The award ceremony of the literary Russian Prize was held in Moscow Automatic translate

MOSCOW. On Tuesday, April 21, a solemn ceremony of awarding prizes and diplomas to the winners of the tenth international literary competition “Russian Prize”, created by the Boris Yeltsin Foundation in 2005 in order to celebrate the best works of authors writing in Russian abroad took place. This year, authors from seven countries became winners: Poland, Estonia, Germany, Ukraine, Denmark, Canada and Kyrgyzstan.

So, in the Prose nomination, the best work was the novel Prazhaki by Yuri Serebryansky from Poland. The diploma for the second place was marked by the story “Fly to Heaven” by Vladimir Lidsky from Kyrgyzstan, the jury determined the cycle of stories “Betrayal and Treason” by the author Andriy Krasnyashchi from Ukraine in third place.

The Russian Prize in the Poetry nomination was awarded to Estonian author Jan Kaplinsky for his collection of poems, White Butterflies of the Night. The diploma for the second place was received by the famous Canadian poet Bakhyt Kenzheev, presented in the qualifying lists by the collection "Pre-war. Poems of 2010-2013. " In third place in the poetry contest was the Danish Eugene Klyuyev, who was awarded the prize for the work “Music on the Titanic”

In the nomination “Large prose”, the writer from Germany Aleksey Makushinsky for the novel Steamboat to Argentina became the winner of the award. The author from Germany, Alexander Milshtein, was also identified in second place; he received an award for the novel “Parallel Action”. Third place - the novel "The Parrot in the Bear Den" by Maxim Matkovsky from Ukraine.

The special award “For Contribution to the Development and Preservation of the Traditions of Russian Culture Outside the Russian Federation” was awarded to the publisher of the Fakel magazine Georgy Borisov from Bulgaria.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru