ELKOST International literary agency - Ludmila Ulitskaya and Mikhail Khodorkovsky share a literary prize

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A Russian Znamya magazine awards a correspondence between Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a Russian Booker Prize winning author Lyudmila Ulitskaya with its GLOBE yearly prize. Znamya published a series of letters between Khodorkovsky and Lyudmila Ulitskaya in its November 2009 issue. The annual prize, which the literary journal has been awarding for more than 20 years, was presented at a ceremony in Moscow on Wednesday.

"We thought "Dialogues with Lyudmila Ulitskaya" was a very serious, a very interesting op-ed piece," Natalya Ivanova, Znamya first deputy chief editor, told RIA Novosti.

The Znamya monthly literature magazine has been published since 1931.

Photo: The daughter of fallen Russian oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Anastasia, (2nd R) speaks after receiving a literary prize, won by her father, while the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya (L) listens, during an awarding ceremony in Moscow January 13, 2010. © Reuters

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