and Italian writers.
You can read about it on our portal.
Award website: www.premiogorky.com
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK
Established in 2009 by the children's publishing house Rosmen. First of all, to find new authors. In this regard, it allows and encourages self-nomination. The jury of the award consists mainly of Rosman employees and authors published there. There are three categories - for ages 2–8 years and 10–16 years, as well as (for artists). The main prize of the competition is a contract with Rosman to publish the winning book. However, editors sometimes take on works from the short and long lists.
BOOK
All-Russian competition for the best literary work for children and youth, organized by the Center for Support of Russian Literature (which holds the Big Book Award). “Kniguru” is the only competition in the world that accepts both artistic and educational works, and the final decision is made by an open jury consisting of readers aged 10 to 16 years.
The winner receives 500,000 rubles, the second and third place holders receive 300,000 and 200,000 rubles, respectively.
SHORT CHILDREN'S WORK
A competition organized in 2010 by the publishing house “Nastya and Nikita”. Held twice a year - in spring and. Over six years, eighteen books were published as a result of the competition.
yourself in the role children's writer Anyone over the age of 18 can. For this it is necessary until April 1 2016, register your work on the competition website. The competition is held in three categories: literary texts for children (fairy tales and short stories), educational texts for children (travel books, knowledge, biographies) and “Notes of a Naturalist” (artistic and educational prose for children about Russian nature).
Competition website: www.litdeti.ru/pravila
You can read about these and other children's competitions.
IN literary world A wide variety of prizes are awarded: in the field of poetry and prose, drama and science fiction, lyricism and detective fiction. However, not every prize testifies to the quality of the literature that was awarded.
Generally recognized awards are collected in our Top 10 most prestigious literary awards. From among the winners of these awards, you can safely choose books worthy of reading.
The award was established in the United States by emigrants from Russia in 1999. It is awarded for contribution to the development of Russian-American culture and strengthening international ties between countries. The laureates were V. Aksenov, M. Epstein, V. Bachanyan, O. Vasiliev.
9. Prize H.K. Andersen
This prize is awarded in the field of children's literature, both for the works themselves and for illustrations to them. The prize winners were Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jansson, Gianni Rodari.
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The annual award in the field of literature is presented to laureates selected both by popular vote and by an expert commission. Holders book prize Runet 2013 has already been named on the pages.
7. Russian Booker
This prize is awarded for best novel in Russian. The laureates of the Russian Booker were Bulat Okudzhava, Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Vasily Aksenov. Along with the main prize, the “Student Booker” is also awarded, the jury of which includes undergraduate and graduate students.
6. Southeast Asian Literary Award
This international literary prize recognizes the best poetry and prose works authors from ASEAN countries. The Chairman of the Prize Organizing Committee is the Prince of Thailand, Prem Purachatra.
5. ABS premium
The Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Prize is awarded for best works in the field of fiction, written in Russian. The award winners are Evgeny Lukin, Kir Bulychev, Dmitry Bykov.
4. Booker Prize
For many, this prize is the most prestigious in the world of English-language literature. The winner is awarded a check for 50,000 British pounds. Four times in history, Booker laureates have also received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
3. Prix Goncourt
The French literary prize has been awarded annually since 1903. According to the statute, the prize can be awarded to any author only once during his lifetime. Over the years, the Prix Goncourt was awarded to Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir, and Alphonse de Chateaubriand.
2. Pulitzer Prize
This American prize has been awarded since 1911. The main prize is 10 thousand US dollars. Despite the fact that laureates almost never appear on book bestseller lists, the prize is considered one of the most prestigious in the literary world.
1. Nobel Prize in Literature
This prestigious award is given annually for achievements in the field of literature. The winners are mainly writers from Europe and the United States, so the award is often criticized for bias. Among Russian authors, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Nobel Prize was created by and named after the Swedish industrialist, inventor and chemical engineer, Alfred Nobel. It is considered the most prestigious in the world. The laureates receive gold medal, which depicts A. B. Nobel, a diploma, as well as a check for a large sum. The latter consists of the amount of profits that the Nobel Foundation receives. In 1895 he made a will, according to which his capital was placed in bonds, shares and loans. The income that this money brings is divided equally into five parts every year and becomes a prize for achievements in five areas: chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, and also for activities to strengthen peace.
