Vladimir Makanin became a laureate in the category "Modern classic" for the book "Where the sky converged with the hills", receiving a cash prize of 1,500,000 rubles.
In nomination "XXI Century" For the first time in the history of the award, the jury chose two laureates: Narine Abgaryan for the story "Three apples fell from the sky" and Alexandra Grigorenko for the story "The blind man lost his pipe." The winners shared the cash prize: each received 1,000,000 rubles.
The prize fund of the short list of this nomination, amounting to 1,000,000 rubles, will be evenly distributed among the finalists who did not become laureates in the 21st century nomination:
- Aflatuni Sukhbat Adoration of the Magi. – M.: Ripol Classic, 2015
- Minaev Boris "Soft tissue". - M.: Time, 2016
- Eisner Vladimir "Pomegranate Island". - St. Petersburg: "Written with a pen", 2015
- Yuzefovich Leonid "Winter road". - M .: Journal "October", No. 4, 5, 6, 2015
Marina Nefedova became a laureate in the category "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth" for the book "The Forester and His Nymph", having received a cash prize of 500,000 rubles.
The finalists of this nomination shared 300,000 rubles among themselves:
- Moskvina Marina, Govorova Julia "You, most importantly, write about love." – M.: Gayatri, 2016.
- Yulia Yakovleva "Children of the Raven". – M.: Samokat, 2016
nomination winner "Foreign literature", designed to select the most significant foreign book of the 21st century and celebrate its translation into Russian, became Orhan Pamuk for the book "My Strange Thoughts", which received a prize of 1,000,000 rubles. Laureate book translator, Apollinaria Avrutina, became the owner of an award in the amount of 200,000 rubles.
The long list of the category "Foreign Literature" can be considered a guide to world literature
Experts in the nomination "Foreign Literature" - translators, publishers of foreign literature, journalists and literary critics offered books on foreign language which are considered the most important, and the members of the jury of the award chose the laureate. The list of books included in the long list of the Foreign Literature category was announced in March 2016.
A special Samsung Readers' Choice Award was also presented. The winner of the prize - trips to South Korea for two - became Narine Abgaryan, the author of the story "Three apples fell from the sky", a work from the short list of the nomination "XXI century", which scored the largest number votes based on the results of an open reader's Internet voting on the LiveLib.ru service.
"Behind literary prize"Yasnaya Polyana" - fourteen years. The laureates of previous years are remarkable: we are not ashamed of any of them, but there has never been such a choice as this year in the entire history of the award. All authors deserve to become laureates, and the long list of the “Foreign Literature” nomination can be considered a guide to world literature and taken as a landmark,” said Vladimir Tolstoy, chairman of the jury of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on culture.
“It is not only the opinion of a highly professional jury that makes the award truly popular. I am very grateful to our partners - Samsung Electronics - for the fact that for the second year the special prize "Readers' Choice" has been awarded. This year the opinion of the readers coincided with the opinion of the jury. Users of the LiveLib.ru website chose the novel “Three Apples Fell From the Sky” by Narine Abgaryan,” explained Ekaterina Tolstaya, director of the Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy.
The prize is awarded to writers whose works carry the moral ideals of Russian classical literature
“There are such books when reading which you forget that you are a member of the jury, you don’t remember about short and long lists - in general you forget about everything and just thank the author for leading you into some kind of wonderful world”, - said Alexei Varlamov, jury member of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award, prose writer, researcher of Russian literature of the twentieth century.
“For 14 years now, the Yasnaya Polyana Prize has been celebrating the works of talented promising authors and real classics of our time. We are proud that, by supporting it, from year to year we contribute to the development of great literary traditions in the context of today's Russia. In addition, we are pleased to open new masterpieces to readers, which, I am sure, will rightfully take their place in the rich cultural heritage our country. I congratulate the winners and prize-winners of 2016 and wish them new creative success,” said Kim Yi Tak, President of Samsung Electronics CIS Headquarters.
