Gorky literary award long list. Among the winners of the Gorky Prize - "the new Chekhov

April 04, 2017 at the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications at the address: Moscow, st. Vozdvizhenka, 9, the 12th solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the Gorky Literary Prize-2017 will take place.

The event starts at 18:30.

Gorky literary prize exists since 2005. Award founders: Literary Education Publishing House, Russian Cultural Foundation, Interregional public fund Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications.

Purpose of the Prize- support for authors whose works are based on the best traditions and values ​​of Russian classical literature, high level knowledge of the Russian language with the greatest completeness and artistry reflects the processes taking place in the country and in society.
This year, the founders and organizers of the award set themselves the task of collecting in the competitive process life-affirming works that make up for the literary deficit of bright emotions.

The entries for the competition were accepted in two formats:

The long list includes 76 works. 8 authors were selected for the shortlist.
At the first stage, the selection of works was carried out by the organizing committee of the award and moderators of the Bookscriptor electronic platform. Then the jury, composed of members of the public association "People's Ministry of Literature", joined the work. Also, when selecting works for the Short List, the popular vote on the Bookscriptor platform was also taken into account.

The establishment of a children's nomination within the framework of the Gorky Literary Prize can also be considered a new undertaking. The first award ceremony for literary gifted children will take place at the Moscow International Salon of Education (VDNKh) on April 15, 2017.

Guests and participants of the evening will be representatives of all spheres literary life, prominent public figures, workers of culture and art. Among those invited: representatives of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, Ministry of Culture Russian Federation, ministries of education and science of the Russian Federation, chief editors of literary media, etc.

Shortlist

ARTEMIEV Alexey (Saransk). "Trees and Birds" - a story.
KLEVTSOV Vladimir (Pskov). "Spring" - a collection of short stories.
OCHERETNY Vladimir (Moscow). "Shortly before nostalgia" - a novel.
PSHENICHNIKOV Vladimir (Orenburg). "Features dashing summer"- a book of prose.
SEROV Alexey (Yaroslavl). The Master is a collection of short stories.
POGOGIY Andrey (Kaluga). "Manuscript" is a novel.
CHERNYSHEV Alexander (Moscow). "Tube" - a story.
YAKOVLEVA Alexandra (Omsk). "Lake Sweetness" - a story.

With more detailed information about the Gorky Literary Prize can be found on the website www.gorky-litpremia.ru

Organizers: Literary Education Publishing House, Russian Cultural Foundation and Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications Foundation

Anyone can submit work.

From the abstract:

This prestigious award is given annually to contemporary authors in various categories. Today, according to the not indifferent cultural community, there is a lack of serious, solid literature that respects the reader, close to him in spirit and perception of reality. The audience missed high-quality, original and interesting works inspiring optimism. Therefore, the organizers of the Prize set the task of helping authors find their audience, and readers their own literature.

This year, poetry and prose realistic works of small and medium forms, telling about life, are accepted for the competition. ordinary people. Mandatory requirement: the narration should be kind and life-affirming.

The terms of participation:

• Prose, poetry and works created by children are nominated for the award.
• A book can be nominated by the author or the representative of the author with his consent.
• If the nominee is under 18 years of age, a representative, preferably a parent, will act on their behalf.
• The number of books nominated by one author is not limited.

The online publishing house Bookscriptor has become the official Internet platform for the Gorky Literary Prize this year. After the publication of the book on the site, any author can automatically nominate his work for the award.

The award ceremony will take place in Moscow at the end of March, during the celebration of Maxim Gorky's birthday.

• Prize fund — 500 thousand rubles
• Possibility to contract with periodical with a circulation of 750,000 copies

Portal Year of Literature, April 4 at the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications hosted the 12th ceremony of the Gorky Literary Prize, which in 2017 was held under the motto "Not a million for a writer, but a writer for millions" and according to updated rules.

So, thanks to the integration with the Bookscriptor publishing platform (created a little less than two years ago publishing house"Literary Study") the award "went to the people."

For the first time, not only works published on paper were accepted for the competition, but also manuscripts published using a publishing platform on the Web. Authors themselves can nominate books. The names of the jury members were not disclosed. However, as well as the names of the participants. When forming the long list, the jury focused only on the texts, which were accompanied by the notes "Nominee No."

Also this season, the founders and organizers of the award set themselves the task of collecting in the competitive process life-affirming works that fill the literary deficit of bright emotions and tell about the life of ordinary people.

In total, 596 applications were submitted for the competition, 76 authors entered the long list, 8 of which made it to the final and got into the short list. All finalists received awards. So, five prose writers from different regions of Russia (from Moscow, Kaluga, Omsk and Saransk) became diploma winners and received certificates for a monetary reward of 20 thousand rubles and for printing paper copies of their books.

Diploma winners of the Gorky Prize in 2017 are: Alexey Artemiev for the story "Trees and Birds" Vladimir Ocheretny for the novel "Shortly before Nostalgia", Andrey Ubogiy for the novel "Manuscript" Alexander Chernyshev for the story "Tubik" and Alexandra Yakovleva for the story "Lake Sweetness".

The winners of the award were named: Pskov writer Vladimir Klevtsov for the collection of short stories "Rodnik", from Orenburg Vladimir Pshenichnikov for the collection of prose "Features of a dashing summer" and an author from Yaroslavl Alexey Serov for "narrative in stories under the general title ''The Master''".

“Now there stood a man of Chekhov’s level, a man who can modestly be called a genius.” , - handing the award to Vladimir Klevtsov, noted the chairman of the organizing committee of the Gorky Prize, the editor-in-chief of the Literary Study Publishing House Lev Pirogov.

All laureates were awarded with diplomas, commemorative medals with the profile of Maxim Gorky, certificates for a monetary reward in the amount of 100,000 rubles, and author's copies of their books.

By the way, in his speech, Lev Pirogov noted that in this premium season it all started with the question of what is missing in modern Russian literature, and the obvious answer is readers.

“A year ago, we thought about what modern Russian literature does not have, and we became the first award in the country in terms of the scale of the readership” - said Pirogov. Thus, thanks to the partnership with the Moya Semya newspaper, the works of the 2017 Gorky Prize winners will be published in a circulation of 750,000 copies on the pages of the partner publication.

REFERENCE

The Gorky Literary Prize was established by the Literary Education Publishing House, the Russian Cultural Foundation and the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications Foundation and has been held in Russia since 2005. IN different years the jury of the award was attended by critic and literary critic Valentin Kurbatov, TV presenter and director Alexander Gordon, rector of the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky writer Alexei Varlamov, writer, critic, laureate of the " Big Book» Pavel Basinsky, Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers, President of the Russian Cultural Foundation Nikita Mikhalkov. Among the winners - famous writers and poets: Vladimir Orlov, Pyotr Palievsky, Vladimir Bondarenko, Yuri Petkevich, Roman Senchin, Konstantin Vanshenkin, Alisa Ganieva and others.

The purpose of the award is to support authors whose works, based on the best traditions and values ​​of Russian classical literature, a high level of knowledge of the Russian language, reflect the processes taking place in the country and in society with the greatest completeness and artistry, and whose work is beyond the scope of commercial publications.

On April 4, the 12th solemn ceremony of presenting the Gorky Literary Prize-2017 took place at the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications

The Gorky Literary Prize has existed since 2005. Today, the founders and organizers of the award are the Interregional Public Foundation "Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications" and the Publishing House "Literary Education".

The purpose of the Award is to support authors whose works, based on the best traditions and values ​​of Russian classical literature, a high level of knowledge of the Russian language, reflect the processes taking place in the country and in society with the greatest completeness and artistry.

This year, the founders and organizers of the award set themselves the task of collecting in the competitive process life-affirming works that make up for the literary deficit of bright emotions.

For the first time, the competition accepted works published not only in the form of paper books or published on magazine pages, but also in the form e-books, self-published by the authors using the literary medium innovative project Bookscriptor, created a little less than two years ago by the Literary Study Publishing House.

A total of 596 works were submitted for the competition. The long list included 76 authors, 8 of them made it to the final and got into the short list.

At the first stage, the selection of works was carried out by the organizing committee of the Prize and moderators of the Publishing House "LUCH". Then the jury, composed of members of the public association "People's Ministry of Literature", joined the work. Also, when selecting works for the Short List, the popular vote on the website www.bookscriptor.ru was taken into account.