The first Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded on December 10, 1901, and has since been awarded annually on that date, which is the anniversary of Nobel's death. The winners are awarded in Stockholm by the Swedish king himself. After receiving the award, Nobel Prize winners in literature must give a lecture on their work within 6 months. This is an indispensable condition for receiving the award.
The decision on who is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature is made by the Swedish Academy, located in Stockholm, as well as the Nobel Committee itself, which announces only the number of applicants, without naming their names. The selection procedure itself is secret, which sometimes causes angry reviews from critics and ill-wishers who claim that the award is given for political reasons and not for literary achievements. Main argument, which is cited as evidence, are Nabokov, Tolstoy, Bokhres, Joyce, who were bypassed for the prize. However, the list of authors who received it still remains impressive. There are five writers from Russia who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more about each of them below.
The 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded for the 107th time, going to Patrick Modiano and screenwriter. That is, since 1901, 111 writers have received the award (since four times it was awarded to two authors at the same time).
It would take quite a long time to list all the laureates and get to know each of them. The most famous and widely read Nobel Prize winners in literature and their works are brought to your attention.
1. William Golding, 1983
William Golding received the award for his famous novels, of which there are 12 in his oeuvre. The most famous, Lord of the Flies and The Descendants, are among the best-selling books written by Nobel laureates. The novel Lord of the Flies, published in 1954, brought the writer worldwide fame. Critics often compare it to Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in terms of its significance for the development of literature and modern thought in general.
2. Toni Morrison, 1993
The Nobel Prize winners in literature are not only men, but also women. One of them is Toni Morrison. This American writer was born into a working-class family in Ohio. After attending Howard University, where she studied literature and English, she began writing her own works. The first novel, "The Most Blue eyes" (1970), was based on a story she composed for a university literary circle. It is one of Toni Morrison's most popular works. Another of her novels, Sula, published in 1975, was nominated for the National USA.
3. 1962
Most famous works Steinbeck - "East of Eden", "The Grapes of Wrath", "Of Mice and Men". The Grapes of Wrath became a bestseller in 1939, selling more than 50,000 copies and now selling more than 75 million copies. Until 1962, the writer was nominated for the prize 8 times, and he himself believed that he was unworthy of such an award. And many American critics noted that his later novels were much weaker than his previous ones, and responded negatively to this award. In 2013, when some documents from the Swedish Academy (kept secret for 50 years) were declassified, it became clear that the writer was awarded because he was "the best in bad company" that year.
4. Ernest Hemingway, 1954
This writer became one of nine winners of the literature prize, to whom it was awarded not for creativity in general, but for a specific work, namely for the story “The Old Man and the Sea.” The same work, first published in 1952, brought the writer the following year, 1953, another prestigious award - the Pulitzer Prize.
In the same year, the Nobel Committee included Hemingway in the list of candidates, but the winner of the award that time was Winston Churchill, who by that time had already turned 79 years old, and therefore it was decided not to delay the presentation of the award. And Ernest Hemingway became a well-deserved winner of the award the following year, 1954.
5. Marquez, 1982
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 included Gabriel García Márquez among their ranks. He became the first writer from Colombia to receive an award from the Swedish Academy. His books, including Chronicle of a Death Proclaimed, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Love in the Time of Cholera, became the best-selling works written in Spanish in its history. The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), which another Nobel Prize laureate, Pablo Neruda, called the greatest creation in Spanish after Cervantes' Don Quixote, has been translated into more than 25 languages, and the total circulation of the work was more than 50 millions of copies.
6. Samuel Beckett, 1969
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Samuel Beckett in 1969. This Irish writer is one of the most... famous representatives modernism. It was he who, together with Eugene Ionescu, founded the famous “theater of the absurd”. Samuel Beckett wrote his works in two languages - English and French. The most famous creation of his pen was the play "Waiting for Godot", written in French. The plot of the work is as follows. The main characters throughout the play are waiting for a certain Godot, who should bring some meaning to their existence. However, he never appears, so the reader or viewer has to decide for himself what kind of image it was.
