Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award

The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award is an annual all-Russian literary award that was founded in 2003 by the Leo Tolstoy Museum Estate and Samsung Electronics. It is presented to the best traditional-style novel written in Russian or translated into Russian.

The award maintains classical literature traditions by commemorating the authors of outstanding works and also supports contemporary literarure by noting talented writers. These two aspects allow the award to remain balanced and harmonious.

, the award categories are:

Modern Russian Prose Foreign Fiction New Adult / Youth Personality of the Year Missed Masterpiece Readers' Choice Yasnaya Polyana School of Criticism Review

Modern Russian Prose and Foreign Fiction are considered the two most esteemed categories by the award maker. Most of the categories go through multiple stages of decision, including a longlist and shortlist by a jury. The Readers' Choice is determined by popular vote online.

Background Originally, until 2005, there were only two categories: an Outstanding Work of Russian Fiction and an Outstanding Debut in Russian Fiction. These were renamed Contemporary Classic and 21st Century, respectively. In 2012 (the award's 10-year anniversary), another category was added to the award – Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, named after Leo Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels.

A fourth category, Foreign Fiction, was added in 2015, and the fifth, Readers' Choice, in 2016. In 2017, Contemporary Classic was renamed Contemporary Russian Fiction, the Event category was added, and Childhood, Boyhood, Youth abandoned. Notably, 21st Century was never provided again.

The award's fund doubled since 2010. Currently, it amounts to , making it the largest endowment of any literary award in Russia. The Readers' Choice winner is awarded with a theme trip to South Korea, presented by Samsung. All winners receive a special statuette.Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award Regulations. (in Russian).

Recent years In October 2023, the jury announced the winners of the 21st awards, renaming Event to Personality of the Year, and adding a category for Missed Masterpiece, meaning a work that flew under Russian critics' radar until a recent translation made it more notable. The monetary fund of was distributed to the honorees:

the winner of the Modern Russian Prose award receives , while is divided between the finalists. a sum of goes to the Foreign Fiction laureate, while the work's translator gets . another is given to the Personality of the Year. the remaining goes to the translator of the Missed Masterpiece. the Readers' Choice winner is awarded with a theme trip to South Korea, presented by Samsung.

In October 2024, the jury is set to announce the winners of the 22nd awards. A category called "Youth", which aims to highlight works targeting young adults, has been added. The longlists and shortlists were announced between May and September 2024. The monetary fund of will be distributed to the honorees:

the winner of the Modern Russian Prose award receives , while is divided between the finalists. a sum of goes to the Foreign Fiction laureate, while the work's translator gets . the winner of New Adult / Youth gets another is given to the Personality of the Year. the remaining goes to the translator of the Missed Masterpiece. additionally, the Readers' Choice winner is awarded with and a theme trip to South Korea, presented by Samsung.

The jury The jury, which consists of famous writers, critics and literature experts, select authors whose works preserve the traditions of classic literature and, at the same time, represent the relevant trends of modern Russian and foreign literature.

Yasnaya Polyana jury members include famous Russian writers, literary critics and public figures. there are:

Vladimir Tolstoy– chairman of the jury, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on cultural matters, journalist; Pavel Basinsky – journalist, writer, literary critic; Aleksey Varlamov – novelist, scholar of 20th-century Russian literature; Eugene Vodolazkin – literary critic, writer, winner of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award; Valentin Kurbatov – writer, essayist, literary critic; Vladislav Otroshenko – Russian writer and essayist, winner of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award.Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award — The Jury. (in Russian)

Winners Source: 2003 — 2005 YearOutstanding WorkOutstanding Debut2003Viktor LikhonosovVladislav Otroshenko2004Timur ZulfikanovAnton Utkin2005Anatolij KimAlexander Yakovlev

2006 — 2011 YearContemporary Classics21st Century2006Vasily BelovAlexey Ivanov2007Leonid BorodinZakhar Prilepin2008Petr KrasnovLjudmila Saraskina2009Vladimir LichutinVassilij Golovanov2010Mikhail KuraevMikhail Tarkovsky2011Fazil IskanderYelena Katishonok

2012 — 2014 YearContemporary Classics21st CenturyChildhood, Boyhood, Youth2012Valentin RasputinEvgenij KasimovAndrey Dmitriev2013Yury BondarevEvgenij VodolazkinYury Nechiporenko2014Boris EkimovArsen TitovRoman Senchin

2015 — 2016 YearContemporary Classics21st CenturyChildhood, Boyhood, YouthForeign FictionReaders' Choice2015Andrei BitovGuzel YakhinaValery BylinskyRuth Ozeki, Ekaterina Ilyina (translator)Guzel Yakhina2016Vladimir MakaninNarine Abgaryan, Alexander GrigorenkoMarina NefyodovaOrhan Pamuk, Apollinaria Avrutina (translator)Narine Abgaryan

Since 2017 YearContemporary Russian FictionForeign FictionEventReaders' Choice2017Andrei RubanovMario Vargas Llosa, Kirill Korkonosenko (translator)"LiteraTula" Children's Book FairOleg Yermakov2018Olga SlavnikovaAmos Oz, Victor Radutski (translator)Story of One Appointment (film)Maria Stepanova2019Sergei SamsonovHernán Rivera Letelier, Darya Sinitsina (translator)The Glass Bead Game (literary TV show)Grigori Sluzhitel2020Evgeniy ChizovPatricia Duncker, Alexandra Borisenko and Victor Sonkin (translators)Oleg PavlovSasha Filipenko2021German SadulaevJulian Barnes, Dmitry Simanovsky and Sergei Polotovsky (translators)Каждый день сначала. Валентин Распутин и Валентин Курбатов: диалог длиною в сорок летMarina Stepnova2022Dmitry DanilovYu Hua, Yuliya Dreyzis (translator)Islam Hanipaev

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