Description
IASNAIA POLIANA/ YASNAYA POLYANA LITERARY PRIZE
ЛИТЕРАТУРНАЯ ПРЕМИЯ «ЯСНАЯ ПОЛЯНА»
http://www.yppremia.ru/ (official webpage)
The Iasnaia Poliana Prize was established in 2003 by the Leo Tolstoy’s memorial museum Yasnaya Polyana and Samsung Electronics company. The winners are announced in October in Moscow. In 2003-2005 the prize was awarded in two nominations: Outstanding work of Russian literature and Outstanding debut work of Russian literature. Currently there are three nominations: Contemporary Classics (the winner receives 900 000 rubles = about $25 000), XXI century (the winner receives 750 000 rubles = about $20 000), and (from 2012) Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (the winner receives 300 000 rubles = about $8 000). In 2015 a new nomination Foreign Literature was introduced.
Pictures
Vladimir Tolstoi
Director of Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy Estate Museum, and Chairperson of the Jury
Prize
Anatolii Kim
2005 Winner
Petr Krasnov and Liudmila Saraskina
2008 Winners
2010 Jury
Mikhail Kuraev
2010 Winner in the Contemporary Classics nomination
Vladimir Tolstoy congratulates Mikhail Tarkovskii (right), 2010 Winner in the XXI Century nomination
2011 Winners
Fazil Iskander (center), Elena Katishonok (on his left)
Valentin Rasputin (left)
2012 Winner (Contemporary Classics nomination)
Andrei Dmitriev
2012 Winner (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth nomination)
2013 Winners and Finalists
2014 Diplomas
2014 Winners and Finalists
2015 Award Ceremony
Andrei Bitov
2015 Winner (Contemporary Classics nomination)
Guzel Iakhina and Valerii Bylinskii
2015 Winners (XXI Century and Childhood, Boyhood, Youth nominations)
Ruth Ozeki (right) and Ekaterina Il'ina
2015 Winners (Foreign Literature nomination)