Beckett was fond of playing chess, enjoyed success with women, but led a rather secluded lifestyle. He did not even agree to come to the Nobel Prize ceremony, sending his publisher, Jerome Lindon, in his place.
7. 1949
The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 went to William Faulkner. He also initially refused to go to Stockholm to receive the award, but was eventually persuaded by his daughter. John Kennedy sent him an invitation to a dinner organized in honor of Nobel Prize winners. However, Faulkner, who all his life considered himself “not a writer, but a farmer,” in his own words, refused to accept the invitation, citing old age.
The author's most famous and popular novels are The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. However, success did not come to these works immediately; for a long time they practically did not sell. The Sound and the Fury, published in 1929, sold only three thousand copies in its first 16 years of publication. However, in 1949, by the time the author received the Nobel Prize, this novel was already an example classical literature America.
In 2012, a special edition of this work was published in the UK, in which the text was printed 14 different colors, which was done at the request of the writer so that the reader could notice different time planes. The limited edition of the novel was only 1,480 copies and sold out immediately after its release. Now the cost of this book rare edition is estimated at approximately 115 thousand rubles.
8. Doris Lessing, 2007
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded in 2007. This British writer and poet received the award at the age of 88, making her the oldest recipient. She also became the eleventh woman (out of 13) to receive the Nobel Prize.
Lessing was not very popular with critics, since she rarely wrote on topics devoted to pressing social issues; she was even often called a propagandist of Sufism, a teaching that preaches the renunciation of worldly vanity. However, according to The Times magazine, this writer ranks fifth on the list of the 50 greatest British authors published since 1945.
The most popular work Doris Lessing's novel "The Golden Notebook", published in 1962, is considered. Some critics classify it as an example of classic feminist prose, but the writer herself categorically disagrees with this opinion.
9. Albert Camus, 1957
The Nobel Prize in Literature was also awarded to French writers. One of them, a writer, journalist, essayist of Algerian origin, Albert Camus, is the “conscience of the West”. His most famous work is the story "The Stranger", published in 1942 in France. Made in 1946 English translation, sales began, and within a few years the number of copies sold amounted to more than 3.5 million.
Albert Camus is often classified as a representative of existentialism, but he himself did not agree with this and in every possible way denied such a definition. Thus, in a speech delivered at the presentation of the Nobel Prize, he noted that in his work he sought to “avoid outright lies and resist oppression.”
10. Alice Munro, 2013
In 2013, nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature included Alice Munro on their list. A representative of Canada, this novelist became famous in the genre short story. She began writing them early, from her teenage years, but the first collection of her works, entitled “Dance of the Happy Shadows,” was published only in 1968, when the author was already 37 years old. In 1971, the next collection, “The Lives of Girls and Women,” appeared, which critics called “an education novel.” Others her literary works include the books: “Who exactly are you?”, “The Fugitive”, “Too Much Happiness”. One of her collections, “The Hateful Friendship, Courtship, Love, Marriage,” published in 2001, was even made into a Canadian film called “Away From Her,” directed by Sarah Polley. The author's most popular book is " Dear Life", published in 2012.
Munro is often called the "Canadian Chekhov" because the writers' styles are similar. Like the Russian writer, he is characterized by psychological realism and clarity.
Nobel Prize laureates in literature from Russia
To date, five Russian writers have won the prize. The first laureate was I. A. Bunin.
1. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, 1933
This is a famous Russian writer and poet, an outstanding master of realistic prose, and an honorary member St. Petersburg Academy Sci. In 1920, Ivan Alekseevich emigrated to France, and when presenting the award, he noted that the Swedish Academy acted very bravely by awarding the emigrant writer. Among the contenders for this year’s prize was another Russian writer, M. Gorky, however, largely thanks to the publication of the book “The Life of Arsenyev” by that time, the scales nevertheless tipped in the direction of Ivan Alekseevich.
