Announced the winner of “The Big Book” – Russian newspaper

The Pashkov House held a ceremony awarding the winners of the National Literary Prize “Big Book.” In the Year of Literature largest literary prize celebrates its tenth anniversary. It seems that these are not random coincidences.

To “warm up”, as they say, students of the Moscow Art Theater Studio School read excerpts from the works of the winners of previous years. A ceremony held Vizbor singer Barbara and director Alexei Agranovich.

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As a result, the first place among the most brilliant debut of the year – the novel “Zuleiha opens his eyes,” Guzel Jachin. Second – from the novel “candle” Valery Zalotuhi. The award was received the widow of the writer, as the author did not become a few months after the nomination.

Third place in the “flood zone” Roman Senchin.

For those who do not know, a few words about The Winner. Guzel Yakhina graduated from the Foreign Languages ​​Department of Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, and then decided to become a writer – now studying scriptwriting faculty of the Moscow film school. The novel “Zuleiha opens his eyes,” is already marked by several other prizes (“Book of the Year”, “Yasnaya Polyana”). It seems that among bibliophiles there anyone who has not read the book, but if there are, let us recall the story: peasant Zuleiha with hundreds of other migrants sent on the train freight car on the convict route to Siberia. There fragile Zuleiha have to survive, despite all the difficulties. Having lived for several years before that under the yoke in-law, Upyrihi in these difficult conditions Zuleiha still opens his eyes.

Recall that yesterday became known winner of the reader’s vote. People also awarded victory Guzel Jachin and its “Zuleiha”.

People’s Choice Award was presented by Mikhail Shvydkoi. Special prize award “Big Book” this year went to the Library of classical literature for the RTR TV series based on the works of Russian literary classics. In the framework of established series Ursulyak Sergei, Sergei Snezhkin, Vladimir Bortko, Vladimir Hotinenko and Gleb Panfilov. We are talking about such works as “The First Circle,” “Master and Margarita”, “Demons”, “Taras Bulba”, “Life and Fate” and others. At the ceremony, received the award for all the general producer of these works Zlatopolsky Anton, director Vladimir Hotinenko and Gleb Panfilov. Since the outgoing year literature greeted the coming Year of the movie.

presents awards to the chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, noting that “literature has the gift of foresight. According to the author, the artist does not lose its value and purpose. It helps us to be better, cleaner and kinder “.

Direct speech

Before the ceremony, we were asked to say a few words about the” Big Book “Dmitry Bak, Director of the State Literature museum, head of the Literary Academy Award this year:

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– Today is a kind of restart reading preferences as a result of premium trends. An important example – a return to the mainstream of the novel, the story, the novel, history, devoid of stylistic external complications. The story can be built on a biography of the family, on the everyday details of our time or history, but the broad interest in the postmodern tricks in the past. Of course, we must also think about the meaning of these changes, ask yourself, do not indicate whether they are of the “massification” of literature …

Another trend is largely formed the “Big Book” – the popularity of books about the “recent stories”. Too serious events took place in Russia and with Russia in the twentieth century to be able to leave them behind. And the focus is not the cataclysms of the seventeenth year, but rather a conflict of the eighties and nineties.

Here is necessary to analyze not distract you stories about the recent past of the pressing events of the day?

The first decade of life “Big Book”, no doubt, be considered a success.

The experience gained allows us to hope for future achievements, though important in literature – literature itself, rather than bonus stories and passions. Let us hope that the Russian literature will delight the reader, and even for the experts of the largest literary award of Russia will not be the case …

By the way

Especially for the 10th anniversary of the award “Big Book” in the “Editions Shubina Elena” was a collection of modern prose “Big Book winners”: novyerasskazy and essays of all award winners (24 original). Among them Zakhar Prilepin, Dina Rubina, Ulitskaya, Victor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, Eugene Vodolazkin Paul Basinskii and others. The book will be in bookstores tomorrow, on 11 December.

Help “RG”

National Literary Prize “Big Book” was established in 2005 “Support Center Russian literature. ” Over the years it became laureates Daniel Granik, Eugene Vodolazkin Paul Basinskii, Zakhar Prilepin, Ulitskaya Leonid Yuzefovich, Mikhail Shishkin, Dmitri Bykov and many others. Prize fund premiums – 6.1 mln. Rubles. First Prize – 3 million rubles, the second – 1.5 million rubles, the third – 1 million rubles.

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