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News and Events Everyday Saints and Other Stories Readers voted: Everyday Saints and Other Stories by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) has won Russia's highly prestigious Big Book literary award for the most popular book in 2012. Author Daniil Granin Receives Big Book Award November 28,2012 Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service
The second prize (silver) went to Alexander Kabakov and Evgeny Popov for their book Aksyonov. Third place (bronze) went to Marina Stepnova for Lazarus's Women. Daniil Granin was also presented with the Honor and Dignity Award.
Russian Booker Prize October 3, 2012. At a press conference at the hotel Golden Ring a short list of six finalists for the best novel was announced: 1.Marina Akhmedova. Дневник смертницы. Хадижа. (Diary of a Death Girl. Khadizha.)М.: АСТ-Астрель, 2011 2. Andrei Dmitriev.Крестьянин и тинейджер (The Peasant and the Teenager).М.: Время, 2012. 5. Marina Stepnova.Женщины Лазаря. (Lazarus's Women) М.: Астрель, 2011 Russian Booker Long List - 2012 1.Marina Akhmedova. Дневник смертницы. Хадижа. (Diary of a Death Girl. Khadizha.)М.: АСТ-Астрель, 2011 Big Book Short List – May 2012
Global Market Forum 2012 sheds light on principal emerging market in the fast globalization of the bookNorwalk, CT, March 28, 2012: Russia, rich in literary tradition and known for being one of the most well-read societies, has a robust publishing industry and a growing digital audience. Analysts estimate that the valuable Russian marketplace has consumer sales of $3.3 billion and is home to a diverse group of authors and dynamic publishing programs, offered by large, medium and independent publishing houses. Russian publishers, authors and booksellers are finding new readers, new partnerships and they are creating an international buzz. BEA's Global Market Forum Read Russia – a one-day conference on Monday, June 4, 2012 – offers an exciting and broad publishing agenda that will introduce, inform and ignite interest in Russian publishing. Expert speakers, including the CEOs of the largest Russian publishers and distributors, will share their knowledge and insight on everything Russian, with sessions focused on writing and translation, educational and digital publishing, intellectual properties and copyright issues. Under the headline of Read Russia, the professional program of the Global Market Forum will be further expanded by a rich cultural program between June 1 to June 8, across New York City. Sponsored by the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication, the far reaching festival offers audiences outside the BookExpo America community the opportunity to engage in a cross-cultural dialogue with the new generation of Russia's literary leaders and newsmakers. Media release  Elena Chizhova presents the book Time of Women at London Book Fair in 2011. Academia Rossica picture Russia will be the Guest of Honor at BookExpo America's Global Market Forum in 2012 in New York. In recognition of the growing publishing industry and book market in Russia which releases on average 120,000 titles per year, Russia will be the Guest of Honor at BookExpo America's Global Market Forum in 2012 in New York. Academia Rossica, a London based Russian Art and Culture Foundation and initiative for the promotion of Russian literature internationally, will co-sponsor the Russian delegation of 40+ authors as well as a delegation of booksellers and librarians.
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Attention Translators A new grants programme by Russkiy Mir coordinated by Academia Rossica The Russkiy Mir Foundation (Moscow), the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications and Academia Rossica (London) announce the start of the new grants programme for the translation of contemporary Russian literature into English. Read Russia Steven Rosato, Director of BookExpo America and Vladimir Grigoriev, Deputy Director of Russian Federal Agency for Press & Mass Communications announced the launch of Read Russia, a worldwide campaign to introduce Russian literature, writers, and publishing houses to the global publishing community. It will culminate in New York at BookExpo America (BEA) in June 2012. Next year will feature the largest cultural delegation of Russian authors and publishing professionals ever assembled to visit North America. November 2011
On November 1st, in St. Petersburg was announced a short list of the oldest independent literary prize of Russia - Andrey Bely Prize. The prize consisted of a single ruble. Despite it, the prize quickly became a major phenomenon of Russian literary life and one of the most prestigious awards. Andrei Bely Prize today seeks to take into account the priorities of aesthetic innovation and experimentation, stimulating that the line of Russian literature in which Andrei Bely wrote, has a special place. The award is designed to focus on the authors and the principles of radical innovations of artistic forms. Announcement of the winners of this year will be held in Moscow, at the Non / fiction Fair. 2011 Nominations in Poetry ● Paulina Barskova (Amherst, USA), "Report of Ariel." Moscow: NLO, 2011; 2011 Nominations in Prose ● Nicholai Bytov (Moscow), "Think what you say." M.: Colibri, 2011; National Big Book Prize 2011 On November 29nd at midnight in Moscow were announced the results of the vote for the National Big Book Prize and People's Choice.  Picture by Academia Rossica The highest estimate of the readers and the Big Book Prize got the novel Pismovnik by Mikhail Shishkin. At the second place was Vladimir Sorokin for Blizzard , the third - Dmitry Bykov's novel Ostromov, or the Sorcerer's Apprentice. December 2011 Russian Booker of the Decade 2001-2010 Alexander Chudakov ( 1938-2005) won Booker of the Decade, posthumously, for Ложится мгла на старые ступени ( finalist in 2001). Winners of the Andrey Bely Prize in 2011 On December 2,2011 at a press conference in Moscow the Andrei Bely Prize Committee announced the winners of 2011:
Andrey Polyakov (Simferopol), Chinese descent. M.: A New Publishing House, 2010;
Wiiner in the nomination Prose: Translations of Nikolai Baitov's poems in Cardinal Points . The New Russian Literature Arrives to American Cities Non-profit Causa Artium together with the Debut Prize works to bring a group of Russia's young writers to America:Alisa Ganieva, Dmitry Biryukov, Irina Bogatyreva and Igor Savelyev.  Picture by Causa Artium National Bestseller 2012 Long List On February 7th the long listNational Bestseller-2012 was published. Forty five nominations are included. The big jury within two months will draw up a shortlist of six works for final consideration. |
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