Announced a short list of the Nos-2016 Prize

Today, November 2, according to the results of open debates of the Literary Prize "Nos", which took place at the X Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair, a short list of nominees of 2016 is determined.

According to COLTA.RU correspondent, seven works are included in the short list of the Nos2016 Prize:

• Evgeny Vodolazkin - "Aviator";
• Kirill Kobrin - “Sherlock Holmes and the birth of modernity. Money, girls, dandy of the Victorian era ”;
• Sergey Kuznetsov - “Kaleidoscope: Consumables”;
• Vladimir Martynov - "Book of Changes";
• Alexandra Petrova - "Appendix";
• Boris Lego - “Twilight Stories”;
• Sergey Lebedev - "People of August."

The final debate of the Nos-2016 award with the choice of the winner will be held at the Gogol Center in Moscow on January 24, 2017 . The winner in the nomination "Prize of reader sympathy" will be determined by the results of an online voting, which began on November 1.

The jury of the award includes theatrical director Konstantin Bogomolov (jury chairman), film critic Anton Dolin, translator of Russian literature, Agnieshka Lubomir Piotrovsk, historian, head of the Oral History of the Foundation Dmitry Sporov and Doctor of Philology, professor of Moscow State University Tatyana Venediktova.

The Nose Award (New Literature) was founded in 2009 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation to identify and support new trends in modern artistic literature in Russian. The main feature of the bonus is the openness of the decision -making process. An indispensable condition of the jury is the need to publicly argue the choice of finalists and the winner in the framework of the current show in the presence and with the active participation of journalists, writers and the cultural public.

The Grand Prix of the Nos-2015 Prize received Danila Zaitsev for the book "The Tale and Life of Danila Terentyevich Zaitsev."