Zvezda magazine determined winners in several categories

ST. PETERSBURG. The awarding ceremony of the oldest Russian magazine Zvezda took place.

“Star” is one of those constants that allows you not to lose optimism at any time. Having settled after the devastating decree of 1946 and accusations of inaction, the magazine, which noted in January 93, still does not base its editorial policy on serving the interests of a particular party. He does what he has to do. Enlightenment, publication of works by the best domestic and foreign authors, the discovery of new names. The magazine does not lower the bar in the selection of works and does everything possible to stay afloat for the sake of a considerable army of devoted readers. To a great extent, this is a merit of the chief editors of Zvezda - Yakov Gordin and Andrey Aryev. Established in 1994, the award encourages talented writers working in different genres. The essay "Mammoths", named the best in the nomination "Essay Studies", is dedicated to the writer and translator Vladimir Britanishsky. His poetic talent was highly appreciated by Joseph Brodsky. For over 40 years he has worked on translations of Polish and American poets, on numerous publications devoted to the homeland of his ancestors - Poland. The author of the essay is St. Petersburg writer and playwright, Gogol Prize winner Boris Goller.

The dramatic scenes in prose “Persons and Performers” by the literary critic and translator Gennady Barabartaro are named the best prose. A graduate of the philological department of Moscow State University, now a professor at the University of Missouri, for several decades has been translating the works of Vladimir Nabokov and fundamental studies of his work, the philosophical foundations of his worldview, the triple composition of the secret Nabokov themes movement. Barabtarlo advocates the return of the pre-reform spelling of the Russian language.

The winner in the poetic nomination is Larisa Shushunova, a student of Alexander Kushner, the author of poems and essays regularly published on the pages of the magazine. An essay by Sergei Tsyplyaev, member of the Committee on Civil Initiatives, Dean of the Law Faculty of the North-Western Institute of Management of the RANEPA on the August Disappearance of 1991, the collapse of the USSR, and the prospects for the development of modern Russia, received an award in the journalism category.

The publication of the memoirs of the Russian German Bruno Meisner, who went through the hell of the Stalinist camps and was released only after the death of a tyrant, brought the title of laureate to the writer Igor Kubersky. Convincing was the debut of Tatyana Shaposhnikova, who received an award in the appropriate nomination for the story “On the Black Leaves”.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru