ELKOST International literary agency - Igor Vishnevetsky won the NOS literary award for his LENINGRAD novel

http://lenta.ru/news/2012/02/03/nose/

Today it was announced in Moscow that Igor Vishnevetsky won the prestigious 2011 NOS literary award for his LENINGRAD novel dedicated to the Siege of Leningrad during the WWII.

Vishnevetsky’s Leningrad is a masterful mixture of prosaic and poetical texts, excerpts from private letters and diaries, quotes from newspapers and NKVD internal documents, in which the author fuses rough documentary with philosophical grotesque and depicts the Siege as a moment of truth for Leningrad artists and white-collars.

The NOS Annual Literature Prize was founded in 2010 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation to discover and support new trends in contemporary Russian fiction. The Prize winner receives an award of 700 000 roubles (around $25.000).

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Main heroes of Makanin's 1987 novel He and She (Odin i odna) are "shestidesiatniki" Gennadii Goloshchekov and Ninel', two idealistic people who were involved in student politics during the 1950s, and who could never bring themselves to kow-tow to the regime, people who realized that ‘the intellect and conformism arc two incompatible things, Salieri’. They are depicted as innately honourable, but the harsh spotlight of Makanin’s prose shows them also to be pathetic and even farcical. Ninel' is always bathetically tormented by a sense of guilt over trifles, usually involving her co-workers. Gennadii is the kind of man who gets out of bed late at night to rescue a stranger whom his own drinking companion, Daev, confessed he had abandoned in a snowdrift. Gennadii the knight-errant then finds himself in the snowdrift — pushed in by an ungrateful rescuee who...

Igor Vishnevetsky won the NOS literary award for his LENINGRAD novel - 03/02/2012

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He and She, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1987)