"Russian Prize" announced the long list

Today, March 12, the Organizing Committee of the International Literary Competition "Russian Prize" and the Yeltsin center announced a long list in 2013.

It included works by 35 writers and poets from 14 countries - Azerbaijan, Belarus, Venezuela, Germany, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Serbia, the USA, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Finland.

Nomination "Poetry"
1. Shamshad Abdullaev (Uzbekistan) - “approximation of the outskirts”;
2. Polina Barskova (USA) - "master of the garden";
3. Natalya Belchenko (Ukraine) - "Visorod";
4. Maxim Borodin (Ukraine) - “Poems of a children's psychologist”;
5. Gali-Dana Zinger (Israel)-“a gathering point, a point of disappearance”;
6. Gennady Katsov (USA) - “between the ceiling and the floor”;
7. Inna Kulishova (Georgia) - "from" I "to" az "";
8. Dmitry Lazutkin (Ukraine) - “The best girls go to me”;
9. Nijat Mamedov (Azerbaijan) - “The meeting place is everywhere”;
10. Alexander Petrov (Serbia) - “Fifth side of the world” (poems in Russian from the book of poems and translations);
11. Andrei Polyakov (Ukraine) - “letter”;
12. Mikhail Yudovsky (Germany) - "thousand and one zero."

Nomination "Small prose"
1. Mikhail Aranov (Germany) - the story “Will the pigeons return to the ark”;
2. Sergey Ignatov (Ukraine) - "Stories";
3. Sergey Kryrr (Moldova) - a collection of stories "Mishah";
4. Lyudmila Kol (Finland) - the collection "On the Corner of the Island";
5. Alexander Milstein (Germany) - the story “Draw it white”;
6. Ilya Odegov (Kazakhstan) - a collection of stories "Timur and his summer";
7. Natig Rasulzade (Azerbaijan) - “Stories and the Story”;
8. Alexander Zesin (USA) - “Come back and take”;
9. Leonid Storch (Thailand) - the story "Holiday";
10. Elena Styazhkina (Ukraine) - a story from the cycle "One Talent";
11. Nikolai Fomenko (Ukraine) - a collection of stories "Work";
12. Natalia Chervinskaya (USA) - "Jackson's amendment."

Nomination "Big Prose"
1. Valery Bochkov (USA) - “South of Virginia”;
2. Bakels (Georgia) - "Chronicle of Colchis";
3. Sergey Gerasimov (Ukraine) - "Scholomon Sklyar dance School";
4. Sergey German (Germany) - “doom”;
5. Yana Dubinyanskaya (Ukraine) - “its time”;
6. Vyacheslav Dudar (Ukraine) - “The smell of Gary”;
7. Dmitry Kalmykov (Venezuela) - “Notes of the district teacher P.G. HAPS ";
8. Natalya Kostina (Ukraine) - “Hello, it's me”;
9. Alexey Nikitin (Ukraine) - Victory Park;
10. Alex Tarn (Israel) - “Haim”;
11. Sasha Filippenko (Belarusian) - "Former Son."

For a special prize and diploma “For contribution to the development and conservation of traditions of Russian culture outside the Russian Federation”, they apply:

1. Irina Mauler and Marina Melamed-for organizing the musical and poetic festival "Bard of Bard of Readings" and the International Poetic Festival "The Road to the Temple" (Israel);
2. Alexander Melnik-for holding the World Poetic Festival "Emigrant Lira", the international poetic Internet competition "Emigrant Lira", visiting poetic evenings "Emigrant Lira" in different countries and poetic evenings in Belgium;
3. Georges Niva - for contribution to the development and savings of the traditions of Russian culture outside the Russian Federation.

In total, 547 applications from writers and poets from 39 countries of the world were submitted to participate in the competition in 2013.

“Short list”-the names of the winners of the Russian Prize contest will be announced at a press conference in the Yeltsin center on March 25, and the IX Laureata awarding ceremony will be held in Moscow, in the “President-Fairy” April 22.

The International Literary Competition "Russian Prize" was established in 2005 to preserve and develop the Russian language as a unique phenomenon of world culture and support Russian -speaking writers of the world.