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NOS Literary Prize Shortlist Announced
The shortlist of contenders for the NOS (New Literature) Literary Prize for 2014 has been announced. The "short list" was announced on October 31 as part of the opening of the Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair.
The following reached the final of the award: "It's called so" by Linor Goralik, "Telluria" by Vladimir Sorokin, "Conqueror of the Ornament" by Maxim Gureev, "Parallel Action" by Alexander Milstein, "King of the Drowned" by Alexei Tsvetkov Jr., "Demon Descartes" by Vladimir Rafeenko, " Together with everyone” by Margarita Meklina and two works of non-fiction - “Children of the Third Reich” by Tatyana Freydensson and “Second Hand Time” by Svetlana Aleksievich.
During the debate, the expert community and members of the [NOS award] jury, chaired by the poet and translator Dmitry Kuzmin, formed a “short list” of 9 books.
- The NOS (New Literature) award was established by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. The winner of the award receives an award in the amount of 700 thousand rubles. and a commemorative statue. Each of the finalists receives 40 thousand rubles. In addition, according to the results of open voting, an audience award of 200 thousand rubles is awarded.
- The name of the winner of the NOS award for 2014 will be announced at the end of January. The award will be presented for the sixth time.
- The winner of the award for 2013 was Andrey Ivanov with the novel Harbin Moths. *