Bunin began writing his first poems at the age of 7-8 years. Later, his famous works were published: the story “The Village”, the collection “Sukhodol”, the books “John the Weeper”, “The Gentleman from San Francisco”, etc. In the 20s he wrote (1924) and “ Sunstroke"(1927). And in 1943, the pinnacle of Ivan Alexandrovich's creativity, a collection of stories, was born" Dark alleys". This book was dedicated to only one topic - love, its “dark” and gloomy sides, as the author wrote in one of his letters.
2. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1958
The Nobel Prize winners in literature from Russia in 1958 included Boris Leonidovich Pasternak on their list. The poet was awarded the prize at a difficult time. He was forced to abandon it under threat of exile from Russia. However, the Nobel Committee regarded Boris Leonidovich’s refusal as forced, and in 1989 transferred the medal and diploma to his son after the writer’s death. Famous novel"Doctor Zhivago" is Pasternak's true artistic testament. This work was written in 1955. Albert Camus, laureate in 1957, spoke with admiration of this novel.
3. Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov, 1965
In 1965, M. A. Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Russia has once again proven to the whole world that it has talented writers. Having started your literary activity as a representative of realism, depicting the deep contradictions of life, Sholokhov, however, in some works finds himself captive of the socialist trend. During the presentation of the Nobel Prize, Mikhail Alexandrovich made a speech in which he noted that in his works he sought to praise “the nation of workers, builders and heroes.”
In 1926 he started his main novel, "Quiet Don", and completed it in 1940, long before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Sholokhov's works were published in parts, including "Quiet Don". In 1928, largely thanks to the assistance of A. S. Serafimovich, friend Mikhail Alexandrovich, the first part appeared in print. The second volume was published the following year. The third was published in 1932-1933, with the assistance and support of M. Gorky. The last, fourth, volume was published in 1940. had an affair great value both for Russian and world literature. It was translated into many languages of the world and became the basis famous opera Ivan Dzerzhinsky, as well as numerous theatrical productions and films.
Some, however, accused Sholokhov of plagiarism (including A.I. Solzhenitsyn), believing that most The work was copied from the manuscripts of F. D. Kryukov, a Cossack writer. Other researchers confirmed the authorship of Sholokhov.
In addition to this work, in 1932 Sholokhov also created “Virgin Soil Upturned,” a work telling about the history of collectivization among the Cossacks. In 1955, the first chapters of the second volume were published, and at the beginning of 1960 the last ones were completed.
At the end of 1942, the third novel, “They Fought for the Motherland,” was published.
4. Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1970
The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 was awarded to A. I. Solzhenitsyn. Alexander Isaevich accepted it, but did not dare to attend the award ceremony because he was afraid of the Soviet government, which regarded the decision of the Nobel Committee as “politically hostile.” Solzhenitsyn was afraid that he would not be able to return to his homeland after this trip, although the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, which he received, increased the prestige of our country. In his work, he touched upon acute socio-political problems and actively fought against communism, its ideas and the policies of the Soviet regime.
The main works of Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn include: “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” (1962), story “ Matrenin Dvor", the novel "In the First Circle" (written from 1955 to 1968), "The Gulag Archipelago" (1964-1970). The first published work was the story "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", which appeared in the magazine " New world". This publication aroused great interest and numerous responses from readers, which inspired the writer to create the Gulag Archipelago. In 1964, Alexander Isaevich’s first story received the Lenin Prize.
However, after a year he loses favor Soviet authorities, and his works are prohibited from being published. His novels “The Gulag Archipelago”, “In the First Circle” and “Cancer Ward” were published abroad, for which the writer was deprived of citizenship in 1974 and he was forced to emigrate. Only 20 years later he managed to return to his homeland. Appears in 2001-2002 a lot of work Solzhenitsyn "Two hundred years together." Alexander Isaevich died in 2008.
5. Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky, 1987
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 joined their ranks with I. A. Brodsky. In 1972, the writer was forced to emigrate to the USA, so world encyclopedia even calls it American. Among all the writers who received the Nobel Prize, he is the youngest. With his lyrics, he comprehended the world as a single cultural and metaphysical whole, and also pointed out the limitations of the perception of man as a subject of knowledge.
