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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
Book
New Books from Freedom Letters: Genis, Kononov, and Prose about War, Disappearance, and Freedom
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Thorns in the Ashes: Testimony as Form. On Alexander Motsar’s Book
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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
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The Camera Shutter. On Yevgeny Feldman’s Book
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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
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Nothing but the Heart: A Theology of Perplexity. On Grisha Prorokov’s Novel
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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
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Georgy Urushadze on Books, Censorship, and Freedom Letters Publishing
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The Topography of Trauma: A Parabolic Novel about the Impossibility of Paradise. On Ksenia Buksha’s Novel A Little Paradise
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What to Read? Literary Critics Discuss the Shortlist of the Dar Prize, Season 2. Episode 2
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Поэтика распада: о прозе Игоря Белодеда
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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
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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"
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The Anatomy of a Survivor: A Novel-Epitaph for an Era. On Yuri Troitsky’s Novel Shatz
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Preface to the project The Word to Claude. Ways of Evaluating Literary Works
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The winner is selected by a jury vote and receives a grant for translation into foreign languages.
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.
