The winner of the "Wanderer/Nos" award is named

On January 26, the debates of the Wanderer/nose literary prize, the regional project of the Nose Prize, were held at Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg. According to the results of the debate, the winner was declared - the novel "Leather" Evgenia Nekrasova.

This was reported by the website of the Foundation of Mikhail Prokhorov , who is the organizer of the Prizes "Wanderer/Nos" and "Nose". The video recording of debate is available on the YouTube channel of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation .

They were attended by a book critic Polina Boyarkina (Petersburg), local historian and city researcher Polina Ivanova (Yekaterinburg), director of the Piotrovsky bookstore, Mikhail Maltsev (Perm), co -founder of the Piotrovsky bookstore Denis Korneevsky (Yekaterinburg) and the chairman of the jury, translator Vadim Mikhailin (Saratov). The chairman of the Council of Elders of the Prize, the head of the department of creative projects of the Arsenal Museum in Nizhny Novgorod, Alexander Kuritsyn, joined the discussion. The moderator of Debatov was the curator of the regional “nose” award, historian and writer Kirill Kobrin.

The Wanderer/nose prize short-list included nine works of modern domestic writers: Oksana Vasyakina’s “wound”, “Kaprad Syndrome” Maxim Gureev, “Antiboda” by Kirill Kutalov, “Three characters in search of love and immortality” Olga Medvedkova, “Leather” by Evgenia Nekrasova, “Rif” by Alexei Polyarinov, “Type I” Islam Hanipaeva, “Stream” by Ivan Shipnigov and “Alkina” by Roman Shmarakov.

As a result, experts opted for the novel “Leather” Evgenia Nekrasova. She will come to the final ceremony of the Nose Award to Moscow, where on February 4 she will receive a statuette and a cash prize of 200 thousand rubles.

In 2020, Shamshad Abdullaev, the winner of the award, became the winner of the other south, in 2019-“Invasion. A brief story of Russian hackers ”Daniil Turovsky, in 2018- “ iPhuck 10 ” Viktor Pelevin.

The regional version of the “Nose” award called “Volga/Nos” arose in 2018 and was held in Nizhny Novgorod together with the Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin Museum (GCC Nizhny Novgorod-Arsenal). In 2021, the award moved to Yekaterinburg, receiving a new name - “Wanderer/nose”. It is understood that the bonus will continue to wander around Russia. Like the flagship “nose”, “wanderer/nose” is the only literary prize in Russia, the jury of which discusses its choice publicly. Both the short list and the winner are determined during the series of open debate.

The meaning of the project is decentralization of the literary process. The jury of the Wanderer/nose prize is discussing a new literature in different cities of Russia, involving the local community in the discussion.

Partners of the Wanderer/Nose Award-Yeltsin Center and the Volga-Vyatka branch of the Plane named after A.S. Pushkin (Arsenal)