LiteratuRentgen is the Russian poetry prize awarded in 2005-2011 and the poetry festival associated with it, held in Yekaterinburg from 2002 to 2011. The organizers of the award and festival were the poets Elena Suntsova and Vasily Chepelev .
The award included two nominations. In the main nomination, a young poet (not older than 25 years old) who was living outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg was awarded, her material content amounted to 3333 US dollars. In the last year of the award’s work, the restriction on the place of residence of applicants for the award was lifted (due to the fact that the main competitor of LiteratuRentgen, the Debut award , changed the rules and raised the age threshold from 25 to 35 years old) [1] . In the additional Fixage nomination, the prize was awarded for contributions to the development of Russian poetry outside of both capitals.
A long list of applicants for the main award nomination was compiled at the suggestion of several dozen experts (editors, publishers, critics) who nominated each candidate. Then, the same nominees voted on all candidates, and ten authors with the most votes made up a short list. From the authors of the short list by voting, the best selected was another composition of experts, which also included prominent poets, critics, philologists; the winner of this vote became a laureate and, together with the owners of the second and third results, was invited to Yekaterinburg to participate in the festival of the same name. Among the specialists who participated in the selection of the LiteratuRentgen prize winner over the years, there were, in particular, Bakhyt Kenzheev , Vitaliy Kalpidi , Alexander Kabanov , Alexander Ilichevsky , Yuri Orlitsky , Ilya Kukulin , Danila Davydov [1] . The selection method used by the award was rated as the most productive for working with young authors and was adopted by the later Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize [2] .
Following the results of the seven-year work of the award, an anthology of the same name was edited by Elena Suntsova [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 D. Kuzmin . Generation of Debut or Transit Generation? // " New World ", 2012, No. 3.
- ↑ Dmitry Kuzmin and Elena Glazova - about the prize for young Russian poets // Latvijas Sabiedriskie mediji, 12/18/2016.
- ↑ Poems of Perm poets were included in the anthology of the LiteraryRentgen Prize // Literary Journal Veshch, 11/26/2012.
Links
- LiteratuRentgen Prize on the New Map of Russian Literature website
- Festival "LiteratuRentgen" on the site " A new map of Russian literature "
- Literature X-ray. Anthology / Compiled by Elena Suntsova, foreword by Dmitry Kuzmin. - New York, Ailuros Publishing, 2012 .-- 208 p.
ISBN 978-1-938781-04-9