The award supports new voices and the finest examples of
independent contemporary Russian-language literature,
promoting them in the global cultural landscape
The award was created to support and promote authors writing in Russian, regardless of their place of residence and citizenship. We strive to draw attention to new voices and the best examples of modern Russian-language literature. The Prize strives to create a new one, where literature in Russian takes its rightful place in the world, being responsible to humanity, and not to dictatorships.
Read the Award Guidelines(NOT) ABOUT WAR — Zhenya Berezhnaya
DAMOCLES TECHNO — Ilya Danishevsky
A LULLABY FOR MARIUPOL — Alexandra Krashevskaya
LITTLE PARADISE — Ksenia Buksha
DREAMERS VS. ASTRONAUTS — Evgeny Feldman
ONLY CACTUSES SURVIVE IN WAR — Alexander Motsar
NOTHING BUT THE HEART — Grisha Prorokov
DAYS OF REPENTANCE — Oleg Radzinsky
THE MORNING WAS THE EYE — Igor Beloded
EVRIDIKA, CHECK IF YOU TURNED OFF THE GAS — Tatyana Zamirovskaya
Mikhail Edelstein
Literary scholar
Evgeniya Vezhlyan
Poet, literary critic, essayist, literary scholar and sociologist of literature
Elizaveta Birger-Eroğlu
Philologist, translator, literary critic, curator of cultural events, and manager of the bookstore "Poltory Komnaty" in Istanbul
Nikolai Aleksandrov
Cultural and literary scholar, essayist, journalistThe winner of the award is the author whose book will receive the most votes in the open voting of the Jury. The main award is a grant to translate the book into foreign languages.
The story “Parents' Day” is a vivid, poignant portrait of life during wartime, where events are intertwined with memories and reflections. Against the backdrop of a war-torn but vibrant city, the main character tries to understand and maintain a connection with his son in the midst of tragic events. Through their dialogues, internal monologues, and encounters with people, he reveals the generational conflict of worldviews, the theme of duty, personal responsibility, and love. Death for one's beliefs is a reality of our time. This book is not only a family story, but also a direct look at war, its everyday nature and cruelty. The synthesis of documentary accuracy, lyricism, and philosophical reflection transforms Parent's Day into a text that touches the deepest strings of the soul and encourages us to live when it seems that we no longer have the strength to do so.
The war began on television. But it didn't stay there. A Moscow saga during Putin's war in Ukraine. The Naydenov family lived their lives, while outside their apartment windows, a different life was being lived, controlled by different people. The Naydenovs thought that's how it would always be—two parallel, unintersecting lives in one country. Or two countries—their own private one and the rest of Russia. Then the war started, and everything changed. Now they had to decide whether to run or fight. Or try to put back together what the war had broken. The war started on TV. Then the tanks rolled off the blue screen and into our apartments. Along with the war.
"...The first rupture of war. You still don't understand, don't realize what war is. You still think it's a local event that will freeze in history, in your own memory, as a vivid episode that you can later recall as a tragicomic curiosity. You don't yet know that at this very moment your world has shattered into thousands of shapeless, ugly fragments. A person's world ceases to be a coherent story and falls apart into episodes — sometimes disjointed, random — in which old friends and acquaintances are often lost, but new shadows of a new reality appear.
A debut autofiction novel about asexuality, aromanticism, Christianity, and one summer in Tbilisi. The narrator moves from Russia to Georgia and falls in love through correspondence with someone living in Moscow, but soon begins to ask himself questions: What is love? What does it mean to fall in love? What does he really want from people? Documenting his first summer in exile: walks around the city, hanging out in bars with friends, trips to the mountains — Grisha Prorokov explores his own experience of asexuality and aromanticism, drawing on the history and culture of Christianity: the letters of the Apostle Paul, the tapestries “Lady with a Unicorn” and the image of Mary Magdalene.
A novel in which the carefree macabre of the characters is paradoxically homologous to the complex reality, highlighting its most monstrous twists and turns, offers the reader a journey into the world under the stairs, a trip in your pocket: be brave, my friend, scratch the cat behind the ear, — there will be fairy tales capable of prolonging life (just don't stop telling them), tin girls torn apart by patrons, people with sharp edges, empty hopes, and something that, alas, even love cannot defeat this season.
The protagonist of Yuri Troitsky's debut novel is a modern trickster. We don't know his first or last name, only the cute German word “Schatz” — “treasure” — which he and his wife use to refer to each other. Schatz is an entrepreneur who made his career in the 1990s and 2000s and regularly finds himself in various predicaments, some absurd, some dramatic, and some hopeless. Nevertheless, he manages to get out alive every time. We watch the hero grow up and come of age in the Moscow suburbs and Moscow, then we see him in Riga, London, and seaside resorts. Despite the circumstances, Schatz remains a human being everywhere, even if, like his famous predecessor, he tries to practice relatively honest ways of taking money from the population. We will see the hero for the last time on February 24, 2022, in Odessa — but, of course, this is not the end of his life...
“Little Paradise” is the first attempt in the history of the ongoing war to reflectively look into the future: what will happen 15 years after it ends?
You have seen Yevgeny Feldman's photographs, even if you don't know who took them. The panorama of the rally on Bolotnaya Square, Alexei Navalny with his “dosirak” and on his way to the Central Election Commission, clashes with Berkut on Maidan, the “parade of prisoners” in Donetsk, the human chain in Minsk — Feldman's photographs capture an entire era, and no one else has seen so many of its key events from such close quarters. In just a few years, the teenager who used to go to punk concerts with his camera became Russia's most famous documentary filmmaker — and the country descended into brutal repression and full-scale war. To honestly show the main stages of this journey, Feldman risked his life many times and broke the rules. Therefore, the book in which he talks about his work reads both as a tragedy and an adventure novel.
On February 24, 2022, Ukrainian Zhenya Berezhnaya woke up to a call from her relatives in Kharkiv: war had begun. Her familiar life in beloved Kyiv, where Zhenya wrote fairy tales for adults, taught, and hosted a podcast about literature, was over. Sirens and nights spent in basements, evacuation, fleeing, the loss of a loved one, attempts to rebuild her life in a new country — all this is described in Berezhnaya's autobiographical novel (Not) About War. This book is not really about war — it is about the experience of overcoming trauma, about how, thanks to creativity and the support of caring people, there is a place for freedom, love, and hope in a terrible reality.
Spring 2022 in Mariupol. This book immerses the reader in the events of that time. Amidst rocket fire, the voice of a young woman can be heard, sometimes calm and hopeful, sometimes breaking into a desperate cry. We are presented with a kaleidoscope of images of unbearable reality. After what she has been through, the author manages to do the almost impossible — to keep hope alive.
Tatyana Zamirovskaya's first non-fiction book is a collection of essays, memories, and reflections on memory and forgetting, music and love, emigration and ties to Belarus through the ghostly identity of a person who once believed that music is stronger than death and text is more important than life. The book originated from a long essay about experiencing the war in Ukraine, “Spending The War Without You.” , in which I describe the year 2022, when I was working in news (Voice of America), experiencing intense emotional detachment, and going to all the concerts of my favorite musicians from my youth in order to feel alive again and relearn how to cry.
In the collection of short stories “The Morning Was an Eye” by Igor Beloded, a semi-finalist for the Big Book Award, there are, on the contrary, plenty of oddities. Igor Beloded, as can be seen from his novel The Great Mother, published by RIPOL Classic, and the collection of short stories Don't Talk About Him (Alpina.Proza, 2023), is more of a “writer for writers” than a writer for readers. However, in the short story format, the complexity beloved by the author takes on a concentrated form. Beloded's stories are like a mixture that can and should be taken in one gulp. Two stories a day, seven days a week, for a successful course of treatment for a lack of beautiful literary language and (straight) linearity of time.
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Literary Meetings and Events, May 16–18
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May 23–24 in Madrid: Knigi.Blizko Book Fair
Interview
Zhenya Berezhnaya on Nikolai Alexandrov’s Program Not Only About Books
About Dar Prize
“People Have Been Thrown Out of Their Biographies.” A New Discussion of the Dar Prize Shortlist
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Литературные встречи и события с 12 по 16 мая
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Dmitry Bykov’s New Novel Black River Has Been Published by Freedom Letters
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“From the Author”: A Film Collection of Contemporary Russian-Language Poetry
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May 8 in Tbilisi: Vladimir Sorokin to Present the Novel Fairy Tale
The Word to Claude
A Father’s Testimony: A Genre That Should Not Exist. On Dmitry Petrov’s Novella
The Word to Claude
A Hell More Terrible than Hell. On Alexandra Krashevskaya’s Book
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The Dar Prize at the Berlin Book Fair
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April 30: Berlin, London, and Online — Performance, Brodsky, and a Conversation about Fairy Tales
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April 29 in Belgrade: Vladimir Sorokin to Meet with Readers
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New Books from Freedom Letters: Genis, Kononov, and Prose about War, Disappearance, and Freedom
The Word to Claude
Thorns in the Ashes: Testimony as Form. On Alexander Motsar’s Book
The Word to Claude
War as a Mode of the Body’s Existence. On Zhenya Berezhnaya’s Book
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April 27 in London: Antony Beevor and Vladimir Raevskiy to Discuss a Book on Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs
Review
От Таро до Эдгара По: Илья Данишевский в разговоре с Николаем Александровым о книге «Дамоклово техно» и эмиграции
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Armen Zakharyan’s Book Letters of Obscure Men Has Been Published
The Word to Claude
The Camera Shutter. On Yevgeny Feldman’s Book
The Word to Claude
Spending the War Without You: An Archaeology of Survival. On Tatyana Zamirovskaya’s Book
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April 18 in Berlin: Public Talk and Presentation of Vadim Zakharov’s Books Artist Must Think
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April 16 in Berlin: A Meeting with Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Tolstoy and Nabokov
The Word to Claude
Nothing but the Heart: A Theology of Perplexity. On Grisha Prorokov’s Novel
The Word to Claude
A Pocket Full of Children: The Anatomy of Queer Horror. On Ilya Danishevsky’s Novel Damocles Techno
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April 11–18: Dina Rubina. Mirrors and Hidden Chambers of Fate in Chișinău, Prague, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, and Luxembourg
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April 9–11 in Rouen and Bougival. International Conference Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel
Interview
Georgy Urushadze on Books, Censorship, and Freedom Letters Publishing
The Word to Claude
The Topography of Trauma: A Parabolic Novel about the Impossibility of Paradise. On Ksenia Buksha’s Novel A Little Paradise
About Dar Prize
What to Read? Literary Critics Discuss the Shortlist of the Dar Prize, Season 2. Episode 2
The Word to Claude
Поэтика распада: о прозе Игоря Белодеда
Interview
Oleg Lekmanov in Katerina Gordeeva’s Interview on Contemporary Literature and Wartime Poetry
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March 28 in Amsterdam: Evgeny Feldman. Presentation of the album This Is Navalny
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March 27 in Berlin: Masha Slonim. Presentation of the book Returns. An Unserious Memoir
The Word to Claude
The Mechanics of Seizure: A Moscow Saga as Diagnosis. On Oleg Radzinsky’s Novel Days of Repentance
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March 26 in Berlin: Presentation of Anastasia Vepreva’s book On Hold
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The Exeter UNESCO City of Literature Writers’ Residency is now accepting applications for 2026
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March 24, online, Ksenia Luchenko, “The Sacred Language of War: How Religious Narratives Legitimize Violence”
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March 19 in Berlin: Ilya Danishevsky. Book presentation of "Damocles Techno" and "The Bear and the Pendulum"
The Word to Claude
The Anatomy of a Survivor: A Novel-Epitaph for an Era. On Yuri Troitsky’s Novel Shatz
The Word to Claude
Preface to the project The Word to Claude. Ways of Evaluating Literary Works
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On March 14, Sergey Girin's book “From 3+5 to Z. The Language of One War” will be presented in Prague.
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March 12 in Riga: presentation of Sergei Kuznetsov's novel Moss's Meat Grinder
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March 13 in Berlin Sasha Filipenko. “How We Fail to Notice the Elephant: Fear, Love, and Collective Blindness”
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Tamara Eidelman on Dmitry Petrov's book “Parents' Day”
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Oleg Radzinsky on the novel Days of Repentance — a conversation with Nikolai Alexandrov
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On March 11, Boris Iomdin's book New Words: Netudashka or Serdzhezmjak? will be presented in Berlin.
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Freedom Letters in February: new books, translations, and meetings with authors
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Evgeny Feldman on the book Dreamers Against Cosmonauts, protests, and emigration
About Dar Prize
What to read? Literary critics discuss the shortlist for season 2
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March 5 in Nice: Sergey Kuznetsov's author's evening
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March 3 in Nice Alexander Arkhangelsky. “Farewell, 19th Century!”
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How much Minsk is there here? Review of Tatiana Zamirovskaya's book “Eurydice, check if you turned off the gas”
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February 27 in Paris, presentation of Alexei Voinov's book “Winter Without Snow”
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February 26 in London and online discussion on post-Soviet independence and literature
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February 26 in Geneva: Lecture by Alexander Arkhangelsky, “Pushkin—The Ideologist. Defeat as Victory”
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February 26: Online discussion with Elena Fanailova: “Ethical Elections in an Authoritarian Environment”
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Tatyana Zamirovskaya, Candles of the Apocalypse: Emigration, Meaningless Work, and Times of Disaster
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Techno of the Living and the Dead: On Ilya Danishevsky's Novel Damoklov Techno
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February 20 in London: Libris with Liberov meeting, “In Search of Daniil Kharms”
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Evgenia Vezhlyan on Tatiana Zamirovskaya's book “Eurydice, Check If You Turned Off the Gas”
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February 17 in Vienna: presentation of new publications by Babel Publishing House
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Ilya Danishevsky on the novel Damoklov Techno and resistance to violence
Review
Alexander Morozov on Ksenia Buksha's novel Little Paradise
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February 16 in Kfar Saba: a grand literary concert by Dina Rubina
About Dar Prize
Mikhail Shishkin on the program “Not Only About Books” with Nikolai Alexandrov
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May 1–3 in Berlin, Bebelplatz Book Fair
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February 14 in Paris: presentation of Sergei Kuznetsov's novel Moss's Meat Grinder
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February 12 in Berlin: presentation of Andrei Arkhangelsky's book “The Country That Decided Not to Be”
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The Dar Prize logo on book covers
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February 10 in London: Mikhail Fishman and Arkady Ostrovsky. A conversation about the book The Successor.
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February 6 in London Reading Group on Mikhail Lermontov's novel “A Hero of Our Time”
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February 10 in Berlin: presentation of Mikhail Kaluzhsky's book “The Legend of Karagay”
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February 5 in London: presentation of Masha Slonim's book “Returns: A Lighthearted Memoir”
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February 11 in Belgrade, presentation of Andrei Bilzho's book “The Alphabet”
News
We announce the list of finalists for the second season of the independent literary prize “Dar”
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Second season of the Dar Award. Shortlist announcement on January 29
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January 30 in London Roman Liberov, “When Poetry Becomes Destiny.” Osip Mandelstam
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January 28 in Riga, presentation of Anton Dolin's book “50 (fifty)”
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On January 25 in Vancouver, a concert of poems by Dmitry Bykov from the book “Rise!”
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January 22 and 24 in Belgrade and Budva: meetings with Alexander Arkhangelsky, “In Short, a Lecture”
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January 22 in Berlin: presentation of an unknown military archive and photo book Olga Ignatovich: In the Shadow of Big Brother
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January 23–24 in Seattle and Palo Alto Cinderella. A musical fairy tale for adults
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January 20 in Paris: Pushkin: Instructions for Use. Meeting with Alexander Arkhangelsky
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January 18 in Belgrade: Poetry evening with Ksenia Kirillova
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January 17 in Lisbon, presentation of Olesia Gerasimenko's book “Don't Close Your Eyes”
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The fifteenth season of the Nora Gal Award is now open
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January 15 in Berlin: presentation of Franziska Thun-Hohenschein's book about Varlam Shalamov, Writing Life
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January 14 in Berlin: presentation of Anna Winkelmann's book “The Best of All Possible Worlds”
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January 23 in Prague: presentation of the book “I myself became a Russian expatriate”
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January 10 in Berlin: Christmas readings by Zhenya Berezhnaya
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January 8 in Berlin: Presentation of Anna Fischmann's book Day by Day
Review
On Freedom and Literature. Evgenia Vezhlyan
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Book Chronicle: Poetry Books from Israeli Publishers 2023–2024. Anna Golubkova
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December 28 in London: Poetry evening with Evgeny Ostashevsky
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December 21, online, lecture by Lena Kostyuchenko, “Literature of the Ongoing Catastrophe”
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December 23 in Berlin: presentation of Evgenia Nekrasova's book “Kholodova Street”
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December 23 in London: presentation of Boris Filanovsky's book of poetry, Second Music
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December 18 in Berlin: presentation of Gleb Morev's book Joseph Brodsky: Years in the USSR. A Literary Biography
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December 11 in Berlin: presentation of Dinara Rasulova's poetry collection Lostlingual
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December 13 in Vienna: presentation of Ivan Chekalov's novel “Loneliness”
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December 13 in Berlin: presentation of Yegana Jabbarova's new novel Terra Nullius
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December 9 in Berlin: presentation of Petr Turekhin's book Landscapes of Lost Time
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December 10 in Tbilisi: presentation of the novel “500 Million Seconds” by Giorgi Japaridze
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On December 13, the book fair “Books.Blizko” will be held in Madrid.
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On December 6, a lecture entitled “Gaito Gazdanov – Writer and Emigrant” will be held in Tbilisi.
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December 4–6 in Prague: COYS’25 conference for young Slavic scholars
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December 5–6 in Paris, the BazarOff book fair celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Turgenev Library
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Conversation between Viktor Erofeev and Vladimir Sorokin on the author's program “Erofeev Forever”
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December 4 in Berlin: presentation of Mikhail Sokolovsky's book “The Dragon's Skeleton”
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December 3 in Prague: meeting with Viktor Erofeev and presentation of the novel “New Barbarism”
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November 29 in Berlin: presentation of Timothy Garton Ash's book “EUROPE: The Long Road from 1945 to the Present Day”
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The International Poetry Slam will kick off in Budva and Belgrade in November
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Shortlist for the Prosvetitel Award: a brief overview of all nominees from Meduza
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November 29 in Prague: presentation of the novel “The Shield and the Googl”
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November 26 in Prague Sergey Shelin and Marina Koldobskaya. Presentation of the book “Entertaining Russia. 228 Answers”
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Winners of Dmitry Zimin's “Enlightener” awards announced
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November 28 in Riga: presentation of Andrei Bilzho's book “Alphabet 2022” and mini-master class
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November 27 in Berlin: meeting with Olga Romanova and presentation of the book “The Bottle Game”
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The rebirth of Russian literature abroad. Alexander Baunov and Georgy Urushadze. Baunovcast
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November 20 in Lisbon: presentation of Sasha Skochilenko's book My Prison Trip
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Yegana Jabbarova received the Hamburg Literary Prize
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November 19 in Riga: an evening of readings by Yuri Olesha
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November 22 in Berlin: Discussion on “Contemporary Women's* Prose in Search of Home, Language, and Empathy”
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November 17 in Paris: presentation of the French translation of Riva Evstifeeva's “Boarding School Stories”
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November 17 in Berlin: presentation of Sergei Kuznetsov's book Moss's Meat Grinder
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November 14 in Berlin: presentation of Maria Danilova's novel “The Twenty-Sixth”
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Meetings with Vladimir Sorokin in Vilnius and Riga on November 26 and 29
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On November 12, Viktor Shenderovich's stand-up show “They caught a loud bird...” in Berlin
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November 11: Online presentation of Alexander Arkhangelsky's book “Just Classics! An Anti-Textbook on Literature”
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November 9 in Paris: Meeting with Polina Barsukova, “The Poet and Time”
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November 6 in Berlin: presentation of the book “The Northern Route”
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November 2: Meeting of the Babel book club in Vienna, “Emigration—is it good where we are?”
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November 14 in Prague: presentation of Dmitry Petrov's book “Parents' Day”
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Discussion of Lyudmila Ulitskaya's book “The Body of the Soul” at Pushkin House
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Meeting with Ivan Filippov in Berlin on November 6
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On November 18, a lecture on the poetics of “non-place” in Sergei Zhadan's prose will be held in New York.
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November 18, Armen Zakaryan in Berlin: “30 Seconds to Renaissance: The Last Novel of the Middle Ages”
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The Kulturus festival will take place in Prague from October 30 to November 28.
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On November 16, Auditoria Budva will host the second charity book garage sale.
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The rise of machines: a threat to peace? Artificial intelligence vs Putin 2.0. The conscience of AI. Mikhail Epstein
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October 22 in Helsinki, meeting with Ivan Filippov
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October 23, evening event with Linor Goralik at Idiot Books bookstore in London
About Dar Prize
Results of the application collection for the second season of the Dar Prize competition
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October 15-19 Memorial at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025
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Tomas Venclova wins the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature 2025
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October 15 in Haifa: presentation of Dmitry Petrov's book “Parents' Day”
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai.
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October 10–12 in Munich: Echo Lubimovka Festival of New Drama
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October 13 in Vienna, meeting with Demyan Kudryavtsev
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October 24 in Porto: presentation of Sasha Skochilenko's book My Prison Trip
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US book publishers honor Russian dissident house Freedom Letters
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The Booker Prize 2025: shortlist announced
About Dar Prize
Interview with Mikhail Shishkin in Novaya Gazeta Europe on the recognition of the Dar Prize as a foreign agent
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Shortlist announced for PolitProsvet special award
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October 2 in Berlin: Meeting with Viktor Erofeev, “New Barbarism”
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September 25: Online lecture by Yakov Klots on tamizdat
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October 5 and November 8: Dmitry Bykov in New York. Lectures, poetry, and discussions
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Two Hundred Brand New Shiny Cadillacs, the debut novel in English by New York-based prose writer Pavel Lembersky
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October 5 in New York: poetry concert and presentation of Dmitry Bykov's book “The Rise”
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October 3 in Riga: meeting with Olesya Gerasimenko and presentation of the book “Don't Close Your Eyes”
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September 24 in New York City is the launch of Alexander Genis' new book, Ours
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On September 12 in Prague, Vladimir Sorokin will present his new novel The Tale, moderated by Anton Dolin
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For the opening of the second season of the Dar Prize
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September 18 in Berlin big meeting with Vladimir Sorokin
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On August 22, Haim Ben Yaakov's book “Suitcase, Station, Israel” will be launched in Stockholm
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September 20-21, 2025 in Amsterdam for the cultural festival Vidim Fest
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September 12 and 19 in London Pushkin House - Reading Club on Ivan Turgenev's novel “Fathers and Children”
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Berlin International Literature Festival will take place from September 11 to 20, 2025
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The Prague Book Tower Fair will be held from September 12 to 14, 2025
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August 14 in Riga: Presentation of the book: “Suitcase, Train Station, Israel: On the History of Anti-Semitism in the USSR”
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Booker Prize 2025: international longlist of 13 books
About Dar Prize
Results of the first season of the Dar Prize and plans for the second season
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July 17–19 — Philadelphia, Washington, New York. Dmitry Bykov. Lecture “Zone and Territory”: The Strugatskys and Kuvayev 50 Years Later
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On July 10, Olga Romanova's book “The Bottle Game” will be presented in Berlin.
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Russia in search of the apocalypse: Mikhail Epstein on eschatology and war
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Life, AI, and Evolution: A Dialogue Between Mikhail Epstein and Evgeny Kunin
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The Murder of Nastasya Filippovna: Mikhail Epstein and Claude Sonet reconstruct the “missing scene” from The Idiot
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The presentation of Igor Narovsky's book “Laughing Red” in Vilnius on June 29th
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June 27 is the first presentation of Sasha Skochilenko's book “My Prison Trip”
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On June 24, Olga Romanova will present her novel “The Bottle Game” in Prague
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On June 22 in Tbilisi will be held a creative evening in memory of poet Bakhyt Kenzheev and presentation of the collection of poems "Selected. 1972-2024"
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Freedom Letters has published Mikhail Krutikhin's new book The Last Days of the Shah's Iran
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June 22 in Berlin - Book Day by Meduza at Kunstraum Kreuzberg
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June 10 “My Pushkin” - Mikhail Shishkin and Alexey Botvinov as part of the Odessa Classics festival at Schloss Elmau
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The Freedom Books Awards announces the longlist
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Statement by Mikhail Shishkin, Chairman of the Jury of the Literary Prize “Dar”
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Sasha Skochilenko's book My Prison Trip has been published by Freedom Letters
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Freedom Letters Publishing House has published Vladimir Sorokin's new book “Skazka”
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Statement by Mikhail Shishkin, President of the Jury
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Statement of the winner of the contest of the first season of the Literary Prize “Dar”
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Open letter from the winner of the Dar Award of the first season Maria Galina
About Dar Prize
Mikhail Shishkin - chairman of the jury of the independent Literary Prize “Dar” announced the results
News
Winners of the Dar Award of the first season
Book
Pre-order Paul Lembersky's new novel Two Hundred Brand New Shiny Cadillacs
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On May 18, a book auction in Prague to support students and scholars, “Manuscripts Don't Burn 2025”
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On May 16 in Berlin, political analyst Sergei Shelin will present his books, "Entertaining Russia. 228 Answers“ and ”Russia After Putin and Trump"
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The book “Trialogies” by Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Bakstein and Mikhail Epstein has been published by NLO Publishing House
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Freedom Letters has published Alexander Genis's book “Amerika. The New World with an Accent
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Olga Romanova's novel “The Bottle Game” has been released by Freedom Letters publishing house
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In Chicago Journal: Dissident Russian Publisher Freedom Letters Releases J6 Satire The Insurrectionist by Russell Working
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Sorin Brutus in “Novaya Gazeta. Europe” on the new Russian emigration: books by Anton Sekisov and Peter Turekhin
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Supporting authors in Berlin: scholarships for literature in other languages
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“Body Light” by Sergey Soloviev: new book and review of the novel ”Shakti's Smile”
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Olga Balla-Gertman on Alexei Makushinsky's novel Dimitri: A Transhistorical Novel
Review
French newspaper Le Monde talked about Ivan Filippov's novel “The Mouse”
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“There is no meaningless.” About the novel “Lusha” by Karina Coqurell-Ferré - Switzerland for All
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The Age of Zinc. What has Russian censorship achieved in three years? Answered by “Rhinos in the Bookstore” - Novaya Gazeta article
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Dr. Clown Igor Narovsky - about laughter, pain and the power of play on the air of “And Graham Rumbled”
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“ZAO": an excerpt from Svetlana Petriichuk's play about love for convicts - ‘Novaya Gazeta’ piece
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An updated edition of Maria Galina's book “Near the War” has been published
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Eugenia Vezhlyan: “A lot of things need to look for names again”
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Speech by Mikhail Shishkin at the Berlin Bebelplatz Book Fair
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May 1-2 premiere of the play “Tuaregs” by Svetlana Petriichuk in Almaty
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Pack, label, cancel - literary censorship in Russia and emigration in SOTA's piece
About Dar Prize
Anatoly Bely shares Mikhail Shishkin's letter and urges support for the Dar Prize
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On April 17, an online meeting with writer and literary critic Denis Beznosov will be held in the bookstore “Igra Slov” in Vladivostok
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On April 19, Vilnius will host the presentation of Irina Novik's book “I am a Deserter”
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April 15 in Riga Professor Andrei Zubov: lecture and presentation of the book “History of Russia XIX century. Volume 2”
About Dar Prize
Презентация литературной премии «Дар» на Берлинской книжной ярмарке Berlin Bebelplatz
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From May 1 - acceptance of works for the Mark Aldanov International Literary Prize. Mark Aldanov
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Sergei Savelyev's book “Troyan. The Gulag of Our Time": reading in Berlin on April 5 and publication in Novaya Gazeta
About Dar Prize
The people are worried about whether the tsar is a real tsar. Writer Mikhail Shishkin
Review
Рецензия «2+2»: Домик няни, Кабиасы, Эйзенштейн и СПИД
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Review of Riva Evstifeeva's book “Internat Stories” - Maya Kucherskaya on Pain, Truth and Hope
About Dar Prize
Mikhail Shishkin on the Dar Prize, the Russian language, and resistance to the regime.
Event
April 4 in Berlin presentation of the Literary Prize Dar at the Berlin Book Fair - Berlin Bebelplatz
Review
Nikolai Alexandrov's review of Sergei Shelin's book “Entertaining Russia”
Review
Dmitry Bykov on his book “Arc”. Video
Event
April 4 at the Bebelplatz Berlin Book Fair Presentation of Irina Novik's book “I am a Deserter”, Freedom Letters Publishing House
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On April 6 at the Bebelplatz Berlin Book Fair, the presentation of Ivan Filippov's new book “Shadow” (Freedom Letters)!