About the award
The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize was established by the Leo Tolstoy Estate Museum and Samsung Electronics in 2003. Every year the prize is awarded to writers whose works carry the humanistic and moral ideals of Russian classical literature. The award jury selects the best works of art traditional form in the categories "Modern Classics", "XXI Century" and "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth”, as well as in the categories “Foreign Literature” and “Readers' Choice”, introduced with the support of Samsung in 2015. Award winners in various categories in different time became Anton Utkin, Alexei Ivanov, Zakhar Prilepin, Vasily Golovanov, Mikhail Tarkovsky, Elena Katishonok, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Roman Senchin, Fazil Iskander, Valentin Rasputin, Yuri Bondarev.
The total amount of the bonus fund is 7 million rubles. On this moment This is the largest annual literary award in Russia.
The partners of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize are the central state information Agency Russia TASS, the Livelib.ru recommendation service, on the site of which Internet voting is carried out, as well as the federal network bookstores"Read-city".
More information is available at website premiums.
On November 2, the ceremony of awarding the laureates of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize took place in Moscow.
The winner in the nomination "Modern Classics" was Vladimir Makanin for the book "Where the sky converged with the hills" (prize 1,500,000 rubles).
In the nomination "XXI century" for the first time the jury chose two laureates: Narine Abgaryan for the story "Three apples fell from the sky" and Alexandra Grigorenko for the story "I lost a blind pipe" (each of them received 1,000,000 rubles).
The prize fund of the short list of this nomination (1,000,000 rubles) is distributed among the rest of the finalists. This - Sukhbat Aflatuni("The Adoration of the Magi") Boris Minaev("Soft tissue"), Vladimir Eisner("Pomegranate Island") and Leonid Yuzefovich("Winter road").
In "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth” became the laureate Marina Nefedova for the book "The Forester and His Nymph" (prize 500,000 rubles).
Finalists in this category - Marina Moskvina, Yulia Govorova(“You, most importantly, write about love”) and Julia Yakovleva("Children of the Raven") - divided among themselves 300,000 rubles.
The winner in the nomination "Foreign Literature", designed to select the most significant work of a foreign author and to mark its translation into Russian, was Orhan Pamuk for the book "My Strange Thoughts" (prize 1,000,000 rubles). Her translator Apollinaria Avrutina received a prize of 200,000 rubles. It should be noted that the experts of this nomination - translators, publishers, journalists and literary critics - proposed books that they consider the most important (the long list was announced in March of this year, the short list is not selected), and the jury members, in turn, chose the laureate .
There was also a special prize "Readers' Choice" - a trip to South Korea for two. Its owner was Narine Abgaryan, author of the story "Three apples fell from the sky." This work from the short list of the nomination "XXI century" gained the largest number of votes according to the results of an open reader's Internet voting on the recommendation service LiveLib.ru.
“Behind the shoulders of the Yasnaya Polyana literary prize is fourteen years,” noted Vladimir Tolstoy, Chairman of the Prize Jury, Cultural Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation .- Already a whole story. The laureates of previous years are remarkable - we are not ashamed of any of them. However, there has never been such a choice as this year in the entire history of the award. All authors deserve to become laureates, and the long list of the Foreign Literature nomination can be considered a guide to world literature and taken as a guide.”
According to member of the jury, writer and researcher of Russian literature of the twentieth century Alexei Varlamov , “there are such books, reading which you forget that you are a member of the jury, you forget about short and long lists, you forget that summer is around, you forget about everything and just thank the author for leading you into some wonderful world ".
“It is not only the opinion of a highly professional jury that makes the award truly popular,” said Director of the Yasnaya Polyana Estate Museum Ekaterina Tolstaya .- I am very grateful to our partners - Samsung Electronics - for the fact that for the second year in a row the special prize "Readers' Choice" has been awarded. In this, the opinion of the readers coincided with the opinion of the jury. Users of the site LiveLib.ru chose the novel “Three Apples Fell From the Sky” by Narine Abgaryan.”
Recall: the largest annual literary award in Russia "Yasnaya Polyana" was established by the museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy and Samsung Electronics in 2003. It is awarded to writers whose works carry the humanistic and moral ideals of Russian classical literature. The jury selects the best works of art in the traditional form in the categories "Modern Classics", "XXI Century" and "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth”, as well as in the categories “Foreign Literature” and “Readers' Choice”, introduced last year. The total amount of the bonus fund is seven million rubles.
Vladimir Makanin became a laureate in the category "Modern classic» per book "Where the sky converged with the hills", having received a cash prize in the amount of 1,500,000 rubles.
