The jury for the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award selected two winners in the XXI Century category for the first time in the history of the competition. This year, the recipients were Narine Abgaryan and Alexander Grigorenko. Narine Abgaryan received the award for her novel “Three Apples Fell from the Sky”.
This is what Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Partnership Mikhail Shvidkoy announced.
Established in 2003, the annual all-Russian Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award promotes the preservation of the traditions of Russian classic literature and the growth of the current trends in contemporary literature.
Presenting Abgaryan’s book, member of the jury and literary critic Alexey Varlamov stated the magnetism of the book. “There are books that I have read and forgotten that I am a jury member, forgotten about the long and short lists, forgotten that it is summer and forgotten about everything and have simply been grateful to the author for his or her existence in this wonderful world. I read Narine Abgaryan’s book with this exact feeling. The actions take place in a remote mountainous village of Armenia, the history of which is surely different from the histories of our countries,” Varlamov said as he shared his impressions.
Abgaryan and Grigorenko will each receive 1,000,000 rubles as a reward.