Joseph Alexandrovich wrote not only in Russian, but also in English poems, essays, literary criticism. Immediately after the publication of his first collection in the West, in 1965, Brodsky came to international fame. The author’s best books include: “Embankment of the Incurables”, “Part of Speech”, “Landscape with Flood”, “The End” belle époque", "Stop in the Desert" and others.
An award or award is usually awarded on a competitive basis to a person or organization for outstanding results in a particular field of activity. Below is a list of the ten most famous awards in the world.
The ranking of the most famous awards opens with the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious US award in the fields of literature, journalism, music and theater. It was founded on August 17, 1903 by newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer. The prize has been awarded annually in twenty-one categories since 1917. The prize amount is $10,000.
MTV Video Music Awards is an annual award given by MTV for the creation of video clips. The ceremony was first held in 1984 in New York. The record holder for the number of figurines won, the so-called “Moonmanow”, is American singer Madonna, who has won 20 awards.
BRIT Awards
BRIT Awards - the annual most prestigious award Great Britain, awarded for achievements in pop music. The award was first presented in 1977 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee celebrations. Since 1982 it has been awarded annually. The record holder for the number of nominations is British singer Robbie Williams (17 BRIT Awards).
The seventh place in the list of the most famous awards is the Grammy - an annual music award The Recording Academy of America was founded on March 14, 1958. Awarded by voting in 78 categories of 30 musical genres. As of February 2009, a total of 7,578 awards had been given.
The Cannes Film Festival is an annual international film festival founded in 1946. Held at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. The most prestigious award given at the Cannes Film Festival in the category for best film is the Palme d'Or.
Fifth place in the list of the most famous awards in the world goes to the Golden Globe. This is an annual American award, awarded since 1944 for films and television films based on voting by approximately 90 international journalists based in Hollywood. The record holder for the number of nominations is Meryl Streep (29 awards).
BAFTA
BAFTA is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the arts in film, television and computer games. The organization was formed in 1947 under the leadership of David Lean. The first BAFTA Awards took place in 1948 in London. The winners receive a gold mask as a prize.
Third place in the list of the ten most famous awards in the world goes to the Booker Prize. This is the most prestigious literary award, awarded annually in the UK since 1969 for the best original novel written in the English language. The winner of the award receives £50 thousand.
Oscar
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Long list of nominees " Yasnaya Polyana" Upon request The Village Lisa Birger explains why literary prizes are needed at all and whether they can help an amateur begin to navigate modern Russian literature.
Lisa Birger
How and why did literary prizes arise?
Literary awards have existed relatively recently - approximately since the beginning of the twentieth century. We, of course, can consider their forerunners to be the medieval troubadour competitions or the Academy of Sciences awards, which in Tsarist Russia were awarded for works with scientific and educational pathos. But in fact, it is clear that in order for the prize to really have some weight and significance, it is necessary for books to be a market, and literature to be an institution. But this did not happen until the last century, and in some countries (let’s not point fingers) even later. Booksellers need awards to sell books, critics and other market participants need them to identify trends, but most of all, they are needed to build a hierarchy - that is, for order. But since everyone has their own hierarchy, there are very different bonuses.
How many literary prizes are there in Russia?
A lot - much more than you think. There is the Poet Prize and the Debut Prize, the Bunin Prize and the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize, prizes established by the Writers' Union and the FSB. Total - several dozen, if not hundreds, but it is not at all necessary to know them all.
If there are so many awards, how do we choose which one is more important than others?
There are two important factors: money, that is, the size of the prize fund, and the quality of the expertise. For example, the “Big Book” has the second prize fund in the world (after the Nobel Prize) - how can it not be taken seriously after this?
The material reward for the Andrei Bely Prize, which existed since 1978, was one ruble, a bottle of vodka and an apple, but the choice here (until everyone quarreled in 2010) was made by professionals, and the prize remained one of the main ones for a long time. It is important how (and by whom!) books are selected, how (and by whom!) they are evaluated, and even which books we want to choose in the end: the brightest? most innovative? most popular? the most important? If you are looking for an ideal Russian prize, then this is, perhaps, the Enlightener Prize, which has almost nothing to do with fiction, for the best popular science book in Russian (the 2016 longlist was announced on June 7). Two respected Alexanders, Gavrilov and Arkhangelsky, select books for a long list, from which, in turn, a serious scientific jury will make a short list. The selection criteria here are clear and understandable: artistic fascination and scientific accuracy.
Or maybe there is one, but the most important prize?
Alas. But there are several important ones that together will help you get an idea of what’s going on in modern literature. “The Big Book,” for example, is good because it has three winners (first, second and third place) and complex system selection with a bunch of experts - which did not stop her this year from “losing” two of the most important, if not the main books of the year already at the short list level: “Kaleidoscope” by Sergei Kuznetsov and “Shadow of Mazepa” by Sergei Belyakov. “Russian Booker” was supposed to bear the reputation of its British counterpart, but completely lost it in 2010, being awarded the graphomaniac novel “Flower Cross” by Elena Kolyadina. " National bestseller“Everyone tries to follow public taste and as a result often slaps good taste in the face. And so on - here, as in dates on Tinder, the further into the forest, the more impossible it is to meet the ideal.
Are so many novels really written in Russia?
But this is the most amazing thing: even in times of obvious publishing crisis, when there are only a few publishing houses throughout the country that still publish new Russian books, you can collect a long list of several dozen titles. And still, some books do not have a place - for example, book blogger Sergei Osipov regularly compiles his own long list of books that are not included in the “Big Book” list.
When the award winners start to coincide, then talk about trouble. This happens rarely, but, for example, in 2015, Guzel Yakhina’s novel “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes” received both the first “Big Book” award and the “Yasnaya Polyana” award (and “Book of the Year” at the same time). This year, his fate may well be repeated by “Winter Road” by Leonid Yuzefovich, already noted as a “National Bestseller”. On the other hand, it’s easier for us - we’ll have to read less.
Why do awards usually have different winners? After all, they all have to choose best book?
Different juries, from different short lists compiled by different experts, choose, in general, different things. A more personal choice according to the criterion of “what I liked most” exists only in “Natsbest”, “Big Book” votes for the most significant work of the year, “Russian Booker” tries to give an assessment from a more literary perspective. In addition, many awards (for example, Natsbest) have a rule according to which winners of other awards cannot be nominated for them.
Can premiums be wrong?
And how - what is the award of the “Russian Booker” in 2010 to the helpless graphomaniac and almost five minutes pornographic novel by Elena Kolyadina “Flower Cross”. A recent example is the Poet Prize in 2015: Yuliy Kim became its laureate, after which two former laureates, Alexander Kushner and Evgeny Rein, not the last, to put it mildly, poets of our time, left the jury.
In fact, the fairness (or unfairness) of awarding a prize can most often be assessed only after time. And here - a very telling example - all these expert advice and cunning jury votes sometimes allow you to miss the most important thing. In 2011, Russian Booker, not having time to go through the full nomination procedure due to a change of sponsor, decided to choose not the best book of the year, but general ledger decades from the nominees of previous years. The winner was Alexander Chudakov’s almost unnoticed novel “A Darkness Falls on the Old Steps” from the shortlist for the 2001 Booker Prize. Only ten years later it became clear that this autobiographical “idyll novel” about how one could live the 20th century with honor turned out to be more important in the end than the fantasies about this very century by Mikhail Shishkin and Lyudmila Ulitskaya.
What to do if it doesn’t get any easier?
The simplest thing is not to try to understand all the awards at once, but to choose the one that you like best and read all its nominees. A short list of literary awards for your reference looks something like this: “Big Book”, “Russian Booker”, “National Bestseller”, “NOS”, “Yasnaya Polyana”. Well, there is also the “Enlightener” award, the laureates (and shortlisted nominees) of which you should read all of them in their entirety, if you read anything at all.