In nomination "XXI Century" For the first time in the history of the award, the jury chose two laureates: Narine Abgaryan for the story Three apples fell from the sky And Alexander Grigorenko for the story "Lost the blind pipe". The winners shared the cash prize and each received 1,000,000 rubles. The prize fund of the short list of this nomination, amounting to 1,000,000 rubles, will be evenly distributed among the finalists who did not become laureates in the 21st century nomination:
- Aflatuni Sukhbat. Adoration of the Magi. - M.: Ripol Classic, 2015
- Minaev Boris. Soft fabric. - M.: Time, 2016
- Eisner Vladimir. Pomegranate Island. - St. Petersburg: "Written with a pen", 2015
- Yuzefovich Leonid. Winter road. - M.: Magazine "October", No. 4, 5, 6, 2015
Marina Nefedova became a laureate in the category "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth" for the book "Forester and his nymph", receiving a cash prize of 500,000 rubles. The finalists of this nomination shared 300,000 rubles among themselves.
- Moskvina Marina, Govorova Julia. You, most importantly, write about love. - M.: Gayatri, 2016.
- Yakovleva Julia. Raven children. - M.: Samokat, 2016
nomination winner "Foreign literature", designed to select the most significant foreign book of the 21st century and celebrate its translation into Russian, became Orhan Pamuk for the book "My Strange Thoughts", who received a prize of 1,000,000 rubles. Laureate book translator, Apollinaria Avrutina, became the owner of an award in the amount of 200,000 rubles.
The experts of the "Foreign Literature" nomination are translators, publishers of foreign literature, journalists and literary critics - they proposed books that they consider the most important books in a foreign language, and the award jury members chose the winner. The list of books included in the long list of the Foreign Literature category was announced in March 2016. In this nomination short list not selected.
Was also awarded Samsung Special Prize Readers' Choice. The winner of the prize - a trip to South Korea for two - was Narine Abgaryan, the author of the story "Three Apples Fell From the Sky" - works from the short list of the "XXI Century" nomination, which received the largest number of votes according to the results of an open reader's Internet voting on the recommendation service LiveLib.ru.
Alexey Varlamov about Narine Abgaryan, laureate of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize in the 21st century nomination for 2016
There are such books when reading which you forget that you are a member of the jury, about short and long lists, you forget that summer is around - you generally forget about everything and are simply grateful to the author for leading you into some wonderful world. It was with this feeling that I read Narine Abgaryan's book "Three Apples Fell From the Sky". The action of the book takes place in a remote mountainous Armenian village, which, of course, has a history, but it is completely different from the history of large countries - this history is private, local.
Vladislav Otroshenko about Alexander Grigorenko, laureate of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize in the 21st century nomination for 2016
This is a story about a Siberian village family, where a long-awaited child is born - deaf, with paralysis ... At the center of this story is this boy Shurka, half holy fool, half blessed. Everyone wants to love and love him, but his whole life goes to ruin ... The story surprisingly answers two main questions: what to do and who is to blame? Do nothing and no one is to blame - such is the nature of Russian life.
Sometimes in a novel, even in a good novel, there are gaps, emptiness. The story has the ability to keep the mark of narration from the first word to the last. Grigorenko's story is poignant.
Valentin Kurbatov about Marina Nefedeva, laureate of the Yasnaya Polyana award in the Childhood. Adolescence. Youth” for 2016
Reading the book by Marina Nefedova “The Forester and His Nymph”, you understand how much grief Russian literature takes upon itself. And you believe that writing is salvation baby heart through the experience and living of grief. You have to endure childhood suffering to write such a book.
Evgeny Vodolazkin about Vladimir Makanin, laureate of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize in the Modern Classics nomination
The story is a tool that can sometimes express more than a novel. The writer we're honoring today in the Modern Classics category is no stretch great writer. The story of Vladimir Makanin "Where the sky converged with the hills" is a great literature.
Letter from Vladimir Makanin in response to receiving the Yasnaya Polyana Prize
“Eighty years is a milestone. Words and thoughts are still in abundance, but there is almost no strength and health left to give them life. There is little positive in the existence of an old sick person, his destiny is seclusion, and what they remembered about me is a light and joy. I am grateful to Vladimir Tolstoy and all members of the Yasnaya Polyana jury for their attention, and I congratulate my colleagues on the award.”
