Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award

Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award
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Awarded for	the best traditional-style novel in three nomination categories: “Contemporary Classic,” “21st Century” and “Childhood, Boyhood, Youth”
Country	Russian Federation
Presented by	Samsung Group
Reward	1.8 million RUB
First awarded	2003
Official 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.

The awards, in spirit of Leo Tolstoy, are in the following categories:^[1]

Contemporary Classic
21st Century
Childhood, Adolescence and Youth

A jury that 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 literature.

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.^[2]^[3]

The award’s fund has doubled since 2010. Currently, it amounts to 1.8 million RUB. The winner of the “21st Century” award receives 750,00 rubles, while the “Contemporary Classic” laureate receives 900,000 rubles. The fund for the award finalists that are included in the short list amounts to 150,000 rubles.

Background

The Yasnaya Polyana literary award maintains classical literature traditions by commemorating the authors of famous 20th-century works and also follows relevant tendencies of contemporary literary traditions by noting talented 20th-century writers. These two aspects allow the award to remain balanced and harmonious.

Yasnaya Polyana jury members include famous Russian writers, literary critics and public figures:

Vladimir Tolstoy– chairman of the jury, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on cultural matters, journalist
Lev Anninsky – Soviet and Russian literary critic, writer, essayist, literature expert
Pavel Basinsky – journailst, writer, literary critic
Aleksey Varlamov – novelist, scholar of 20th-century Russian literature
Igor Zolotusskiy – Soviet and Russian literary critic, journalist, writer
Valentin Kurbatov – writer, essayist, literary critic
Vladislav Otroshenko – Russian writer and essayist, winner of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award.

Winners

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Year	Outstanding Achievement	Best debut
2003	Viktor Likhonosov	Vladislav Otroshenko
2004	Timur Zulfikanov	Anton Utkin
2005	Anatolij Kim	Alexander Yakovlev^[9]

Year	Contemporary classics	21st century	Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
2006	Vassiliy Belov	Alexey Ivanov	-
2007	Leonid Borodin	Zakhar Prilepin	-
2008	Petr Krasnov	Ljudmila Saraskina	-
2009	Vladimir Lichutin	Vassilij Golovanov	-
2010	Mikhail Kuraev	Mikhail Tarkovsky	-
2011	Fazil Iskander^[10]	Elena Katishonok	-
2012	Valentin Rasputin	Evgenij Kasimov	Andrey Dmitriev
2013	Yury Bondarev	Evgenij Vodolazkin	Yury Nechiporenko
2014	Boris Ekimov	Arsen Titov	Dmitry Senchin
2015	Andrei Bitov	Guzel Yakhina	Valery Bylinsky

References

Winners of Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award were announced // Gazeta.ru // 21.10.2014
Medinsky has criticized the school literature programm //Lenta.ru// 21.10.2014
Winners of Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award were announced // Vedomosti.ru// 22.10.2014
The trilogy about the First World War won in Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award // Rg.ru// 22.10.2014

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