Moscow Observer winners announced

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On Monday, December 19, the fourth Moscow Observer award ceremony took place, writes the Cultural Initiative website.

This year the prize winner was the poet and writer Maria Galina thanks to her article “Leonardo’s Man” about the presentation of Nikolai Zvyagintsev’s book “Take Off”.

Four finalists, including Olga Balla, Alla Gorbunova, Elena Dorogavtseva and Mikhail Nilin, will receive five thousand rubles each.

The Moscow Observer Prize was founded in 2013 to reward journalists and critics writing about literature. This year the jury included poet Kirill Korchagin, critic Leonid Kostyukov, poet Dmitry Kuzmin and the first winner of the Moscow Observer Prize, poet Gennady Kanevsky.