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Vidim Books published the book “Troyan. The Gulag of Our Time” by Sergey Saveliev
About Dar Prize
Independent Literary Prize “Dar”: “Now is the time to create a new type of culture in the Russian language”
Review
The Impossibility of Balance: a review of Lesha Palkic's novel The Gopac Equation
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A large collection of Bakhyt Kenzheev's “Selected. 1972-2024”. Bakhyt Kenzheev, Sergey Gandlevsky
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Dmitry Bykov's book “VZ” has been published by Freedom Letters publishing house
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Freedom Letters publishes Andrei Kostinsky's book “My Lost House”
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How the Kremlin “denazified” the GDR: An excerpt from Alexander Genis's book “Fascisms,” published by The Insider
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Freedom Letters has published a book by renowned journalist and political analyst Sergei Shelin, titled “Entertaining Russia. 228 Answers.”
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Freedom Letters has released Ivan Filippov's new novel, The Shadow
About Dar Prize
Michael Epstein on the Dar Prize. This is the gift of Freedom
About Dar Prize
Ivan Vyrypayev on the Dar Prize for Literature. Literature is possible even in conflict with language
Book
Freedom Letters publishes Mikhail Epstein's book “Before the End of History? The Edge of the Russian Anti-World
About Dar Prize
Maria Galina, Nikolay Kononov and Mikhail Shishkin about the Dar Prize in an interview with 3Sat
Event
The Berlin Bebelplatz book fair will be held for the first time in Berlin from April 3 to 6
About Dar Prize
Nikolai Alexandrov: “Literature is under threat”
Review
It was you who chose to kill. Olga Balla-Gertman's review of Ilya Danishevsky's book “Damocles Techno”
Book
Freedom Letters Publishers has released six new paper books
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On March 13 in London, writer Oleg Radzinsky and journalist Arkady Ostrovsky - Public Talk - presentation of the book “Penitential Days”
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On March 13, the presentation of Linor Goralik's book “Bobo” will take place in Amsterdam
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On March 6, Anna Narinskaya will present her father Anatoly Naiman's latest book, Blaha Fly, in Berlin
Review
Igor Pomerantsev: essayism, language and memory - My First Bomb Shelter. A new word order.
About Dar Prize
Poet Georgi Borisov joined the jury of the award against Putin's regime
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March 6 in Nice to meet with writer Mikhail Shishkin
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On February 26 in Berlin, a meeting with Viktor Yerofeev, which will include the presentation of his acclaimed novel “The Great Gopnik”
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February 28 in Yerevan meeting with poet, prose writer and literary columnist Denis Beznosov
Book
Vidim Books has opened pre-orders for Lyosha Palkic's book The Gopac Equation
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Vidim Books has started pre-orders for Dmitry Savelyev's new book “Troyan. The Gulag of Our Time”
Book
The Sefer publishing house published Valery Genkin's book “When not Elena”
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On February 20 in Podgorica, an evening dedicated to Lev Rubinstein and his unique genre of “card records”
Event
February 17 in Tbilisi meeting with Linor Goralik
Review
Igor Mandel's review of “Love That Moves...” by Michael Epstein, in Secret Paths Magazine
Review
Between eros and logos. About Mikhail Epstein's book “Memory of the Body: Stories about Love”
Event
February 27 in Basel Maria Stepanova - Questions of Time
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February 17 in Paris, a conversation about the poets of the “unnoticed generation” with Roma Liberov
About Dar Prize
Alexander Morozov on the Dar Prize. New names beyond the influence of the Kremlin
About Dar Prize
Alexander Delfinov on the Dar Prize. Books to be read
News
How reading changes the brain: scientific findings on the impact of literature
About Dar Prize
Then & Now Podcast with Teresa Cherfas - Mikhail Shishkin on the Dar Prize for Literature
About Dar Prize
Grigory Chkhartishvili on the Dar Prize: supporting free literature
Event
On February 24, the University of Geneva will host a meeting with writer Nikolai Kononov
Book
“Love in Turbulence” by Dima Zitzer is Medusa Publishing's first book for parents
About Dar Prize
How to preserve Russian literature under Putin? Mikhail Shishkin on the Dar Prize and the crisis of culture
About Dar Prize
The Dar Prize: what it is and who has been shortlisted
News
We congratulate the shortlisted finalists for the Dar Literary Prize!
Book
FRESH Verlag has published Mikhail Nemtsev's book “Clarity and Joy” - a collection of short philosophical essays.
Book
FRESH Verlag publishing house published the book by Alexander Motsar “Only Cacti Survive in War. Notes from Bucha”.
Review
Who kills children? Ilya Danishevsky - about the book “Damocles Techno”
Book
The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature
Review
The Temptation of Extreme Positions. Sorin Brutus talks about the successes and missteps of a book by one of the most brilliant Russian-language writers of our time, Dmitry Bykov
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A new bookstore Auditoria has opened in Belgrade!
Book
Dmitry Bykov's new book “Demon Defeated” has been published by Freedom Letters publishing house
Book
Linor Goralik's book “Bobo” has been published by Vidim Books
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Freedom Letters has published the book “Victory Will Be Ours”
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Director Andrei Khrzhanovsky in Novaya Gazeta about Greg Miller's novel The Kuleshov Effect
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Eduard Lukoyanov on Lev Rubinstein's new book The Secret Passage for the Gorky publication
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An interview with Alexander Gavrilov, founder of Vidim Books, was published in the Novosti-26 Telegram channel
Book
Freedom Letters publishes Sergei Shelin's book “Entertaining Russia”
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The new season of Linor Goralik's podcast audiobook, The Chitka, has begun to be released
Book
Linor Goralik's book “Bobo” is being released by Vidim Books
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A new book by Lev Rubinstein, 'The Secret Move', will be released soon
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Mikhail Kaluzhsky's book 'Several Stories' is being published by 'Babel' Bookstore Publishing
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A haiku book by Stanislav Belsky has been published by Red Moon Press
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Freedom Letters is publishing Greg Blake Miller's novel The Kuleshov Effect
Review
Critic Liza Birger on the novel '(Not) About the War' by Zhenya Berezhnaya
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Interview with Lyubov Machina, founder of Fresh Verlag, in the Gorky magazine
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Evgeniya Vezhlyan for Slova Vne Sebya on Maria Stepanova's book 'Focus'.
