South African John Maxwell Coetzee is the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999). In 2003, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for creating countless guises for amazing situations involving outsiders." Coetzee's novels are characterized by well thought out composition, rich dialogue and analytical skill. He subjects cruel rationalism and artificial morality to merciless criticism. Western civilization. At the same time, Coetzee is one of those writers who rarely talks about his work, and even less often about himself. However, "Scenes from provincial life", amazing autobiographical novel, - exception. Here Coetzee is extremely frank with the reader. He talks about the painful, suffocating love of his mother, about the hobbies and mistakes that followed him for years, and about the path that he had to go through to finally start writing.
"Humble Hero" by Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa is an outstanding Peruvian novelist and playwright who received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of power structures and vivid images resistance, revolt and defeat of the individual. Continuing the line of the great Latin American writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, he creates amazing novels that balance on the verge of reality and fiction. In Vargas Llosa's new book, The Humble Hero, in an elegant rhythm, the mariners masterfully twist two parallel storylines. The hard worker Felicito Yanake, decent and trusting, becomes a victim of strange blackmailers. At the same time, a successful businessman, Ismael Carrera, in the twilight of his life, seeks revenge on his two idle sons, who long for his death. And Ismael and Felicito, of course, are not heroes at all. However, where others cowardly agree, the two stage a quiet rebellion. On the pages of the new novel, old acquaintances also flicker - the characters of the world created by Vargas Llosa.
Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
Canadian writer Alice Munro is a master of modern short story, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Critics constantly compare Munro to Chekhov, and this comparison is not without foundation: like a Russian writer, she knows how to tell a story in such a way that readers, even those who belong to a completely different culture, recognize themselves in the characters. So these twelve stories, presented in a seemingly simple language, reveal amazing plot abysses. On some twenty pages, Munro manages to create the whole world- lively, tangible and incredibly attractive.
"Beloved" Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison received in 1993 Nobel Prize in literature as a writer, “who, in her novels full of dreams and poetry, revived important aspect American reality. Her most famous novel, Beloved, was published in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize. The book is based on real events that took place in Ohio in the 80s of the nineteenth century: this is an amazing story of a black slave, Sethy, who decided on a terrible act - to give freedom, but take life. Sethie kills her daughter to save her from slavery. A novel about how difficult it is sometimes to tear out the memory of the past from the heart, about the difficult choice that changes fate, and about people who will forever remain loved.
"Woman from Nowhere" by Jean-Marie Gustave LeClésio
Jean-Marie Gustave Leclezio, one of the largest living French writers, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008. He is the author of thirty books, including novels, short stories, essays and articles. In the presented book, for the first time in Russian, two stories by Leklezio are published at once: “The Tempest” and “The Woman from Nowhere”. The action of the first takes place on an island lost in the Sea of Japan, the second - in Côte d'Ivoire and the Parisian suburbs. However, despite such a vast geography, the heroines of both stories are very similar in some ways - they are teenage girls who are desperately striving to find their place in an unfriendly, hostile world. Frenchman Leklezio, who lived for a long time in the countries South America, in Africa, South-East Asia, Japan, Thailand and on its native island Mauritius, writes about how a person who grew up in the bosom of pristine nature feels himself in the oppressive space of modern civilization.
"My Strange Thoughts" Orhan Pamuk
Turkish prose writer Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 "for being in search of a melancholic soul hometown found new symbols for the collision and interweaving of cultures. "My Strange Thoughts" - last novel author, on which he worked for six years. Main character, Mevlut, works on the streets of Istanbul, watching the streets fill with new people, and the city gains and loses new and old buildings. Coups are being committed before his eyes, the authorities are replacing each other, and Mevlut is still wandering the streets winter evenings, wondering what makes him different from other people, why he is visited by strange thoughts about everything in the world, and who is really his beloved, to whom he has been writing letters for the past three years.
"Legends of Modernity. Occupation Essays by Cheslav Miloš
Czesław Milosz is a Polish poet and essayist who received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature "for showing with fearless clairvoyance the insecurity of man in a world torn by conflict." “Legends of Modernity” is the “confession of the son of the century” translated into Russian for the first time, written by Milos on the ruins of Europe in 1942-1943. It includes essays on outstanding literary (Defoe, Balzac, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Gide, Witkevich) and philosophical (James, Nietzsche, Bergson) texts, and polemical correspondence between C. Miloš and E. Andrzejewski. Exploring modern myths and prejudices, appealing to the tradition of rationalism, Milosz is trying to find a foothold for European culture, humiliated by the two world wars.