Alexey Varlamov about Orkhan Pamuk, the winner of the nomination “Foreign Literature” for 2016
The polyphonic narration of Orkhan Pamuk's novel “My Strange Thoughts”, composed of different meanings, gives voice to many heroes. This is a large, leisurely book, clearly not written in pursuit of success. This is a declaration of love to his native city, Istanbul. Pamuk measured himself down to the little man who is the protagonist of this novel. It reminds me of One Hundred Years of Solitude. This is a long saga that is connected with a distant place that becomes close.
When I read this book, I forgot that it was not originally written in Russian. A painstaking subtle translation with an amazing melodious intonation is the work and merit of Apollinaria Avrutina.
Orkhan Pamuk's letter in response to receiving the Yasnaya Polyana Prize
For me, this award is an award on behalf of all great Russian literature. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov… The very sound of these names is like a poem for me, like music. Not only I am alone - all Turkish literature has learned a lot from the Russian classics.
Due to lectures at Columbia University, I will not be able to take part in the awards ceremony, which will be held at the Bolshoi Theater. However, in February I will come to Yasnaya Polyana to receive the award. When I was twenty-five years old and writing my first novel, reading Tolstoy, I dreamed that one day I would go to Moscow, from there to Yasnaya Polyana, where I would see Tolstoy's house. Forty years later my dreams are coming true and I am very excited about going there.
MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. For the first time in the history of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize, the jury chose two winners in main nomination"XXI Century". The laureates in 2016 were Narine Abgaryan with the story "Three Apples Fell from the Sky" and Alexander Grigorenko with the story "The Blind Man Lost his Pipe". This was stated on Wednesday at the award ceremony by the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy.
“It looks like we have two envelopes. In one of them, the name Narine Abgaryan “Three apples fell from the sky”, and in the other - Alexander Grigorenko “I lost my blind pipe,” Shvydkoy announced.
Abgaryan and Grigorenko will receive one million rubles each as a cash bonus.
Presenting Abgaryan's book, a member of the jury, literary critic Alexei Varlamov noted its extraordinary magnetism.
"There are such books, when reading which, you forget that you are a member of the jury, about short and long lists, you forget that it's summer around - you generally forget about everything and are simply grateful to the author for leading you into some kind of wonderful world. Exactly with such a feeling I read the book by Narine Abgaryan "Three apples fell from the sky. The action of the book takes place in a remote mountainous Armenian village, which, of course, has a history, but it is completely different from the history of large countries - this story is private, local," shared with his impressions.
Writer Vladislav Otroshenko named "extraordinary poignancy" among the merits of Grigorenko's story.
"Grigorenko's story tells about a Siberian family where a long-awaited child is born - Shurka, but he is born with paralysis, half-foolish, dies with all the family's love for him, because life is so arranged. This story responds to eternal questions: what to do and who is to blame? Do nothing and no one is to blame - such is the nature of Russian life," he said.
The finalists of the nomination "XXI century" this year were Leonid Yuzefovich with the story "The Winter Road", Vladimir Eisner with the novel "Pomegranate Island", Boris Minaev with the novel "Soft Fabric" and Aflatuni Sukhbat with the novel "The Adoration of the Magi". They will share one million rubles among themselves.
Other nominations
Chairman of the jury of the competition, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on culture Vladimir Tolstoy, opening the ceremony, noted high level works submitted this year to the competition. "There has never been such an agonizing choice as this year in the entire history of the award. All works from short lists deserve to be laureates," he stressed.
In the nomination "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth" Marina Nefedova became the laureate with her book "The Forester and His Nymph". She will receive 500 thousand rubles.
“Literature related to teenagers and children is read less and is considered niche. But the Yasnaya Polyana Prize created this nomination, and this is an important readership,” Nefedova emphasized.
The shortlist was compiled by Marina Moskvina, Julia Govorova "You, most importantly, write about love", Yulia Yakovleva "Children of the Raven". The finalists will share 300 thousand rubles among themselves.