"Big Book"
Prize with ambition
A huge prize fund, a complex system of nominations, several winners and an attempt at all levels to involve as many experts as possible: in the Literary Academy alone, which determines the winners by voting, there are about a hundred people. Thanks to all this, the Big Book, which has existed since 2005, managed to achieve the status of almost the main prize in Russia. It may not yet affect literary process(the winner will not wake up famous), but it quite reflects its course.
Procedure:
From the nominated works (almost anyone can nominate a book or manuscript), a council of experts first selects a long list (April), then a short list (May), and then the books on the short list are read for six months and assigned points by members of the Literary Academy of the Prize. If there are about a hundred people in the academy itself, then the council of experts is narrow and strict and consists mainly of editors of thick journals, so if the “Big Book” manages to overlook and ignore something important, then, as a rule, it is still at the level of a long list.
It is formed by the Prize's Board of Trustees - it usually includes journalists, writers and cultural figures.
Prize fund:
The winner of the “Big Book” receives 3 million rubles, the second and third place holders receive one and a half and a million, respectively.
Laureates:
One can argue about the distribution of seats, but a look at “ Big book"really reflects literary situation decades. “The Laurel” by Evgeny Vodolazkin, “Telluria” by Vladimir Sorokin, “The Flood Zone” by Roman Senchin, “The Abode” by Zakhar Prilepin, “The Candle” by Valery Zalotukha - so different, these novels have really been the most discussed in recent years.
Three Important Book Laureates
Valery Zalotukha
"Candle"
M.: “Time”
Second Prize 2015
A grandiose (one and a half thousand pages!) “novel about everything,” but in fact, first of all, about how we all (using the example of an individual hero) live and burn.
Vladimir Sorokin “Telluria”
Second Prize 2014
The most significant novel by a modern classic to date, the latest and most accurate forecast of our unhappy future.
Sergey Belyakov
"Gumilyov, son of Gumilyov"
Second Prize 2013
Not the last in a series of outstanding second prizes - historical novel Sergei Belyakov about Lev Gumilyov, valuable not only for his attentiveness and honesty towards the hero and his ideas, but also for the author’s ability to tell this complex story without fantasy or vulgarity to a wide circle readers.
"Yasnaya Polyana"
In search of classics
The Yasnaya Polyana Prize is distinguished by an impressive prize fund and a tendency towards consistency: the same jury, using the same criteria, selects books of constant quality. The choice is sometimes too obvious, sometimes strange, but one cannot help but be glad to be able to trust it.
Procedure:
Experts (magazines, critics, publishing houses, jury members) nominate books, from which the same jury first selects a long list (June), then a short list (September), and then winners in several categories (October).
“Yasnaya Polyana” has an almost unchanged jury consisting of honorary literary scholars and critics, its permanent chairman is Vladimir Tolstoy, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art.
Prize fund:
7 million rubles. Most big win- the winner of the “XXI Century” nomination: 2 million.
Laureates:
The main idea of “Yasnaya Polyana” is to reward for closeness to the classics, and the two main nominations are for those who have already become classics (the nomination is called “Modern Classics”) and those who are just striving for this (the “XXI Century” nomination) ). As a result, the first nomination is awarded as if for merit, and based on the totality of the latter, Andrei Bitov, Valentin Rasputin and Fazil Iskander became winners in different years. And in the second nomination, the fate of the “Big Book” is often duplicated, which is awarded later and does not look back at “Yasnaya Polyana”: “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes” by Guzeli Yakhina in 2015, “Laurel” by Evgeny Vodolazkin in 2013.
And yet, “Yasnaya Polyana” has the remarkable ability to highlight strong and strong literature- “The Island” by Vasily Golovanov, stories for children by Yuri Nechiporenko, stories by Mikhail Tarkovsky. Well, the long list of the “Foreign Literature” nomination over the years can even be considered a list of required reading.
Three important laureate books:
Vasily Golovanov
"Island"
M.: Ad Marginem
2009 Award
Ten years of travel to the polar island of Kolguev - the search for the meaning of life in a single space. It is significant that “The Island” won the award the second time - it was published in 2002 almost unnoticed and only in 2008 was it triumphantly republished in Ad Marginem as - deservedly - one of the main books of the decade.