For the first time in the history of the Gorky Literary Prize, there were practically no professional writers on the jury.

Five prose writers from different regions of Russia became Prize winners and, in addition to the diploma, received valuable gifts, a certificate for a monetary reward in the amount of 20,000 (twenty thousand) rubles, as well as a certificate for printing paper copies of their winning books.

The guests and participants of the evening were representatives of all spheres of literary life, prominent public figures, figures of culture and art. Among the invitees: representatives of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, chief editors of literary media, etc.

The ceremony of presenting the Gorky Literary Prize 2017 took place in Moscow

On April 4, the 12th Gorky Literary Prize ceremony took place at the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications, which in 2017 was held under the motto "Not a million for a writer, but a writer for millions" and according to updated rules. So, thanks to the merger with the Bookscriptor publishing platform (created a little less than two years ago by the Publishing House), the award "went to the people."

For the first time, not only works published on paper were accepted for the competition, but also manuscripts published using a publishing platform on the Web. Authors themselves can nominate books. The names of the jury members were not disclosed. However, as well as the names of the participants. When forming the long list, the jury focused only on the texts, which were accompanied by the notes "Nominee No."

Also this season, the founders and organizers of the award set themselves the task of collecting in the competitive process life-affirming works that fill the literary deficit of bright emotions and tell about the life of ordinary people.

In total, 596 applications were submitted for the competition, 76 authors entered the long list, 8 of which made it to the final and got into the short list. All finalists received awards. So, five prose writers from different regions of Russia (from Moscow, Kaluga, Omsk and Saransk) became diploma winners and received certificates for a monetary reward of 20 thousand rubles and for printing paper copies of their books.

Diploma winners of the Gorky Prize in 2017 are: Alexey Artemiev for the story "Trees and Birds" Vladimir Ocheretny for the novel "Shortly before Nostalgia", Andrey Ubogiy for the novel "Manuscript" Alexander Chernyshev for the story "Tubik" and Alexandra Yakovleva for the story "Lake Sweetness".

The winners of the award were named: Pskov writer Vladimir Klevtsov for the collection of short stories "Rodnik", from Orenburg Vladimir Pshenichnikov for the collection of prose "Features of a dashing summer" and an author from Yaroslavl Alexey Serov for "narrative in stories under the general title ''The Master''".

“Now there stood a man of Chekhov’s level, a man who can modestly be called a genius.”, - handing the award to Vladimir Klevtsov, noted the chairman of the organizing committee of the Gorky Prize, the editor-in-chief of the Literary Study Publishing House Lev Pirogov.

All laureates were awarded with diplomas, commemorative medals with the profile of Maxim Gorky, certificates for a monetary reward in the amount of 100,000 rubles, and author's copies of their books.

By the way, in his speech, Lev Pirogov noted that in this premium season it all started with the question of what is missing in modern Russian literature, and the obvious answer is readers.

“A year ago, we thought about what modern Russian literature does not have, and we became the first award in the country in terms of the scale of the readership”- said Pirogov. Thus, thanks to the partnership with the Moya Semya newspaper, the works of the 2017 Gorky Prize winners will be published in a circulation of 750,000 copies on the pages of the partner publication.

REFERENCE
The Gorky Literary Prize was established by the Literary Education Publishing House, the Russian Cultural Foundation and the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications Foundation and has been held in Russia since 2005. Over the years, the jury of the award was attended by critic and literary critic Valentin Kurbatov, TV presenter and director Alexander Gordon, rector of the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky writer, writer, critic, laureate of the Big Book Prize, chairman of the Union of Cinematographers, president of the Russian Cultural Foundation Nikita Mikhalkov. Among the laureates are famous writers and poets: Vladimir Orlov, Petr Palievskiy, Vladimir Bondarenko, Yuri Petkevich, Roman Senchin, Konstantin Vanshenkin, and others.
The purpose of the award is to support authors whose works, based on the best traditions and values ​​of Russian classical literature, a high level of knowledge of the Russian language, reflect the processes taking place in the country and in society with the greatest completeness and artistry, and whose work is beyond the scope of commercial publications.