The winner in the nomination "Foreign Literature" was Orhan Pamuk for the book "My Strange Thoughts". The Turkish writer will receive a prize of one million rubles. The translator of the laureate's book, Apollinaria Avrutina, won a prize of 200,000 rubles.
A special Samsung Readers' Choice Award was also awarded. The winner of the prize - a trip to South Korea for two - was Narine Abgaryan, the author of the story "Three Apples Fell From the Sky" - the work that received the most votes according to the results of an open reader's online voting on the recommendation service LiveLib.ru.
About the award
Literary award "Yasnaya Polyana" was created museum-estate L. N. Tolstoy and Samsung Electronics in 2003. In 2015, the total amount of the bonus fund increased significantly and now stands at RUB 7 million.
Every year the prize is awarded to writers whose works carry the humanistic and moral ideals of Russian classical literature. The award jury selects the best works of traditional form in the categories "Modern Classics", "XXI century" and "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth", as well as in the categories "Foreign Literature" and "Readers' Choice", introduced with the support of Samsung in 2015.
The jury of the award includes literary critic Lev Anninsky, writer and critic Pavel Basinsky, writer, Doctor of Philology Yevgeny Vodolazkin, researcher of Russian literature of the 20th century Alexei Varlamov, critic Valentin Kurbatov, writer and essayist Vladislav Otroshenko.
Vladimir Makanin became a laureate in the category "Modern classic" for the book "Where the sky converged with the hills", receiving a cash prize of 1,500,000 rubles.
In nomination "XXI Century" For the first time in the history of the award, the jury chose two laureates: Narine Abgaryan for the story "Three apples fell from the sky" and Alexandra Grigorenko for the story "The blind man lost his pipe." The winners shared the cash prize, and each received 1,000,000 rubles.
The prize fund of the short list of this nomination, amounting to 1,000,000 rubles, will be evenly distributed among the finalists who did not become laureates in the 21st century nomination:
- Aflatuni Sukhbat. Adoration of the Magi. – M.: Ripol Classic, 2015
- Minaev Boris. Soft fabric. - M.: Time, 2016
- Eisner Vladimir. Pomegranate Island. - St. Petersburg: "Written with a pen", 2015
- Yuzefovich Leonid. Winter road. - M .: Journal "October", No. 4, 5, 6, 2015
Marina Nefedova became a laureate in the category "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth" for the book "The Forester and His Nymph", having received a cash prize of 500,000 rubles.
The finalists of this nomination shared 300,000 rubles among themselves:
- Moskvina Marina, Govorova Julia. You, most importantly, write about love. – M.: Gayatri, 2016.
- Yakovleva Julia. Raven children. – M.: Samokat, 2016
nomination winner "Foreign literature", designed to select the most significant foreign book of the 21st century and celebrate its translation into Russian, became Orhan Pamuk for the book "My Strange Thoughts", which received a prize of 1,000,000 rubles. Laureate book translator, Apollinaria Avrutina, became the owner of an award in the amount of 200,000 rubles.
The experts in the category "Foreign Literature" are translators, publishers of foreign literature, journalists and literary critics - they proposed books that they consider the most important books in a foreign language, and the award jury members chose the winner. The list of books included in the long list of the Foreign Literature category was announced in March 2016. There is no short list in this nomination.
Was also awarded Samsung Special Prize Readers' Choice. The winner of the prize - a trip to South Korea for two - was Narine Abgaryan, author of the story Three apples fell from the sky- works from the short list of the nomination "XXI century", which received the largest number of votes according to the results of an open reader's Internet voting on the recommendation service LiveLib.ru.
The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize was established by the L. N. Tolstoy Estate Museum and Samsung Electronics in 2003. Every year the prize is awarded to writers whose works carry the humanistic and moral ideals of Russian classical literature. The jury of the award selects the best works of art of the traditional form in the categories "Modern Classics", "XXI Century" and "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth”, as well as in the categories “Foreign Literature” and “Readers' Choice”, introduced with the support of Samsung in 2015. The total amount of the bonus fund is 7 million rubles.
At the moment, this is the largest annual literary award in Russia.
The partners of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize are: the central state news agency of Russia TASS, the recommendation service Livelib.ru, on the site of which Internet voting is carried out, as well as the federal chain of bookstores Chitay-Gorod.
