The winner of the NOS literary prize has been announced

The 2016 NOS Award ceremony took place in Moscow at the Gogol Center. The winner was the writer Boris Legault with his novel Twilight Tales.

The Audience Award went to Igor Sakhnovsky with his novel “Freedom by Default.”

The laureate did not come forward to receive his own prize; instead, the prize was received by a representative of the Eksmo publishing house. Most likely, Boris Legault is the pseudonym of the publisher and writer Oleg Zobern. This version is confirmed by the fact that during the award ceremony there was a photograph of Zobern on the screen.

Bitter

• The literary prize “New Literature” (“NOS”) has been awarded since 2009. The founder of the prize is the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation.
• Evgeny Vodolazkin ( The Aviator ), Kirill Kobrin (Sherlock Holmes and the Birth of Modernity. Money, Girls, Dandies of the Victorian Era), Sergey Kuznetsov ( Kaleidoscope: Consumables ), Vladimir Martynov (The Book of Changes) also competed for the award. ), Alexandra Petrova (“Appendix”) and Sergei Lebedev (“People of August”).