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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 PRIZE
Oldest independent literary award modern Russia- first presented in 1978 by the editors of the Leningrad samizdat almanac "Clock". Since that time, in accordance with the changing eras, it has gone through several transformations, but has retained the spirit of nonconformism and focus on the new and unusual. As well as the corresponding unique "prize fund": a bottle of vodka, one apple and one ruble. Despite this, the award enjoys unwavering respect in the professional community.
The NOS Prize was established in 2009 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. The feature of the award is public discussion between the "jury of the award" and the "experts of the award" (both of them 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, in the course (at the same time, short list), and in Moscow (in this case, the winner is determined). The monetary component of the award is 700,000 rubles.
In 2015, the total amount of the bonus fund increased significantly and amounted to 7,000,000 rubles, the winner in the nomination " Modern classic”, received 1,500,000 rubles, the winner in the nomination “XXI century” - 2,000,000 rubles, the winner in the nomination “Childhood. 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 received 200,000 rubles.
applications were accepted until April 10.
Award website: yppremia.ru
DELVIGA PRIZE
Award "For fidelity to the Word and Fatherland" named after the first editor of the "Literaturnaya Gazeta" Anton Delvig. Established by Literaturnaya Gazeta as an annual Russian national award in 2012.
Artistic organizations and/or publishing houses can submit works.
Prize fund - 7,000,000 rubles: three first prizes of 1,000,000 rubles each (with the Delvig Gold Medal), six second prizes of 500,000 rubles each (with the Delvig Silver Medal), four Debut awards 250,000 rubles each (with the presentation of laureate diplomas). 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 winners 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 of Runet - Dmitry Gorchev. The award supports realistic and meta-realistic short fiction written in Russian, regardless of the place of residence and citizenship of the author.
In the 2016 season, the prize is awarded in two categories: "Beauty / Abomination" - texts written outside the city (story, essay, travel diary) and "About one person" - texts about the metropolis (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 included in the shortlist of the award, a collection is formed, which is published both in paper form (using the 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
(setting 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. Partially rotated jury awards prizes in three categories - " small prose”, “great prose” and “poetry”, as well as a special prize for the preservation of Russian literature abroad. Manuscript nomination and autonomination are allowed. The cash content of the first prize in each nomination is 150,000 rubles. There is a publishing program implemented 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 announced this season.
Award website: russpremia.ru
DETECTIVE WITHOUT BORDERS – 2016
International literary competition, organized by the 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 those that are immoral, offensive and humiliating are not accepted for participation in the competition. human dignity etc., as well as texts with other content prohibited by law.
The main prize is $10,000. 5 incentive awards of $500 each. The works of the laureate, prize-winners and nominees are published at the expense of the publishing house.
Terms of acceptance of works - until September 10 2016.
Competition website: www.strelbooks.com/action
RAINBOW
The Russian-Italian literary prize "Rainbow" was established in 2010 by the Litistitut im. A. M. Gorky and the Verona non-profit association "Knowing 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 award 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 five from Italy, are published in the literary almanac of the Rainbow Prize.
Among other things, the laureates of the award annually go on a "creative business trip" to another country. In 2013, the Italians drove through the cities of the Central Region, in 2014 Russian writers traveled through Northern Italy, last year the Italians wandered through the famous.
In 2015, 466 applications from 27 provinces of Italy and 16 regions of Russia were submitted to the competition, and only . The story of one of the winners of the award - Ambra Simeone - can be read on our website by clicking on .
Submission deadline for 2016 has ended January 20th.
Award Regulations: on the site and Banca Intesa.
MANUSCRIPTION OF THE YEAR
"Manuscript of the Year" is the first award in Russia that considers not published works, but manuscripts - original author's texts. Manuscripts of only young, previously unpublished authors participate in the competition. The award was established by the Astrel-SPb (AST) publishing house in 2009.
The 2015 Grand Prix went to a young St. Petersburg writer Sofya Yanovitskaya. She was awarded a laureate diploma, 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 the "Best Children's Book".
In 2016, applications were accepted until April 10th.
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 fantastic 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 award 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 laureates - a silver breast medal and a diploma), presented on behalf of the Organizing Committee of the Belyaev Prize, the Council for Science Fiction, Adventure and Science and Art literature and the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg.
A work of any author living in Russian Federation or outside it, if it is written and published in Russian.
