Presentation of the Anton Delvig Prize in Moscow Automatic translate

MOSCOW. In the atrium of the State Museum A.S. On February 4, Pushkin hosted the Golden Delvig Literary Prize Award Ceremony, established by the editors of Literary Newspaper. Poets, publicists, prose writers, translators, children’s writers - a total of 18 writers have received prestigious awards in the field of literature.

The prize fund of the Anton Delvig Prize this year amounted to 7 million rubles. The jury awarded three Golden Delvigas and cash prizes in the amount of 1 million rubles to each, six Silver Delvigas and a cash incentive in the amount of 500 thousand rubles to each, as well as six bronze statuettes and 100 thousand rubles to each winner.

So, in the nomination “prose” the first gold figurine went to Sergey Yesin, secretary of the Union of Writers of Russia, the former editor of the Literary Institute, as well as the author of such famous novels as “Lenin. Death of the Titan "and" Tutor. The award with the interpretation “for many years of literary activity and the creation of works that became milestones in Soviet and Russian literary life” was awarded to Yesin by Alexander Prokhanov.

The second "gold" "for loyalty to high ethical ideals" was awarded to the poet Vladimir Kostrov for his recently published collection of military lyrics "So far…". The poet from Tatarstan Renat Haris became the owner of the third Golden Delvig. The award was given to him for the libretto of the ballet “The Golden Horde”, as well as for works of recent years with the interpretation “for a strong civic position in poetry, fidelity to the native language and deep insight into history”.

“Silver Delvig” was given to historian Yuri Zhukov, publicist Arseniy Zamostyanov, author of intellectual prose Vera Galaktionova, prose writer Mikhail Tarkovsky, poets Dmitry Kantov and Mushni Lasuria (Abkhazia).

“Bronzes” were awarded to Maria Ryakhovskaya, Vlad Malenko (his poetic narrative “The Adventures of the Dog Kefir” promises to soon become one of the favorite books of preschool children), Andrey Vorontsov, Victor Pronin, Vladimir Nezhdanov and Valentin Reznik. The special prize “Young Delvig” was awarded to Anna Chalysheva and Ivan Kupreyanov.

To participate in the competition program, more than two hundred works were submitted to the organizing committee of the Anton Delvig Prize. In addition to Russian authors, writers from Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Kazakhstan and Belarus took part in the competition.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru