Debut Award Results. Nomination reduction without quality degradation

MOSCOW. The debut award jury announced the names of the best young authors of 2015 in four nominations.

The crisis, which touched different spheres of life, did not bypass the Debut award, cutting the number of nominations to four. But he did not cancel the main thing: talented people were left a chance to be heard, read, marked. The winners of the award, founded in 2000, in the past years were: the famous playwright, screenwriter and director Vasily Sigarev, the owner of Russian Booker 2015 Alexander Snegirev, the laureate and semi-finalist of many literary awards Alisa Ganieva (member of the jury of the current award), Ksenia Stepanycheva, Yaroslava Pulinovich.

The best in 2015 were chosen those whose voice was the most distinct and convincing. In the “Big Prose” section, Sergey Gorshkovozov’s epic novel “Falcon Frontier” about pilots won. Events in the new Iliad (according to the apt definition of the writer Andrei Gelasimov) occur during the Great Patriotic War. The format of "Little Prose" was best suited by Gleb Didenko, who presented to the jury a collection of autobiographical short stories "Poplar trembling." The work of a journalist and editor of a radio station, assuming the ability to present a topic concisely, vividly, figuratively, is the best school for working with small literary forms. Less than a year has passed from its first publication to the victory in Debut. The greater the victory. An unforgettable phrase about the prospects of different generations will be quoted more than once: “The Soviet man had a future, although it was destined that he should not be. We have no future, although most likely it will be. ” Participation in the nomination “Poetry” allowed the remarkable poet Vladimir Belyaev, a resident of Tsarskoye Selo, to make himself known. “After all, the final is all the same without me: if they want to, they will remove it like a fallen maple leaf…” The jury could not ignore the real talent, having awarded Belyaev a victory in the poetic section.

An interesting essay by Nikolai Podosokorsky from Veliky Novgorod, interpreting Pogorelsky’s “Black Chicken” from the point of view of Masonic rituals, allows you to look in a completely new way at a story familiar from childhood. The special prize for the best children’s book was awarded to the Sochi writer Dmitry Buchelnikov for the novel “Majar”.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru