The long list for the Pushkin Lyceum literary prize has been published

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MOSCOW, April 25The long list of the VIII season of the Lyceum literary award named after Alexander Pushkin included 111 works, said the chairman of the award’s expert council, writer and literary critic Roman Senchin.
““The work was difficult: out of almost 500 applicants, it was necessary to select just over 100 from a long list,” he said at a press conference.

The long list in the Poetry nomination included 50 authors, including Ksenia August (Kaliningrad), Alexander Egorov (Irkutsk), Anastasia Kamenskaya (Tver), Konstantin Komarov (Ekaterinburg), Alexandra Plakhova (Oryol), Tatyana Stoyanova (Moscow) and other.

In the “Prose” nomination, 61 applicants were selected: Elena Antipova (Nizhny Novgorod), Maria Artemenko (Votkinsk), Roma Dekabrev (Moscow), Andrey Dudko (Minsk), Nikita Ivanov (St. Petersburg), Pavel Pushkin (Tyumen), Peter Vorotyntsev (Prague), Anastasia Atayan (Tokyo) and others.
The average age of the participants was 28 years. In total, in 2024, 2,052 applications were submitted for the Lyceum Prize from authors from 229 cities in Russia and 28 countries, the organizers of the prize recalled.
The expert council included prose writer, literary critic Roman Senchin, editor Ilya Kochergin, translator Vadim Muratkhanov, literary critic Elena Pogorelaya, poet and prose writer Mikhail Popov, literary commentator Anastasia Shevchenko.
< br />The award finalists will be announced on May 14, and the winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on June 6 on the Main Stage of the Red Square book festival.
The Lyceum Prize was established in 2017 with the aim of finding and encouraging young talented authors. In each nomination, three prizes are awarded: for first place 1.2 million rubles, for second place — 700 thousand rubles, for third place — 500 thousand rubles.