The finalists of National Best were declared, Sergey Nosov’s “curly brackets” are the leaders

The small jury of the Russian Literary Prize "National Besseller" chose six books of the short list of 2015, publishing a list of finalists on the National Best website .

The responsible secretary of the Prize Organizing Committee Vadim Levental in a commentary on the published list marked the record of this year: “Nobody never received 19 points from the large jury in National Best. Well, the result is well -deserved -“ Figure brackets ”is the really great luck of Sergei Nosova, which is precisely considered one of the largest proseals of St. Petersburg, and all of Russia.”

He also said that for the first time Oleg Kashin got into the short list of National Best, "although several years ago he was already becoming a member of our small jury."

List of finalists "National Best":

• Sergey Nosov - "Figure brackets" (19 points);
• Oleg Kashin - "Gorby -Dream" (6 points);
• Anna Matveeva - "nine nineties" (6 points);
• Alexander Snegirev - "Vera" (6 points);
• Vasily Avchenko - "Crystal in a transparent frame" (5 points);
• Tatyana Moskvina - "The Life of the Soviet Girl" (5 points).

This year, the small jury of National Best is a critic Artemy Troitsky (chairman), writer and poet, National Best laureate Ksenia Buke, actress and TV presenter Alla Mikheeva, poet and musician Vadim Stepantsov, artist Vladimir Shinkarev, actor Efim Shifrin and Chirurg, Sergey Yashin, reported Colta.ru .

On June 7, in the winter garden of the Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg, a small jury will be voted, which will determine the winner. He will receive a cash prize, equivalent to 10 thousand dollars, participants in the short-list will receive incentive prizes in an amount equivalent to 1 thousand dollars.

Also this year, the organizing committee established the award "For personal courage in cultural space" in memory of criticism and translator, founder of the National Bestriller Viktor Toporov (1946-2013), writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . This time, the co -founder Konstantin Tublin chose the prize laureates. The premium fund in the amount of 10 thousand dollars was shared by the editor -in -chief of RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan, who, receiving a reward, noticed that “personal courage is not required to express the views of the majority,” and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who received a reward for his letters from the colony.