Lyudmila Saraskina "Alexander Solzhenitsyn"
M.: “Young Guard”
2008 Award
An outstanding biography of one of the greatest Russian writers of the last century, both in terms of the amount of material and the author’s ability to maintain a poker face towards his hero in difficult moments.
Alexey Ivanov
"The gold of rebellion"
or Down the River Gorges"
St. Petersburg: “ABC-classics”
2006 Award
It’s hard to believe, but all the big three literary awards diligently bypassed the most read and popular author of the decade: in his piggy bank only “Yasnaya Polyana” for the historical novel “The Gold of Rebellion”.
"Russian Booker"
Poor little brother
The Russian Booker Prize is the younger brother of the British Booker Prize. It was created in 1992 at the initiative of the British Council, but eventually became something completely different. Like its British older brother, the Russian Booker Prize changes its jury every year (we were never able to see the ideal British ratio of booksellers, writers, publishers and experts in the jury; for the Booker Prize they are weighed in grams). The result is inconsistency and taste - we never know what surprises to expect from this jury, and more often than others we want to challenge its decisions. Even the long list of awards is significantly limited by the fact that it is formed almost exclusively by publishers. Paradoxically, however, it is precisely the imperfect choice of the Russian Booker that often allows it to create trends rather than follow them, but the status of one of the oldest independent awards does not allow us to give up on it completely.
Procedure:
All publishers, as well as selected libraries and universities, have the right to nominate for the Booker. From the nominated books, the jury selects a long list in July, a short list in October, and by December announces the winner - usually timed to coincide with the non/fiction fair.
Five people - as a rule, writers, critics, philologists (publishers and librarians usually fall out, since they have the right to nominate), who change every year.
Prize fund
The laureate receives 1,500,000 rubles, the finalists receive ten times less.
Laureates:
Andrey Volos (the novel “Return to Panjrud”), but not Evgeny Vodolazkin (“Laurel”), Alexander Snegirev (“Vera”), but not Roman Senchin (“Flood Zone”), Elena Kolyadina (“Flower Cross”), but not Margarita Hemlin (“Klotsvog”). The list of imperfect Booker decisions can be continued for a long time, but we are used to it, we don’t complain - and we even get some pleasure from the process.
Three important laureate books:
Andrey Volos
"Return to Panjrud"
2013 Award
Long road from Bukhara to Panjrud a guide boy and a blind old man, but since the old man is actually -the greatest poet(and a real historical figure), their journey eventually becomes something more than a simple road story. Andrey Volos reveals to us the medieval East in a fascinating, rapturous and knowledgeable way, and the prize that everyone predicted for Evgeniy Vodolazkin that year has rarely been so deserved.
Vladimir Sharov “Return to Egypt”
M.: Edited by Elena Shubina
2014 Award
A novel in the letters of the descendants of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, in which one of the heroes casually writes “Dead Souls” - the book continues in our time the thoughts and aspirations of the century before last.
Olga Slavnikova
"2017"
M.: "Vagrius"
2006 Award
A Ural dystopia that grew out of Bazhov’s fairy tales, Slavnikova was one of the first authors to figure out what the reader wants.
"National bestseller"
If there are no bestsellers, you need to invent them
The “National Bestseller” award was invented in 2001 as a truly democratic one: here Sergei Shnurov, Ksenia Sobchak or Artemy Troitsky could suddenly turn out to be the honorary chairman of the jury. Professionals and experts usually draw up a long list of nominators - and here they are especially careful to ensure that everyone participates in the process. In the end, it still turns out to be rock and roll, but since it usually begins only at the last stage, “Natsbest”, as a rule, has funny short lists and long interesting lists. The award also really dreams that its motto “Wake up famous” will be fulfilled for the laureate, but since you still can’t enter it from the street, this has not happened yet.
Procedure:
Nominators nominate books to a long list. The grand jury, each member of which has the right to choose two works from it and give them three and one points respectively, votes for the short list (this voting is open - reviews and jury scores can be read on the website). The small jury again chooses the winner by open vote. Everything happens quite quickly: in February there is a long list, in April there is a short list, and in June there is already a winner, so why wait?