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A new issue of the literary and art magazine “Zerkalo” has been published
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“Novaya Gazeta” about Maria Makeeva's literary debut novel ”Bears Ears. Amber Man.”
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The Gorky publisher and co-founder of Falanster bookstore Boris Kupriyanov wrote about Olga Morozova
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Zhenya Berkowitz's book, “Pets,” has been released
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A new issue of ROAR, the newsletter of anti-war and oppositional culture, has been published
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Novaya Gazeta Europa published a review of Alexei Navalny's book “Patriot”
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The Gorky magazine published a text in memory of Vladimir Mikushevich
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Slova vne sebya Media has published an excerpt of Zhenya Bercovici's new book, “Pet”
Review
Demagog magazine has published a review by Fedi Otroschenko of Michael Eisenberg's new book of poems, Don't Touch Us
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The Gorky magazine published texts in memory of Arkady Shtypel and Shamshad Abdullayev
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Freedom Letters has published Ali Haitlina's book Four Days to Spring
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A new chapter of Zinovy Zinik's novel Stolen Handwriting has been published in Demagogue magazine
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In an interview with Radio Prague International, Eugene Demenok talks about his new book “Leaving Can't Stay. From the Burliuk and Delaunay Family Correspondence”
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Anna Narinskaya in The Moscow Times about Zhenya Berkovich's new book “Pets”
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The Gorky has a review of Anton Sekisov's new book “The Resort”
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Critic Lisa Birger talks about Konstantin Zarubin's novel Our Heart Beats for All
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The Wiener Slawistischer Almanach published a review by Eugene Koziura of the book “Poems of Golubchik-Gostov” published by Babel Bookstore Publishing House (Tel Aviv)
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“Understanding Misunderstanding.” Mikhail Edelstein about Anna Narinskaya's book “Nothing Like This” for DA MAGAZINE.
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Especially for Words Beyond Myself, Lev Oborin wrote a review of Anatoly Naiman's posthumous collection of poems
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Specially for Meduza, writer and journalist Mikhail Zygar read Alexei Navalny's autobiography
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024
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Freedom Letters publishes new editions of Yuli Dubov's novels
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The book “Territory of Memory” by Denis Beznosov is released
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The novel “(Not) About War” by Ukrainian writer Zhenya Berezhnaya is published by Meduza Publishing House
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Gorky published a review of Maria Stepanova's novel “Focus”
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The publishing house Vidim Books has released a limited edition of Viktor Shenderovich's book “Devyanoska”
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The Vidim Books publishing house released Boris Belenkin's book “Memorial”.Taken Home”
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Sasha Filipenko's Writer's Stand-Up
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Books by Peter Aleshkovsky and Maria Galina have been published by Mikhail Greenberg Library Publishing House
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Konstantin Zarubin's novel “Our Heart Beats for All” is published by Meduza Publishing House
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Greetings from “EU Public Diplomacy - Russia”
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Nasha Gazeta (Switzerland) about the Dar Prize
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“We need to give literature in the Russian language a new life”. Interview with Mikhail Shishkin, Chairman of the Dar Prize Jury.
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Declaration on the Establishment of the Literary Award "Dar"
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Welcome Letter from PEN International
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Ibicus Press is opening pre-orders for two new releases.
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The collection of poems "Promise" by Dmitry Vedenyapin has been released by Éditions Tourgueneff.
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The winner is selected by a jury vote and receives a grant for translation into foreign languages.
The award jury comprises professional writers, authors, prominent figures from culture, science, and education, as well as public personalities
Mikhail Shishkin
Writer, Jury Chairman
Polina Barskova
Poet
Giulia Marcucci
Slavist, translator
Dmitry Kuzmin
Poet, translator, publisher
Andrey Bilzho
Artist
Mikhail Epstein
Philologist, philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, essayist
Luba Jurgenson
Writer, slavicist, translator
Vladimir Jurowski
Musician, conductor
Grigory Chkhartishvili
Writer
Georgi Borissov
Poet, translator, publisher
Carina Cóckrell-Ferré
teacher, publicist, novelist
Demyan Kudryavtsev
Poet, media manager
Sasha Filipenko
Writer
Artemy Troitsky
Сritic, academic, broadcaster
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Writer
Vitaly Komar
Artist
Vitaly Mansky
Film director, president of the IDFF Artdocfest
Roma Liberov
Film director, producer, the founder of the We Exist! Foundation. (UK)
Sergey Nikolaevich
Journalist, theater critic, writer
Ilya Vinitsky
Literarty scholar
Sergey Kuznetsov
Writer, journalist, educator
Armen Zakharyan
Philologist, lecturer, author of the literary project "Armen and Fyodor"
Andrey Zubov
Historian, religion scholar
Anton Dolin
Film critic
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Writer
Alexander Genis
writer, essayist, broadcaster, cultural critic
Ivan Vyrypaev
Film and theater director, playwright, screenwriter, producer, actor
Tomas Venclova
Poet, essayist
Dmitry Bykov
Poet, writer, journalist, literary critic
Mikhail Edelstein
Literary scholar
Evgeniya Vezhlyan
Poet, literary critic, essayist, literary scholar and sociologist of literature
Elizaveta Birger-Eroğlu
Philologist, translator, literary critic, curator of cultural events, and manager of the bookstore "Poltory Komnaty" in Istanbul
Nikolai Aleksandrov
Cultural and literary scholar, essayist, journalist
Ulrich Schmid
Historian, cultural history of Eastern Europe
Gervaise Tassis
Slavist, the University of Geneva
Ilma Rakusa
Writer, translator, literary critic
Georges Nivat
Slavist, historian of ideas
Jean-Philippe Jaccard
Literary scholar, the University og Geneva
Tamara Eydelman
Author of the channel History "Lessons with Tamara Eidelman"
Sergey Gandlevsky
Poet, prose writer
Irina Scherbakova
Historian, chairman of the board Memorial-Zukunft (Berlin)
Elena Fanailova
Poet
Rosemarie Tietze
Translator
Vera Pavlova
Poet, librettist, performer, musician
Mikhail Gigolashvili
Writer, artist, publicist, literary scholar
Andrey Makarevich
Musician, artist, poet, writer
Mark Lipovetsky
Philologist, literary scholar
Oleg Lekmanov
Philologist, writer
Ilya Kukulin
Cultural historian, cultural sociologist, literary critic
Dmitry Krymov
Theater and film director
Yuli Gugolev
Poet
Ksenia Larina
Journalist, critic, television and radio presenter
Sergei Solovyov,
poet, writer
Kulturus
European Commission
Forum of Free Culture SlovoNovo
Mikhail Shishkin
Writer, Jury Chairman
Polina Barskova
Poet
Giulia Marcucci
Slavist, translator
Dmitry Kuzmin
Poet, translator, publisher
Andrey Bilzho
Artist
Luba Jurgenson
Writer, slavicist, translator
Georgi Borissov
Poet, translator, publisher
Carina Cóckrell-Ferré
teacher, publicist, novelist
Demyan Kudryavtsev
Poet, media manager
Vitaly Komar
Artist
Sergey Nikolaevich
Journalist, theater critic, writer
Ilya Vinitsky
Literarty scholar
Tamara Eydelman
Author of the channel History "Lessons with Tamara Eidelman"
Sergey Gandlevsky
Poet, prose writer
Irina Scherbakova
Historian, chairman of the board Memorial-Zukunft (Berlin)
Elena Fanailova
Poet
Rosemarie Tietze
Translator
Vera Pavlova
Poet, librettist, performer, musician
Mikhail Gigolashvili
Writer, artist, publicist, literary scholar
Andrey Makarevich
Musician, artist, poet, writer
Mark Lipovetsky
Philologist, literary scholar
Oleg Lekmanov
Philologist, writer
Ilya Kukulin
Cultural historian, cultural sociologist, literary critic
Dmitry Krymov
Theater and film director
Yuli Gugolev
Poet
Ksenia Larina
Journalist, critic, television and radio presenter
Sergei Solovyov,
poet, writer
Mikhail Shishkin
Writer, Jury Chairman
Ulrich Schmid
Historian, cultural history of Eastern Europe
Gervaise Tassis
Slavist, the University of Geneva
Ilma Rakusa
Writer, translator, literary critic
Georges Nivat
Slavist, historian of ideas
Jean-Philippe Jaccard
Literary scholar, the University og Geneva
Mikhail Epstein
Philologist, philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, essayist
Vladimir Jurowski
Musician, conductor
Grigory Chkhartishvili
Writer
Sasha Filipenko
Writer
Artemy Troitsky
Сritic, academic, broadcaster
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Writer
Vitaly Mansky
Film director, president of the IDFF Artdocfest
Roma Liberov
Film director, producer, the founder of the We Exist! Foundation. (UK)
Sergey Kuznetsov
Writer, journalist, educator
Armen Zakharyan
Philologist, lecturer, author of the literary project "Armen and Fyodor"
Andrey Zubov
Historian, religion scholar
Anton Dolin
Film critic
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Writer
Alexander Genis
writer, essayist, broadcaster, cultural critic
Ivan Vyrypaev
Film and theater director, playwright, screenwriter, producer, actor
Tomas Venclova
Poet, essayist
Dmitry Bykov
Poet, writer, journalist, literary critic
Kulturus
European Commission
Forum of Free Culture SlovoNovo
Mikhail Edelstein
Literary scholar
Evgeniya Vezhlyan
Poet, literary critic, essayist, literary scholar and sociologist of literature
Elizaveta Birger-Eroğlu
Philologist, translator, literary critic, curator of cultural events, and manager of the bookstore "Poltory Komnaty" in Istanbul
Nikolai Aleksandrov
Cultural and literary scholar, essayist, journalist
What Are the Objectives of the Award?
The primary goal of the Award is to support authors and promote Russian-language literature worldwide. We welcome all who write and read in Russian, regardless of citizenship or place of residence. We aim to foster a Russian-language culture free from political and imperial influences.
How Is the Award Process Conducted?
The Award is given annually. The jury votes, with each member selecting between one and three works. The winner is the author whose work receives the most votes. Additionally, a reader’s vote (Crowdfunding) is conducted on the Award’s website, where readers can vote for authors and support them financially.
What Awards Are Provided?
The winner of the Award receives a grant to translate the work into English, French and German. Also, as part of the reader's vote, all collected funds are transferred to the authors for whom the readers voted.
When Does the Submission Period for the Competition Start and End?
Прием заявок на конкурс второго сезона премии начнется 1 сентября 2025-го и закончится 15-го октября 2025 года.
When will the list of finalists and winners be announced?
В январе 2026 года Совет Экспертов объявит список финалистов. Читательское голосование начинается в тот же месяц. В феврале-апреле члены жюри читают книги-финалисты, а победителей Премии и читательского голосования объявят в мае 2026 года.
What are the conditions for the nomination of a book for the award
В конкурсе второго сезона могут принимать участия произведения, изданные в 2024-м году. Произведения (роман, повесть, сборники рассказов и эссе, документальная проза), вышедшие отдельными изданиями или опубликованные в журналах. Номинировать на премию имеют право как издательства и редакции журналов, так и сами писатели или третьи лица (с согласия и письменного подтверждения автора). Тексты подаются к рассмотрению в электронном виде. Премия «Дар» открыта для всех авторов. Учитывая главные цели премии: продвижение современной русскоязычной литературы за пределами РФ и характер самого вознаграждение (грант на перевод) - приоритет будет отдаваться авторам, чьи произведения ранее не переводились на английский, французский и немецкий языки.
