The winner of the Dar Prize for the first season was Maria Galina
With the book NEAR THE WAR. Odessa. February 2022 - lute 2023. According to the rules, the author had to receive a grant to translate the book into English, French and German.
Maria Galina declined the award. Read the author's statement
Mikhail Shishkin, Chairman of the Jury, commented on the decision: in the next season of the Awards, the following will be selected the two winning books. Statement by Mikhail Shishkin
The winner of the first season's reader's vote was Sergei Solovyov,
Each of the authors receives the amount collected by readers and listed on the website.
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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, journalistMembers of the Jury
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Mikhail Shishkin
Writer, Jury Chairman
Polina Barskova
Poet
Andrey Bilzho
Artist
Georgi Borissov
Poet, translator, publisher
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
Oleg Radzinsky
A former investment banker turned writer
Vera Pavlova
Poet, librettist, performer, musician
Polina Osetinskaya
Pianist
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
Kirill Kobrin
Writer, historian, editor
Andrey Zorin
Literary and cultural historian
Alexander Dolinin
Literary scholar
Alexander Delphinov
Poet, journalist, spoken word artist
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Mikhail Shishkin
Writer, Jury Chairman
Mikhail N. 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
Svetlana Alexievich
Writer
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
Kulturus
European Commission
Forum of Free Culture SlovoNovo
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