The finalists of the "enlightener" of the anniversary year

The Enlightener Prize began 10 years ago, when there was little science science literature in the book, ”Dmitry Zimin recalled in his short word at the ceremony of presenting a short list. It took place on October 4, 2017, on the day of the 60th anniversary of the launch of the first Earth satellite, in the Geological Museum of Moscow. Vernadsky.

““ Comrades Scientists! Associates with candidates! Write! ”” - we turned to the authors, and now the scientist has become one of the most popular sections of Russian literature, ”said Dmitry Borisovich. He recalled another anniversary-the 25th anniversary of cellular communications in Russia, among the founders of which he himself was in our country. “But I'm completely not sure that both cellular communications and popular science literature successfully counteract the wildness of society. Nevertheless, both are useful and contributes to the good and eternal. ”

Zimin announced a surprise that they had been waiting for a long time. Since 2018, most likely, the “Enlightener” will have a new nomination-“For the best popular science transfers”. True, the exact format of the nomination has not yet been defined.

The discussion who worthy of the release to the anniversary for the prize for the prize was held the jury the day before: it dragged on until late in the evening. The book of Tim Skorenko from one nomination passed to another. “I never thought to be the chairman is so difficult. You did not warn me, you pretended that it is very easy. Looking at you, I made the wrong conclusion that this is very easy, ”said physicist Alexei Semikhatov, who led the high book horizon in 2012-2015 in a conversation with Boris Saltykov, who led the high book horizom of the“ enlightener ”of this year. “So, after all, the jury performed all the work, and I pretended that I am uniting them,” the president of the Polytechnic Museum retorted, laughing. “So they did not know that you were pretending, they thought that you were actually uniting them,” Aleksey Mikhailovich summed up, in addition to working in Fian, the host of the program “On the verge of madness” on the OTR.

The result of the jury was a list of eight books, which was presented by the 2016 prize laureates, Alexander Panchin and Sergey Kavtaradze .

In the nomination "Natural Sciences"

Varlamova Daria , Anton Zayniev . “Go crazy! Guide to mental disorders for a resident of the big city. " M.: Alpina Plisher, 2016;

Drobyshevsky Stanislav . "Given the link" (in two volumes). Book One. "Monkey and all-all-all." M.: Corpus, 2017;

Kazantseva Asya . “On the Internet, someone is wrong! Scientific research of controversial issues. " M.: Corpus, 2016;

Litvak Nelli , Raigorodsky Andrey . “Who needs mathematics? A clear book about how the digital world works. ” M.: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2017.

In the nomination "Humanities "

Kurilla Ivan . "History, or the past in the present." St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the European University in St. Petersburg, 2017;

Kozlova Alena , Mikhailov Nikolay , Ostrovskaya Irina , Irina Shcherbakova . “The sign will not be erased. The fate of the Ostarbeters in letters, memoirs and oral stories. ” M.: Ageytomesh Publishing House, 2016;

Pipper Alexander . “The design of languages. From Esperanto to Dotraki. ” M.: Alpina Non-Fix, 2017;

Skorenko Tim . “Invented in Russia. The history of Russian inventive thought from Peter I to Nicholas II. ” M.: Alpina Non-Fix, 2017.

The organizing committee of the "Enlightener" pleased with another surprise. It was decided to encourage five books within the new nomination "Informat". All her laureates will receive a reward of 50 thousand rubles. First of all, the book of the marine photographer and biologist Alexander Semenov was marked “The Magic World of the Cold Seas” (Paulsen Publishing House). Alexander Arkhangelsky presented the book of Yuri Brodsky “Solovki. The labyrinth of the transformations ”(New Gazeta Publishing House), and Alexei Semikhatov, walking around the hall, is a collection of 25 interviews with mathematicians and linguists“ Mathematical Walks ”(Paulsen Publishing House), some of which initially came out in the“ Trinity version-science ”.

In turn, Yevgeny Bunimovich spoke about the book “Through the Linza of Time: Pontiff-Apostle of the World” Natalia Zazulina (Publishing House of the Center for the Book of Ru-Domino), dedicated to the Pope, Roman Benedict XV, who held this post in 1914-1922. The Snob project, in the person of Alexei Aleksenko, awarded the annual subscription to his edition of the Japanist and Cultural Student Evgeny Shteiner, the author of the book “Manga Hokusai. Encyclopedia of old Japanese life in pictures. ” “All my life I have been an informal young man,” said the famous orientalist. “And finally I got a prize for this.”

The names of the two laureates of the "Enlightener" we will recognize on November 16, 2017 at the award ceremony.

Natalia Demina

Video recording the ceremony see . https://youtu.be/xsglgpa8ot0