Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award

Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award
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Awarded for	the best traditional-style novel
Country	Russia
Presented by	Yasnaya Polyana, Samsung Group
Reward(s)	6.7 million RUB
First awarded	2003
Website	http://www.yppremia.ru

The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award is an annual all-Russian literary award that was founded in 2003 by the Leo Tolstoy Museum Estate and Samsung Electronics. The award is presented for the best traditional-style novel written in Russian or translated into Russian.

The Yasnaya Polyana literary award maintains classical literature traditions by commemorating the authors of outstanding works and also supports contemporary literary works by noting talented writers. These two aspects allow the award to remain balanced and harmonious.

Background

Originally, till 2005, there were two categories: An Outstanding Work of Russian Fiction and An Outstanding Debut in Russian Fiction, renamed into Contemporary Classic and 21st Century, respectively. In 2012 (the award's 10-year anniversary), another nomination category was added to the award – Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, named after Leo Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels.[1][2][3]

The fourth category, Foreign Fiction, was added in 2015, and the fifth, Readers' Choice, in 2016. In 2017, Contemporary Classic was renamed into Contemporary Russian Fiction, Event category added; Childhood, Boyhood, Youth and 21st Century abandoned. Since then, the categories are as follows:

Contemporary Russian Fiction
Foreign Fiction
Event in arts, entertainment, and media
Readers' Choice[4]

The award's fund doubled since 2010. Currently, it amounts to 6.7 million RUB. The winner of the Contemporary Russian Fiction award receives 3 million roubles; 1.2 million roubles go to the Foreign Fiction laureate, while its translator gets 500 thousand, and 500 thousand roubles receives the winner in Event category. 1 million RUB is divided between the Contemporary Russian Fiction finalists. The Readers' Choice winner is awarded with a theme trip to South Korea, presented by Samsung. All winners receive a special statuette.[4]

The jury

The jury, which consists of famous writers, critics and literature experts, select authors whose works preserve the traditions of classic literature and, at the same time, represent the relevant trends of modern Russian and foreign literature.

Yasnaya Polyana jury members include famous Russian writers, literary critics and public figures. At present (2020) there are:

Vladimir Tolstoy– chairman of the jury, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on cultural matters, journalist;
Pavel Basinsky – journalist, writer, literary critic;
Aleksey Varlamov – novelist, scholar of 20th-century Russian literature;
Eugene Vodolazkin – literary critic, writer, winner of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award;
Valentin Kurbatov – writer, essayist, literary critic;
Vladislav Otroshenko – Russian writer and essayist, winner of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award.[5]

Winners[6]

2003 — 2005

Year	Outstanding Work	Outstanding Debut
2003	Viktor Likhonosov	Vladislav Otroshenko
2004	Timur Zulfikanov	Anton Utkin
2005	Anatolij Kim	Alexander Yakovlev[7]

2006 — 2011

Year	Contemporary Classics	21st Century
2006	Vasily Belov	Alexey Ivanov[8]
2007	Leonid Borodin	Zakhar Prilepin[9]
2008	Petr Krasnov	Ljudmila Saraskina
2009	Vladimir Lichutin	Vassilij Golovanov
2010	Mikhail Kuraev	Mikhail Tarkovsky[10]
2011	Fazil Iskander[11]	Elena Katishonok

2012 — 2014

Year	Contemporary Classics	21st Century	Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
2012	Valentin Rasputin	Evgenij Kasimov	Andrey Dmitriev
2013	Yury Bondarev	Evgenij Vodolazkin	Yury Nechiporenko[12]
2014	Boris Ekimov	Arsen Titov	Roman Senchin[13]

2015 — 2016

Year	Contemporary Classics	21st Century	Childhood, Boyhood, Youth	Foreign Fiction	Readers' Choice
2015	Andrei Bitov	Guzel Yakhina	Valery Bylinsky	Ruth Ozeki, Ekaterina Ilyina (translator)	Guzel Yakhina
2016	Vladimir Makanin	Narine Abgaryan, Alexander Grigorenko	Marina Nefyodova	Orhan Pamuk, Apollinaria Avrutina (translator)	Narine Abgaryan

Since 2017

Year	Contemporary Russian Fiction	Foreign Fiction	Event	Readers' Choice
2017	Andrei Rubanov	Mario Vargas Llosa, Kirill Korkonosenko (translator)	"LiteraTula" Children's Book Fair	Oleg Yermakov
2018	Olga Slavnikova	Amos Oz, Victor Radutski (translator)	Story of One Appointment (film)	Maria Stepanova
2019	Sergei Samsonov	Hernán Rivera Letelier, Darya Sinitsina (translator)	"The Glass Bead Game" Literary TV show	Grigori Sluzhitel

References

External links

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[1] ttp://www.rose.ru/news/2195/

[3] ttp://www.1bitv.com/detail.php?ID=122

[reg-4] Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award Regulations. (in Russian).

[5] Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award — The Jury. (in Russian)

[6] ttp://www.yppremia.ru/laureaty/

[7] ttp://www.zaharprilepin.ru/ru/litprocess/intervju-o-literature/aleksandr-jakovlev.html

[8] ttp://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2006/10/03/n_887394.shtml

[9] ttp://lenta.ru/news/2007/10/02/polyana/

[10] ttp://www.geopolitika.ucoz.ru/news/doska_pochet/2010-06-20-300

[11] ttp://alashara.org/en/news/the-prize-yasnaya-polyana-was-awarded-to-fazil-iskander_post/

[12] ttp://litrossia.ru/2013/41/08337.html

[13] ttp://www.vedomosti.ru/lifestyle/news/35054631/pobedila-vojna