The list of 2015 laureates can be found here.
Website of the Belyaev Prize and Festival: belfest.org
PRIZES FOR TRANSLATORS
READ RUSSIA
the only Russian Prize behind best translation 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 disseminating 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. The competition accepts translations published by foreign publishers in 2014 and 2015.
The winners of the award receive special diplomas and a medal, as well as a monetary reward of 5,000 euros for a translator and 3,000 euros in the form of a grant for a publishing house to cover the cost of translating another work of Russian literature. RUSSIA - ITALY. THROUGH THE AGES
The International Literary Prize is awarded for the best translation from Russian into Italian and is given 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. Grand Prize - Bronze open book the work of the sculptor Viktor Kryuchkov in a leather case and the monetary reward that the translator and publisher receive.
In 2015 main prize was awarded Ornella Discacciati for the translation of Platonov's novel "Chevengur", also a prize and a diploma for the translation debut of Giacomo Foni for the translation of Nikolai Berdyaev's book "The Philosophy of Inequality. Letters to enemies.
Awards Page for Translators on the website of the Yeltsin Presidential Center.
GORKY PRIZE
The Gorky International Literary Prize was established in 2008 by the regional public fund Chernomyrdin, the Gorky Prize Association and the municipality of the city of Capri in order to encourage and develop creative activity in area fiction and literary translation of 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 members consists of works in the genre of large-scale prose (novel, story), published in translation (respectively, in Russian or Italian) within twenty years preceding the year of the competition.
Russian and Italian writers alternately become the nominees for the award.
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 search for new authors. In this regard, it allows and encourages self-nomination. The award jury consists mainly of Rosmen employees and authors published in it. There are three categories - for ages 2–8 and 10–16, and (for artists). The main prize of the competition is a contract with Rosman for the publication of the winning book. However, editors sometimes take works from the short and long lists into work.
BOOK
All-Russian competition for the best literary work for children and youth, organized by the Center for the Support of Russian Literature (which holds the Big Book award). "Kniguru" is the only competition in the world that accepts both fiction 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 winners receive 300,000 and 200,000 rubles, respectively.
SHORT CHILDREN'S ART
Competition organized in 2010 by the Nastya and Nikita publishing house. Held twice a year - in spring and. Eighteen books were published as a result of the competition in six years.
yourself in the role children's writer Anyone over the age of 18 can. For this it is necessary until April 1 2016 to register a work on the competition website. The competition is held in three categories: literary texts for children (fairy tales and stories), educational texts for children (travel books, knowledge, biographies) and Notes of a Naturalist (fiction and educational prose for children about Russian nature).
Competition website: www.litdeti.ru/pravila
You can read about these and other children's competitions.
On December 10, 1933, King Gustav V of Sweden presented the Nobel Prize in Literature to the writer Ivan Bunin, who became the first Russian writer to receive this high award. In total, the award, established by the inventor of dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel in 1833, was received by 21 natives of Russia and the USSR, five of them in the field of literature. True, historically, the Nobel Prize was fraught with big problems for Russian poets and writers.
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin handed out the Nobel Prize to friends
In December 1933, the Paris press wrote: Without a doubt, I.A. Bunin - for last years, - the most powerful figure in Russian fiction and poetry», « the king of literature confidently and equally shook hands with the crowned monarch". The Russian emigration applauded. In Russia, the news that a Russian emigrant received the Nobel Prize was treated very caustically. After all, Bunin negatively perceived the events of 1917 and emigrated to France. Ivan Alekseevich himself experienced emigration very hard, was actively interested in the fate of his abandoned homeland and during the Second World War he categorically refused all contacts with the Nazis, having moved to the Alpes-Maritimes in 1939, returning from there to Paris only in 1945.
It is known that Nobel laureates have the right to decide for themselves how to spend the money they receive. Someone invests in the development of science, someone in charity, someone in their own business. Bunin, a creative person and devoid of "practical ingenuity", disposed of his bonus, which amounted to 170,331 crowns, completely irrationally. The poet and literary critic Zinaida Shakhovskaya recalled: “ Returning to France, Ivan Alekseevich ... apart from money, began to arrange feasts, distribute "allowances" to emigrants, and donate funds to support various societies. Finally, on the advice of well-wishers, he invested the remaining amount in some kind of “win-win business” and was left with nothing.».
Ivan Bunin is the first émigré writer to be published in Russia. True, the first publications of his stories appeared already in the 1950s, after the death of the writer. Some of his novels and poems were published in his homeland only in the 1990s.
Dear God, what are you for?
He gave us passions, thoughts and worries,
Thirst for business, glory and comfort?
Joyful cripples, idiots,
The leper is the happiest of all.
(I. Bunin. September, 1917)
Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize
Boris Pasternak was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature "for significant achievements in contemporary lyric poetry, as well as for continuing the traditions of the great Russian epic novel" annually from 1946 to 1950. In 1958, his candidacy was again proposed by last year's Nobel laureate Albert Camus, and on October 23, Pasternak became the second Russian writer to receive this award.The writers' environment in the poet's homeland took this news extremely negatively, and already on October 27, Pasternak was unanimously expelled from the Writers' Union of the USSR, at the same time submitting a petition to deprive Pasternak of Soviet citizenship. In the USSR, Pasternak was associated with receiving the award only with his novel Doctor Zhivago. The Literary Gazette wrote: “Pasternak received “thirty pieces of silver”, for which the Nobel Prize was used. He was rewarded for agreeing to play the role of bait on the rusty hook of anti-Soviet propaganda ... An inglorious end awaits the resurrected Judas, Doctor Zhivago, and his author, whose lot will be popular contempt ".
The mass campaign launched against Pasternak forced him to refuse the Nobel Prize. The poet sent a telegram to the Swedish Academy, in which he wrote: Because of the significance that the award awarded to me has received in the society to which I belong, I must refuse it. Do not take my voluntary refusal as an insult».
It should be noted that in the USSR until 1989, even in school curriculum there was no mention of Pasternak's work in the literature. The first to decide to massively acquaint Soviet people with creative Pasternak directed by Eldar Ryazanov. In his comedy "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" (1976) he included the poem "There Will Be No One in the House", transforming it into an urban romance, performed by the bard Sergei Nikitin. Ryazanov later included in his film " Love affair at work"an excerpt from another poem by Pasternak -" Loving others is a heavy cross ..." (1931). True, he sounded in a farcical context. But it is worth noting that at that time the very mention of Pasternak's poems was a very bold step.
Easy to wake up and see
Shake verbal rubbish from the heart
And live without clogging in the future,
All this is not a big trick.
(B. Pasternak, 1931)
Mikhail Sholokhov, receiving the Nobel Prize, did not bow to the monarch
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 for his novel Quiet Don” and went down in history as the only Soviet writer who received this award with the consent of the Soviet leadership. The laureate's diploma reads "in recognition artistic power and honesty, which he showed in his Don epic about the historical phases of the life of the Russian people.
Presenter of the award Soviet writer Gustav Adolf VI called him "one of the most prominent writers our time". Sholokhov did not bow to the king, as prescribed by the rules of etiquette. Some sources claim that he did it intentionally with the words: “We, the Cossacks, do not bow to anyone. Here in front of the people - please, but I will not be in front of the king ... "
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was deprived of Soviet citizenship because of the Nobel Prize
Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, the commander of a sound reconnaissance battery, who rose to the rank of captain during the war years and was awarded two military orders, was arrested in 1945 by front-line counterintelligence for anti-Sovietism. Sentence - 8 years in camps and life exile. He went through a camp in New Jerusalem near Moscow, Marfinskaya "sharashka" and the Special Ekibastuz camp in Kazakhstan. In 1956, Solzhenitsyn was rehabilitated, and since 1964 Alexander Solzhenitsyn devoted himself to literature. At the same time he worked immediately on 4 major works: "The Gulag Archipelago", " cancer corps”, “Red Wheel” and “In the first circle”. In the USSR in 1964 they published the story "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", and in 1966 the story "Zakhar-Kalita".
On October 8, 1970, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize "for the moral strength gleaned from the tradition of great Russian literature." This was the reason for the persecution of Solzhenitsyn in the USSR. In 1971, all the writer's manuscripts were confiscated, and in the next 2 years, all his publications were destroyed. In 1974, the Decree of the Presidium Supreme Council USSR, which for the systematic commission of actions incompatible with belonging to the citizenship of the USSR and damaging the USSR, ”Alexander Solzhenitsyn was deprived of Soviet citizenship and deported from the USSR.
Citizenship was returned to the writer only in 1990, and in 1994 he and his family returned to Russia and became actively involved in public life.
Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky in Russia was convicted of parasitism
Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky began to write poetry at the age of 16. Anna Akhmatova predicted for him a hard life and a glorious creative destiny. In 1964, in Leningrad, a criminal case was opened against the poet on charges of parasitism. He was arrested and sent into exile in the Arkhangelsk region, where he spent a year.
In 1972, Brodsky turned to Secretary General Brezhnev with a request to work in his homeland as a translator, but his request remained unanswered, and he was forced to emigrate. Brodsky first lives in Vienna, London, and then moves to the United States, where he becomes a professor at New York, Michigan and other universities in the country.
On December 10, 1987, Joseph Brosky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his comprehensive work, saturated with the clarity of thought and the passion of poetry." It is worth saying that Brodsky, after Vladimir Nabokov, is the second Russian writer who writes in English as his native language.
The sea was not visible. In the white mist
swaddled on all sides of us, absurd
it was thought that the ship was going to land -
if it was a ship at all,
and not a clot of fog, as if poured
who whitened in milk.
(B. Brodsky, 1972)
Interesting fact
They were nominated for the Nobel Prize at various times, but never received it, such famous people like Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt, Nicholas Roerich and Leo Tolstoy.
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Thousands of literary awards are held annually around the world. Millions of applications are submitted to participate in them. The awards are held on a national and global scale, in different categories: children's literature, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, science fiction and fantasy.
1969 to 2001 this award was known as the Booker Prize. Since 2005, the Man Group has been the main sponsor of the award and the award has been renamed the Man Booker Prize. The award is presented every two years. Initially, the Booker Prize only accepted entries from the Commonwealth, Zimbabwe and Ireland. But since 2014, the award has acquired international status, which made it possible to expand the list of participants - a writer from any country whose novel is written in English can become a nominee. You can only become a laureate once. The cash prize is 60 thousand pounds sterling. International Prize has a separate award for the translation of the novel. Since 2016, the Booker Prize has been awarded for translation fiction novel, with the winning author and translator receiving £50,000.
The man credited with founding the Pulitzer Prize was Joseph Pulitzer, a respected journalist from a wealthy family who lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The award is given for work in the field of music, literature and journalism, while it is taken into account in the Internet space and print media - newspapers and magazines. The Pulitzer Prize is administered by Columbia University and is awarded in 21 categories. The winners of 20 categories are awarded a certificate and $15,000. Golden medal awarded to one winner by the department public service journalism competition. Pulitzer Prize for art book was founded in 1918. The first recipient of the award was Ernest Poole. He received an award for his novel "His Family".
Another prestigious literary award, the Neustadt Prize, originated in the United States in 1969. Its original name was "International Prize foreign literature” she received from her founder - editor foreign books Ivara Ivaska. The award changed its name in 1976 and was named after the new sponsors, Walter and Doris Neustadt of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Since that time, the University of Oklahoma has been a permanent sponsor of the award. The winner of the award receives a certificate, an award in the form of a silver eagle feather and $50,000. The award is given for outstanding work in the field of drama, poetry and fiction.
The award was established in 1971 under the name of the Whitbread Prize. In 2006, Costa Coffee became the official sponsor of the award, which led to its renaming to the Costa award. Applicants can be authors from the UK and Ireland, whose works are written in English. The award recognizes not only brilliant and outstanding works in the field of literature, but also books that bring pleasure to reading. Promoting reading as an enjoyable pastime is one of the main goals of the award. The award is given in the following categories: Biography, Novel, Children's Literature, Best First Novel and Poetry. The winners receive £5,000 each.
The American Prize for Literature was introduced in 1994. It is awarded to authors who have contributed to the field international letter. In part, the prize was created as an alternative to the famous Nobel Prize in Literature. The award is sponsored by educational project contemporary art. The award itself was founded in memory of Anna Farney. Every year, 6 to 8 jury members, including prominent American literary critics, playwrights, poets and writers, gather to determine the winner. The laureate does not receive any monetary prize for the victory.
This award is one of the most coveted literary awards in the United Kingdom. original name- Literary Prize "Orange". The award is presented annually to a female author, regardless of nationality, for an outstanding full-length novel published in the UK in the past year in English. In 1991, the Booker Prize marked the beginning of the Women's Prize for Fiction because the committee did not include women on its list of nominees. After that, a group of men and women working in the literary industry met and considered further actions. The winner of the award receives 30,000 British pounds and a bronze statuette.
The Hugo Award is named after Hugo Gernsbeck, the man behind the science fiction magazine " Amazing Stories". The award is given for best work, published in the past year and written in the genres science fiction or fantasy. The Hugo Award is sponsored by the World Science Fiction Society.
The award has been presented at the annual World Science Fiction Convention since 1953 in several categories, including: Best Short Novel, Best Graphic Story, Best Fanzine, Best professional artist", "Best Fancast", "Best Dramatic Presentation" and " Best Book about fantasy.
The award was established in July 2008 by the University of Warwick. It has no analogues in the world and consists of an interdisciplinary writing competition. Students, alumni and employees of the University of Warwick, as well as employees of the publishing industry, can nominate work for the nomination. Each year for the award is approved new topic. must be written in English.
Every year in Struga, Macedonia, an international poetry festival takes place. The most talented international poets receive the coveted award of the Golden Crown festival. The festival was first held in 1961 with the participation of famous Macedonian poets. A few years later, in 1966, the festival was transformed from a national into an international one. In the same year it was established highest award the Golden Crown award, the first laureate of which was Robert Rozhdestvensky. Over the years of the award, its laureates have become such prominent literary figures as Seamus Haney, Joseph Brodsky and Pablo Neruda.
The Nobel Prize is named after Albert Nobel, a man who made significant contributions in the fields of chemistry, literature, engineering, and entrepreneurship in the 1800s. Already at the age of 17, he was fluent in 5 foreign languages. In his will, Albert Nobel stipulated the conditions for the establishment of the prize and allocated his own money for this. All Nobel Prizes are controlled by different institutions. The Nobel Prize in Literature is administered by the Swedish Academy. The winner receives a medal and a cash prize, the size of which varies from year to year. The Academy determines the people and institutions that may be nominated for the award. I have the right to put forward my candidacy professors of literature and linguistics of higher educational institutions, winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature and members of the Swedish Academy. The Nobel Committee for Literature verifies candidates and passes the collected information to the Swedish Academy. The prize has been awarded since 1901 to writers from different countries.
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The official wording of the Russian Booker is "award for best novel in Russian, published for the first time this year. "The award was established in 1992 by the British Council by analogy with the British Booker. But today the Republic of Belarus is arranged quite differently. For example, in England, 4 Booker finalists subsequently received the Nobel Prize. In Russia, it is tacitly considered that the prize is given to a potential bestseller.How true this statement - time will tell.
Who is giving?
There is a Booker Committee in Russia, which is headed by Igor Shaitanov (Russian critic, literary critic and editor-in-chief of Voprosy Literature), and it was to this committee that the leadership of the prize was transferred. The RB jury changes every year. It includes five people - critics, philologists, writers, and the fifth place is usually taken by a representative of some other art. Initially, there was a panel of nominees, but now publishers and publishers (for example, magazines) can nominate books for the award.
What do they give?
The Russian Booker prize fund this year was $20,000. All other finalists receive $1,000 each. The award is financed within the framework of British Petroleum's charitable program.
What to read?
Laureates of the award in recent years have been Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Mikhail Shishkin, Alexander Ilichevsky, Olga Slavnikova, Elena Chizhova, Mikhail Elizarov and others. The biggest incident happened in 2010, when Elena Kolyadina won the award with the pornographic novel Flower Cross.
Rabbit reviews on the novels of the winners
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One of the largest literary awards in Russia and the CIS. It is given to all genres - from fiction to memoirs and documentaries, which often brings confusion to the shortlists. Both manuscripts and already published works are accepted. Publishing houses, jury, mass media, creative unions and even organs state power and the authors themselves (if the work is published).
Established the award "Center for Support of National Literature", organized by Alfa-Bank, Renova, Mamut, Abramovich, Medved magazine and others. The Board of Trustees of the award, in particular, includes: Stepashin, Shvydkoy, director of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vsevolod Bagno, general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Dobrodeev, chief of Rospechat Seslavinsky, general director of the RSL Fedorov and other characters. And the chairman of the Council is Vladimir Grigoriev, a book-reader and deputy head federal agency press and mass communications.
Who is giving?
The long list is robbed by the Council of Experts. Its permanent chairman is Deputy. editor-in-chief of the magazine New world» Mikhail Butov.
The shortlist is sorted out by the Jury or the Literary Academy. It consists of more than 100 people - professionals from literature, culture, science, art, public figures, journalists, officials and entrepreneurs. Chairmen of the Literary Academy (jury) in different years were: Granin, Radzinsky, Makanin, Bitov, Polyakov, Arkhangelsky and others. The winner is determined by the number of points scored in the voting.
Since 2008, readers have also been able to vote for the finalists.
What do they give?
The prize is considered the second largest after the Nobel Prize in terms of size. prize pool. It is funded by the Center for the Support of Russian Literature, which consists of Russian businessmen and structures.
The winner receives 3 million rubles, the winner of the second prize - 1.5 million rubles, the third prize - 1 million rubles.
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Petersburg Prize, established in 2001 by the publisher (Limbus-Press) and writer Konstantin Tublin. The award is also given for the best novel of the year written in Russian. The motto of the award is “Wake up famous!”.
Who is giving?
The uniqueness of this award is that you can see who nominated whom. Lists of nominees and nominees are posted on the award website (and these lists are almost more interesting than the award itself). The nominees are appointed by the organizing committee and emphasizes that its purpose is to bring together representatives of all tastes and literary schools. It is also interesting that the winner shares his prize with the one who nominated him!
First, each member of the Grand Jury, which is formed from literary critics different directions and never gets together, chooses 2 works from the long. One gets 3 points, the other gets 1 point.
Of those who scored the most points, a short list is formed.
And then the Small Jury, which may already consist of anyone ("enlightened readers"), makes its choice. Moreover, the right to break a draw is given to the Honorary Chairman (therefore, for example, with the help of Ksenia Sobchak in 2011, Bykov's passing novel won the prize, and not the most witty work of Figl-Migl).
By the way, the winner becomes a member of the Small Jury next year.
What do they give?
The winner receives 10,000 dollars, which, as we have already said, is divided in a 7:3 ratio between him and the nominee. The remaining finalists receive $1,000 each. By the way, an interesting fact - the prize will be given to the author only if he is present at the award ceremony. That is, in St. Petersburg on the last Friday of May.
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The youngest award. Established in 2009 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation "to identify and support new trends in modern fiction in Russian". It appeared on this list and took off due to the fact that it attracts bright critics and literary figures to its ranks. And also because it differs sharply from all other awards in the openness of the voting process - the jury members publicly argue their choice in the framework of open debates .
Who is giving?
The long list is selected by the Expert Council of three people, and the winner is selected by a jury of 4 people and the Chairman, who has, as it were, 2 votes. And the jury and experts, in turn, are selected by the Board of Trustees of the Prize. It can be writers, critics and other cultural and public figures of any country. The main thing is that they speak Russian and know our lit. context. In the final debate, experts can express their point of view and even give 1 vote to one of the nominees (if all three made the same choice).
By the way, readers can also vote.
What do they give?
As it is already clear, it is financed by the NOS by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. The winner receives 700,000 rubles, the winner of the reader's vote - 200,000 rubles, and each finalist - 40,000 rubles.
What to read?
There are very few winners, so you can list them all. Since 2009, respectively: Lena Eltang with the novel Stone Maples, Vladimir Sorokin with the story Snowstorm, Igor Vishnevetsky with the story Leningrad, Lev Rubinstein with the book Signs of Attention.
The Internet, in turn, chose: “Sugar Kremlin” by Sorokin, “Antre. The Story of a Collection” by Sofia Veshnevskaya, “Skunkcamera” by Andrey Astvatsaturov and “ Young years Nurse Parovozov" by Alexei Motorov.
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The Andrei Bely Prize has always stood apart. First, she is almost 35 years old. Secondly, it is non-state, and has never been like that. In the USSR, this was the only regular dissident award in the field of culture. Thirdly, it was founded by a samizdat magazine. The fate and significance of samizdat in Soviet times hard to overestimate.
In 1997, when it got "warmer", the prize began to be supported by the Anna Akhmatova Museum, the New Literary Review and the A-Ya Contemporary Art Society. Now among the supporters are named: "Ivan Limbakh Publishing House" and "Amphora".
Today, the prize is awarded in 4 categories: poetry, prose, humanitarian research and for special merits in the development of Russian literature. Among the award criteria are experiment and innovation. The award can only be received once.
Who is giving?
Prize winners, members of the Committee and members of the Advisory Board of the Prize may submit papers. Moreover, it can be works published in the last three years.
The committee that decides to whom to give the award consists of three parts. The first one is the founders of the award Boris Ivanov and Boris Ostanin. The second - three permanent members of the Committee, invited by the founders. And the third - four temporary juries for a year. All names can be found at
