Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award | |
Awarded For: | the best traditional-style novel |
Presenter: | Yasnaya Polyana, Samsung Group |
Country: | Russia |
Reward: | 6.7 million RUB |
Year: | 2003 |
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.
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]
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:
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.
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:
Year | Outstanding Work | Outstanding Debut | |
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2003 | Vladislav Otroshenko | ||
2004 | Anton Utkin | ||
2005 | Alexander Yakovlev[6] |
Year | Contemporary Classics | 21st Century | |
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2006 | Alexey Ivanov[7] | ||
2007 | Zakhar Prilepin[8] | ||
2008 | |||
2009 | |||
2010 | Mikhail Tarkovsky[9] | ||
2011 | Fazil Iskander[10] |
Year | Contemporary Classics | 21st Century | Childhood, Boyhood, Youth |
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2012 | Andrey Dmitriev | ||
2013 | Yury Nechiporenko[11] | ||
2014 | Roman Senchin[12] | ||
Year | Contemporary Classics | 21st Century | Childhood, Boyhood, Youth | Foreign Fiction | Readers' Choice | |
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2015 | Ruth Ozeki, Ekaterina Ilyina (translator) | |||||
2016 | Orhan Pamuk, Apollinaria Avrutina (translator) | Narine Abgaryan |
Year | Contemporary Russian Fiction | Foreign Fiction | Event | Readers' Choice | |
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2017 | Mario Vargas Llosa, Kirill Korkonosenko (translator) | "LiteraTula" Children's Book Fair | Oleg Yermakov | ||
2018 | Amos Oz, Victor Radutski (translator) | Story of One Appointment (film) | |||
2019 | Sergei Samsonov | Hernán Rivera Letelier, Darya Sinitsina (translator) | "The Glass Bead Game" Literary TV show | Grigori Sluzhitel | |
2020 | Evgeniy Chizov | Patricia Duncker, Alexandra Borisenko and Victor Sonkin (translators) | |||
2021 | Julian Barnes, Dmitry Simanovsky and Sergei Polotovsky (translators) | Каждый день сначала. Валентин Распутин и Валентин Курбатов: диалог длиною в сорок лет | Marina Stepnova | ||
2022 | Dmitry Danilov | Yu Hua, Yuliya Dreyzis (translator) | Islam Hanipaev |