Review of Russian children's literary awards. Prizes and competitions in children's literature Award winning books

14.12.2017

The eighth season of "Kniguru" unexpectedly turned out to be animal - that's what the experts of the competition called it: the texts of all the winners are dedicated to animals.

The first two places in the 2017 season were taken by "newcomers" - these names are still unknown to most readers, and the third one is well known.

“Children’s literature has a decisive role, - commented the expert Shamil Idiatullin. - The book remains the most versatile tool that turns a human cub into a human. Literature should correspond to the era. If the reader encounters a text not of its time, he does not consider it honest - and we lose the reader. Then we will not raise a person who will take a big step for humanity. And if a child or teenager does not learn from literature, he can only learn from his own example. It's not always safe. And “Kniguru” in this sense has an ecological niche: book writers are able to enter from the side where the reader does not expect, pull him along and start talking with him on complex and serious topics.”

1 place took Lilia Volkova (Moscow), story "Under the constellation of Stray Dogs" .

2nd place – Antonina Malysheva (Novosibirsk), story "Cat of Oblivion" .

3rd place –Stanislav Vostokov (Moscow region), story "Young brother".

Experts noted the most active readers who took part in the voting. This Irina Tumanova and Anastasia Avramenko from Yekaterinburg. It turned out that the readers study in the same gymnasium, and the school librarian told them about the competition.

The winner of the competition for the best review was Polina Rutkovskaya from Petrozavodsk.

In 2017, 613 texts were submitted to the competition. The finalists of the Eighth Season were authors from Veliky Novgorod, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kiev, Moscow, Cheboksary, Moscow Region, Novosibirsk, Omsk, St. Petersburg and Yakutsk.

All texts of the Short List are posted on the website http://kniguru.info and are available for free reading.

Lilia Volkova, "Under the constellation of Stray Dogs"
Muscovite Sashka meets a red-haired Letka in the south, who rescues dogs all over the district. Friendship does not have time to develop: Sasha is taken home due to family problems. Letka considers the boy a traitor - but then they take her away too. Also because of family problems and also home - to Moscow.

Antonina Malysheva, Oblivion Cat
A white cat lives in a small village. Whoever he looks at, everyone forgets. Children forget teachers and classmates, parents forget their children. A forgotten person becomes superfluous in life: he is a stranger to everyone, no one needs him. He loses his family, home, friends - everything that life consists of. Gosha, the hero of Antonina Malysheva's story, along with other forgotten people, is trying to return to a life where he is remembered and loved. And for this you need to find a white cat and unravel its mystery.

Stanislav Vostokov, "Brother-Yunnat"
It is impossible for an ordinary eighth grader to get into the savannah or jungle to observe and study elephants, lions and other exotic animals. But you can come to the city zoo as a young naturalist! Pelicans grunt, seagulls burst out laughing, poisonous gyurza escapes from the bag - Stas-yunnat goes to work! Yes, no one will be bored here ...

14.04.2017

The name of the winner of the Memorial Prize Astrid Lindgren (ALMA) has become known. 2017 He became the German artist and writer Wolf Erlbruch (Wolf Erlbruch; b. 1949), author of the books "Bear's Miracle", "Leonard", "Thrush Frau Mayer" and others.

The winners of the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth for 2016 have been announced. Among them are the classic of Russian animation Leonid Shvartsman, the famous film director Vladimir Grammatikov and the children's poet Anastasia Orlova.

02.06.2016

Among the winners of the award are director Konstantin Bronzit, author of the Oscar-nominated 2016 cartoon We Can't Live Without Space, poet Yuri Entin, artistic director of the Russian State Academic Youth Theater Alexei Borodin and other cultural figures.

Text of the Decree "On awarding the prizes of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth in 2015" reads:

“To award the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth in 2015 and to confer the honorary title of laureate of the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth:

Borodin Alexey Vladimirovich, artistic director of the federal state budgetary institution of culture "Russian State Academic Youth Theatre", - for his contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art;

Boyarsky Alexander Ionovich, producer, Bronzit Konstantin Eduardovich, animation film director, Selyanov Sergey Mikhailovich, producer - for the contribution to the development of domestic animated films;

Entin Yury Sergeevich, a poet - for his contribution to the development of Russian children's literature.

Separate Prizes were awarded to young cultural figures in 2015:

musician Vladislav Lavrik- for the contribution to the development of traditions and popularization of wind art;

artist Evgenia Lotsmanova- for the contribution to the development of the domestic art of illustration;

designer Elena Cheburashkina- for the contribution to the development of domestic design and art education.

20.04.2016

The International Council for Children's and Young Adults' Literature of UNESCO (IBBY) has announced the names of the 2016 H.C. Andersen Prize winners. Children's Nobel Prize Winners: Chinese Writer Cao Wenxuan and illustrator from Germany Rotrout Susanna Berner.

In addition, the winners of the International Reading Promotion Award (IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award - 2016) were announced within the framework of the Bologna Fair. The winning projects were: Read With Me (Iran) and Big Brother Mouse (Laos).

The Read With Me project has created more than 90 small libraries throughout Iran for children who are in a difficult life situation and usually do not have access to books. The main feature of the project is that teachers, psychologists and volunteers meet with young readers in the created libraries and read aloud to children. The Big Brother Mouse Project specializes in publishing beautiful, interesting, fun and accessible books that improve literacy and quality of life.

15.04.2016

Writer Meg Rosoff received the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize.

The 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial International Literary Prize was awarded to the American writer Meg Rosoff, who currently lives in London. This was announced by Buel Westin - the chairman of the international jury of the award.

This literary prize is awarded for contribution to the development of children's and youth literature. This year, a total of 215 children's organizations, illustrators and writers who work with children around the world applied for the award. Traditionally, the award ceremony will take place in May in Stockholm.

Meg Rosoff made her debut as a writer in 2004, her works are aimed at young people and filled with meaning, she became widely known with her novel How I Live Now. The jury noted that this year's winner masterfully describes the search for meaning in the strange and bizarre the world. Meg Rosoff will receive a cash award of five million Swedish kronor, which is 616 thousand US dollars.

The founder of the Astrid Lindgren International Literary Prize is the Government of Sweden. The award has been awarded since 2002 with the aim of promoting the development of children's and youth literature. The established award also became a sign of deep respect and recognition for the outstanding writer Astrid Lindgren, who remains one of the most loved and read authors in Sweden today. Her books have been translated into more than ninety languages ​​around the world. Unfortunately, it has not been translated into Russian.

30.11.2015

November 30, 2015 Annual competition "New Children's Book" , one of the largest events in modern domestic literature for children, announced start of the seventh season. Over the previous 6 seasons, more than 18,000 manuscripts were submitted to the competition, about 76 contracts were concluded with authors and more than 70 books were published. And this is not the limit. The competition continues to grow!

The competition is held to draw readers' attention to contemporary Russian children's literature, open new talented authors of children's books to the general public and give them the opportunity to publish their works.

Previously unpublished works written in Russian are accepted for the competition. The competition is supported by well-known writers, experts in the field of literature, art, film and media industry, well-known media personalities, book and publishing market professionals.

The winners and prize-winners of the competition are awarded with special prizes. The main prize of the contest "New Children's Book" is a contract with the publishing house "ROSMEN", the best works of the contest participants are published in an illustrated collection. Regardless of the opinion of the jury, the ROSMEN publishing house also considers other manuscripts submitted for the competition for possible publication.

The "New Children's Book" competition is the winner of the professional book market award "Inspector" in the nomination "The Best Project for the Promotion of Books and Reading". Many books that were published thanks to the New Children's Book competition were awarded new awards and were awarded such authoritative awards as BabyNOS, Runet Book Prize, Golden Delvig, RosCon, EuroCon, Medal . N. V. Gogol”, “Prize them. V.Krapivina "and others.

In the 6th season of the competition, for the first time, an additional nomination for illustrators "New children's illustration" was introduced.

On September 17, 2015, the Russian State Children's Library announced the winners of the sixth season of the competition in the following categories: "Children's poems and fairy tales", "Fantasy World" and "New Children's Illustration". Also, the OZON.ru online store made its choice, a special prize "Choice of Terra Incognita" and prizes for winning the "Open Readers' Voting" were awarded. The results of the sixth season can be found here

25.09.15

September 17, 2015 the winners were announced VI annual competition "New Children's Book" .

The New Children's Book competition, founded in 2009 by the largest Russian publishing house of children's literature ROSMEN, is today one of the largest Russian literary events in the field of children's and youth literature. The purpose of the competition is to draw the attention of readers to modern Russian children's literature, to open new talented authors of children's books to the general public and to give them the opportunity to publish their works. For the first time in the VI season of the competition, a separate nomination was introduced to search for artists with a modern, original drawing style.

November 27, 2014 to April 7, 2015 submitted to the competition 5327 applications from writers and artists from 899 cities 41 countries of the world(!), from which on July 1, 2014 a shortlist was formed in three nominations. The works of the shortlist were read and evaluated by the members of the jury. Based on the results of consideration of the works, the jury announced the names of the winners.

Nomination "Children's poems and fairy tales":

1st place - Anna Nikolskaya (Barnaul). "Martha and the Fantastic Airship"

2nd place - Yulia Simbirskaya (Yaroslavl). "In the belly by the sea"

3rd place - Ponornitskaya Ilga (Cheboksary). "Our Earth is breathing"

Nomination "World of Fantasy":

1st place - Ekaterina Merzlyakova (Moscow). "Destroyer"

2nd place - Vologzhanina Alla (Moscow). "Young. Wolves on the Path of the Moon»

3rd place - Sergey Potemkin (Korsakov). "Legislator"

Nomination "New children's illustration":

1st place - Tretyakova Elizaveta (Moscow). "Where Does the Snow Go"

2nd place - Kozlov Valery (Moscow). "Tired of being a chicken"

3rd place - Mikhailyan Ivanna (Kyiv). "Magic Shop"

Nomination "Children's poems and fairy tales" - Alexey Lisachenko (Yekaterinburg). "True stories about Mitya Pechenkin". The work gained 33%, which amounted to 1139 votes.

Nomination "Fantasy World" - Goryunova Irina (Moscow). "Team Z Magic Lessons". The work gained 22%, which amounted to 426 votes.

Nomination "Children's poems and fairy tales" - Alexey Lisachenko (Yekaterinburg). "True stories about Mitya Pechenkin"

Nomination "Fantasy World" - Alexandra Stepanova (Moscow). "The Fifth Abyss"

As part of the competition, a special prize "TerraIncognita's Choice" was established in the "Fantasy World" nomination.

The first 250 teen readers rated all of the entries in the nomination's shortlist and chose their winner. They gave the majority of votes for the work "The Destroyer" by Ekaterina Merzlyakova (Moscow). TerraIncognita representatives Stefania Kulikova and Daria Vishnyakova congratulated Ekaterina on the stage. As you can see, the choice of teenagers coincided with the opinion of the jury, which is especially valuable!

The winners who took first places in the New Children's Book contest were awarded a special prize of the contest - a contract with the ROSMEN publishing house for publishing book illustrations.

The ROSMEN publishing house reserves the right to discuss with the finalists, who were not among the winners, the publication of works and contracts for illustrating books.

Pleasant surprises await readers this year.

Jury members Andrey Maksimov, Anastasia Arkhipova, Victoria Fomina, Marina Moskvina, Alexei Kopeikin, Ekaterina Ptashkina, Elena Smirnova, who were present at the ceremony, highly appreciated the level of manuscripts and illustrations sent to the competition, and also noted their favorites.

As part of the awards ceremony, the presentation of the books of the winners and prize-winners of the New Children's Book 2014 competition took place: Salapapon and Mzdyrya by Yuri Ligun, The Sea That Isn't on the Map by Maria Bershadskaya.

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07.09.14

September 7 The jury of the competition for the best literary work for children and youth "Kniguru" announced the shortlist for this year's season. Literary critic and expert of the competition Xenia Moldavskaya noted that “great readers grow out of readers of literature for children and teenagers. “Kniguru” is the youngest and best part of the “Big Book”!”. Writer Nikolai Nazarkin, an expert at Kniguru, announcing the list of finalists, said that this year the selection was stricter: “We tried to remove the texts of the “not bad, you can read” level. In the short list - only the best " .

The short list included:

Edward Verkin. "Raven Biter".

Nina Dashevskaya. "Near the Music"

Maria Druzhinina, Sergey Ilyin. "Tales from different countries".

Igor Zhukov. "The Wizard and the Son"

Dmitry Kazakov. "Moscow Blizzard".

Alexander Kiselev. "Canary and Bullfinch".

Maria Lebedeva. "Not waiting for midnight."

Inga Ponornitskaya. "Open Windows"

Anna Remez, Natalia Kolotova. Skating on the Neva, or the Mouse in the Sleeve.

Tatyana Rick. "Chur, Volodya is my fiancé!"

Elena Sokovenina. "Kupnaya Bone, or My Struggle".

Igor Solopov. "Brownie".

Marina Yasinskaya. "Red, blue and dead."

All works included in the shortlist will be posted in the public domain on the competition website, and readers under 16 will choose the best ones. Voting on the site will last until mid-November 2014. Ksenia Moldavskaya added that Kniguru is unique because it does not depend on sales, but on real reader interest: “It just predicts sales.” This is true: thanks to Knigur, for example, Svetlana Lavrova became famous, who received the National Book of the Year Award on the opening day of the 27th MIBF

Laureates named "Books of the Year" 2014 of the year.

On the opening day of the 27th Moscow International Book Fair, the winners of the National Book of the Year competition, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, were announced. The solemn ceremony, where the names of laureates in eight competitive nominations were announced, was held on the stage of the Moscow theater "Et Сetera". award in nomination "Together with the book we grow" received Svetlana Lavrova for a children's fantasy story "Where does the cock horse ride?" (Publishing house "KompasGid").

19.08.14

The results were summed up in Moscow IV International Competition named after Sergei Mikhalkov for the best work of art for teenagers.

The motto of the Competition is a catchphrase of Sergei Mikhalkov "Today - children, tomorrow - the people" . The competition is supported by the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The general sponsor of the project is the Russian Authors' Society.

The award ceremony was held by People's Artist of Russia Svyatoslav Belza. Diplomas and valuable gifts were presented to the laureates by the Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the Third International Competition. Sergei Mikhalkov, screenwriter Alexander Adabashyan and the outstanding Russian poet Andrei Dementiev. The winners of the Competition received awards and cash prizes from the hands of the President of the Russian Cultural Foundation Nikita Mikhalkov and the chairman of the jury of the Competition, Genrikh Borovik.

The jury of the Fourth Competition was headed by a well-known international journalist, writer Genrikh Borovik. The professional jury consisted of writers, literary critics, publishers, librarians, teachers. The youth jury included ten teenagers aged 12-16 - members of literary clubs at children's libraries in Moscow. It is worth paying attention once again to the fact that the jury members got acquainted with anonymous works, since the manuscripts were encrypted upon admission. And only at the stage of announcing the short list the names of contenders for prizes became known. Therefore, at the awards ceremony, the jury members got acquainted with the authors of the works that they selected as the best!

First Prize and a certificate for 1 million rubles was awarded Irina Degtyareva(Russia, Moscow) for the story "The Steppe Wind".

Irina is a young but rather experienced author - she writes stories, novels for adults and children, feature essays and articles. She is a graduate of the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky, Member of the Union of Writers of Russia, member of the Union of Journalists of Moscow. For a long time, Irina Degtyareva worked as a special correspondent, then as a columnist in the magazines of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the moment she is the literary editor of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense "Warrior of Russia".

The story "The Steppe Wind", which brought Irina an award, is about a boy who lives with his family on a farm in the Rostov region. About his growing up, pranks, quests, relationships with the outside world.

Second Prize and a certificate for 800 thousand rubles were awarded Tatyana Kornienko(Crimea, Sevastopol), the author of the story "Chersonesites".

Tatyana Kornienko is a well-known poet and prose writer in the Crimea, for several years now she has been the chairman of the Children's Writers' Club at the Central Children's Library. A.P. Gaidar in Sevastopol. Her stories and fairy tales-poems are known and loved by young Crimeans. They bribe with sincere, trusting intonation, excellent knowledge of child psychology. Tetyana Kornienko editor of the literary almanac "Sevastopol", a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

The heroes of her story live in different eras - in ancient Chersonese and modern Sevastopol. But incredible events crossed their paths, loyalty to duty made friends. True love, honor, dignity, valor - about this in "Chersonesites".

Third Prize and a certificate for 500 thousand rubles were awarded Mikhail Karchik (literary pseudonym Mikhail Loginov) from St. Petersburg, for the story "The Key to the City of Antonovsk".

Mikhail Karchik is a writer, political strategist, journalist for the daily socio-political newspaper Nevskoe Vremya. Due to the nature of work, he travels a lot around the country.

He talks about his story like this: “Over the past fifteen years, I have had the opportunity to visit dozens of small towns in the European part of the country and beyond the Urals. The prototypes of my young heroes live in these towns. They, like all children, believe in miracles. And that's why miracles sometimes happen."

The manuscripts of the three winners will be published by the Russian Cultural Foundation as separate books and will be added to the library of the Laureates of the Sergey Mikhalkov Competition at the end of the year.

In total, about four hundred manuscripts were sent to the competition. By studying them, the jury determined the general trend inherent in the current literature for teenagers.

Egor Konchalovsky summed up:

“I have a feeling, to be honest with you, of a certain superficiality. In general, maybe literature is moving, as any art is moving, in the direction of such, you know, absolute lightness, “monosyllabicity”. This is not an exclusively Russian process. Maybe even in our country it is going a little slower than in the rest of the world.”.

01.04.14

On Bologna Children's Book Fair The winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, one of the oldest and most prestigious international awards in the field of children's literature, were announced. March 24, 2014 The International Council for Children's Books IBBY has announced the names of the 2014 Andersen Award winners (HansChristianAndersenAward). They are a Japanese writer Uehashi Nahoko (Uehashi Nahoko) and Brazilian illustrator Roger Mello (Roger Mello).

The award jury noted that the writer Uehashi Nahoko, selected from 28 applicants, is distinguished by her unique ability to create various fantasy worlds based on traditional Japanese mythology and great respect for nature and all sentient beings. The works of Roger Mello, the best of 30 applicants, according to the jury, give the child the opportunity to explore the history and culture of Brazil, allowing them to go through them with their own imagination.

More information about the award winners on the website of the State Library for Foreign Literature.

The Andersen Medal is awarded every two years. The winners will receive their awards at the 34th IBBY Congress to be held in September in Mexico City.

Recall that Vladislav Krapivin and Igor Oleinikov were nominated from Russia this year for the award.

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize to go to Swedish writer Barbru Lindgren (BarbroLindgren), namesake of the great Astrid Lindgren.

Barbu Lindgren was born in Sweden in 1937 and has loved to draw and read since childhood. And then she became a writer and artist herself. She writes poems and stories for children and often illustrates them herself. Books by Barbru Lindgren have already been translated into many languages ​​of the world, in our library you can read books "Matthias Summer" And "Hi Matthias!" , Loranga Mazarin and Dartagnan" , "Oh you, Borka" .

Congratulations to Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin on the award of the first Russian presidential prize in the field of literature for children and youth!

At the presentation ceremony in the Kremlin, Vladislav Krapivin said:
“I would like to express my gratitude for such a high award. And gratitude not so much from myself, but from those young readers for whom I write my books. The establishment of this award gives another hope for the development of literature for young people, without which it is impossible to imagine a normal good life of the present generation.”

Together with Krapivin, the award of the President of Russia was received by the director of animated films Edward Nazarov - for his contribution to the development of domestic animation cinema, and the artist Alexander Traugot - for the contribution to the development of the domestic art of illustration of children's and youth books.

15.02.14

Keith DiCamillo received again Newbery Award!

Kate DiCamillo won the 2014 Newbery Prize for Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. The American writer received her first medal in 2004 (for the book The Adventures of Despero the Mouse).

This is the sixth time in the history of the award that the award has been re-presented. The medal has also been awarded more than once to Elaine Konigsburg, Joseph Krumgold, Lois Lowry, Katherine Paterson and Elizabeth Speer.

Previously, the Library of Congress named DiCamillo the new National Ambassador for Children's Literature.

The John Newbery Award (Newbery Medal) is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of children's literature. It has been awarded since 1922. Awarded annually by the American Library Association for an outstanding work for children written by a US citizen and published in the previous year.

The Newbery Medal is the world's first award to recognize achievements in children's literature. It is named after John Newbery, an English publisher of children's and youth literature who lived in the 18th century.

The winner is announced every year in January. The book immediately appears in bookstores and libraries (many of them even have special sections for books - winners of the Newbery medal), and teachers add it to the school curriculum.

First book - Thank you Winn-Dixie! - went out to 2000

16.12.13

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin established awards in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth.

Decree text:

In order to support cultural figures working for a children's and youth audience, to intensify their participation in creative activities, I decide:

1. Establish three awards President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth in the amount 2.5 million rubles each.

The Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth is awarded to citizens of the Russian Federation who have made a significant contribution to civic-patriotic, ethical And cultural and aesthetic education of the younger generation, development of national culture, in order to stimulate further activities of the laureates of this award, create favorable conditions for new creative achievements.

2. Establish that the solemn ceremony of awarding the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for works for children and youth is held annually, starting from 2014.

01.12.13

The largest competition of teenage literature in the Russian-speaking space "Kniguru" summed up the results of the fourth season and announced the names of the winners.

Kniguru, a teenage literature competition in which both fiction and educational works participate, and the jury consists of the children themselves, has announced the winners of 2013.

Recall that the works recognized as the winners of the competition are distributed in electronic form free of charge in the public domain through competition website.

An open jury, which included teenagers aged 10-16, read the works of the short list posted on the website of the award for three months, determining their preferences. At the same time, the jury members had to read at least five works each. The vote was counted only if there was a commentary on the work. This allowed the writers-finalists to know what their readers directly think about the texts.

Laureate first prize - "Treasures of the Riphean Mountains" - a collection of texts about the wealth of the Urals and the history of the Ural crafts of authorship Elena Lenkovskaya, art historian from Yekaterinburg.

Manuscripts that took 2 And 3 places are works of art. Tale Stanislav Vostokov "Frosya Korovina" tells about a real village woman seven years old, and in the work Evgeny Rudashevsky "Hello, my brother Bzou" we are talking about the friendship of a boy and a dolphin, and the action itself takes place in the late Soviet Abkhazia.

The Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin International Children's Literary Prize is awarded once a year to a Russian or foreign author and is awarded on the writer's birthday, October 14. Along with the award, the laureate is awarded a diploma and a commemorative medal.

The award was initiated in 2006 by the Association of Ural Writers. In 2009, the V.P. Krapivin International Literary Prize ceased to exist.

In 2010, the Commonwealth of Children's Writers announced a new one - the International Children's Literary Prize named after V.P.

Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin was born in the city of Tyumen on October 14, 1938, in a family of teachers. In 1956 he entered the Faculty of Journalism of the Ural State University named after M.V. A. M. Gorky. In 1961, Vladislav Krapivin created the Caravel children's detachment (in 1965, the Pioneer magazine took patronage over the detachment). Vladislav Petrovich led the detachment for more than thirty years, currently young graduates of the detachment are at the head of the Caravelle. The first book by Vladislav Krapivin "Flight of the Orion" was published in 1962 in Sverdlovsk. Two years later, the author was accepted as a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR.

Currently, V. Krapivin has published about three hundred books, many of them translated into foreign languages. His books are included in the "Golden Library of Selected Works for Children and Youth", "Library of Adventure and Science Fiction", "Library of World Literature for Children", in the Japanese 26-volume series "Selected Works of Russian Writers for Teenagers".

Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin - Professor of the Tyumen State University, Honorary Citizen of the city of Yekaterinburg, laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize, A. Gaidar, L. Kassil, N. Kuznetsov, A. Green, the literary prize of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR and the magazine "Ural Pathfinder" "Aelita" and the literary award of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk region, the award of the Round Table of the MDO "Rainbow of Cooperation" in the nomination "Amethyst Sphere" and other literary awards. At the All-Russian competition of readers' sympathies "Golden Key-96" was noted among the best.

For social activities he was awarded the badge of A. Gaidar of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. In 1980 he received the title of an excellent student of public education of the RSFSR.

For literary and social activities he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the medal "For Valiant Labor", the Order of Honor. For his contribution to the education of young military personnel, by order of the head of the troops of the Far Eastern Border District, he was awarded the badge "Excellent Frontier Troops", second degree.

Tatyana Valerievna, the reading public is well aware of the awards that are awarded for adult books. There are not as many of them as we would like, but they still exist. And what awards exist today in the field of children's books?

To begin with, we must name the two most notable awards: this is the State Prize in the field of literature and art for children and youth and the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of culture.

The State Prize in the 21st century was awarded only once: in 2002, Irina Tokmakova received it for her book of poems "Happy Journey". A well deserved and predictable award. We can consider that with this award we have completed the 20th century - the "golden age" of Soviet children's literature.

Eduard Uspensky for the book “Stories about a girl with a strange name” and Albert Likhanov for the dilogy “Russian Boys. Men's school. But this is also more of a recognition of merit than a real recommendation to readers. The awarded authors have fundamentally different approaches to children's literature: Eduard Uspensky is a master of the modern ironic fairy tale, Albert Likhanov is a representative of the realistic school (one would like to say “socialist realism”). It is difficult to speak about the age targeting of the awarded works. Eduard Uspensky's book is written simply and seems to be designed for younger schoolchildren, but it contains many references to the political history of modern Russia that are incomprehensible to a child. That is, here is just the situation when the author hides behind the screen of the standard recommendation "for adults to read to children." And the stories of Albert Likhanov are addressed to older teenagers and adults.

In 2011, Valery Voskoboinikov for the series of books "The Life of Remarkable Children" and Yunna Moritz for the book "The Roof Was Going Home" became the winners of the government prize. These are children's, good, correct and necessary books.

As you said, the purpose of these awards is to recognize merit. By and large, they are related to Soviet-era awards. It can hardly be said that they somehow influence the market for children's literature or stimulate the book publishing process. Has the situation with premiums changed in this sense?

From 2003 to 2008, there was the All-Russian competition "Scarlet Sails", established by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications. Among its laureates are writers and poets who are very different in their work. Book artists and entire projects were also noted at the competition: for example, the children's project by Lyudmila Ulitskaya “Another. Other. About others” on education of tolerance. Literary critics were noted in one of the nominations.

From 2005 to 2009, there was the Cherished Dream National Children's Literary Award, which was established at the initiative of the MIAN Group of Companies and the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications. This project was very different from everything that existed before. In particular, prose works for children of middle and senior school age, written in Russian, as well as author's translations of texts written in other languages, were accepted for the award. The award had a complex structure: a large and a small award (in terms of the volume of works), within each of them - three places, and in addition - awards in special categories and also the “Prize of Literary Council Sympathy”. The works that won in the first two seasons were published at the expense of the founders in a colossal edition, which was distributed free of charge to the country's children's and school libraries. One can argue about the quality of the manuscripts selected for publication, but these are disputes from the field of taste preferences. The fact remains: there was no such powerful project before, and now there is no more.

- "Scarlet sail", "Cherished dream" - it's all in the past. And in the present? What awards exist today?

Every year, the professional community of book publishers awards the "Book of the Year" award, which is presented at the International Moscow Book Fair. In the nomination "Together with the book we grow" books by Russian authors for children and youth are considered, which have received recognition from readers, positive reviews from critics and children's libraries. Moreover, it is the book that is considered as an integral printing product, and not just a text.

Do I understand correctly that publishers give this award to publishers? That is, the people who publish these books themselves. Of course, it's good that there is such an award. But it turns out that this is an "intrashop" award, and it, apparently, solves some local problems. After all, it is known that the interests of publishers and writers (artists, translators) intersect, but never fully coincide.

There are other "intrashop" awards. For example, the "Master" award, established by the "Masters of Literary Translation" guild. In 2010, this award was first presented for the literary translation of books for a teenage audience.

The Samuil Marshak Literary Prize and the Korney Chukovsky Literary Prize can also be attributed to the category of “intrashop” ones.
The S. Marshak Prize was established by the Writers' Union of St. Petersburg and the City Administration and is awarded annually for works of children's literature (except for translations) published in Russia in the calendar year preceding the award.

The K. Chukovsky Prize was established by the Writers' Union of Moscow and the State Literary Museum (department "Chukovsky House-Museum in Peredelkino") with the support of the Government of Moscow and is awarded on the basis of merit to children's poets writing in Russian in the genre of play poetry.

That is, in terms of meaning, the K. Chukovsky Prize is similar to the state one: through this award, the writers' community announces that this or that poet is included in the "face" of the classics. The names of those awarded eloquently testify to this.

There are other nominal awards, each with its own ideology: A.N. Tolstoy, the competition named after Sergei Mikhalkov, the International Children's Literary Prize named after V.P. Krapivina.

Among the founders of these awards, either the Union of Writers or the Commonwealth of Writers necessarily appears. That is, they are all more or less intrashop.

I would not underestimate the "intrashop" estimates. No one will appreciate a colleague as meticulously as translators, artists, writers themselves.

I am not at all against intrashop bonuses! They are definitely prestigious. I just think that they solve certain problems in a certain field. And beyond the boundaries of this field there are many other tasks. Therefore, intrashop bonuses alone are not enough.

There are also competitions held by publishers.

The winners of these competitions are most often those who have written not just an interesting work, but one that best meets the publishing policy of a particular publishing house.

Some publishing houses refer to the results of literary competitions (“Time”, “Scooter”, “Narnia”, “Compass Guide”). But most of the long-listed and short-listed manuscripts, alas, never find their publisher.

It is important to name the magazine awards, or rather one currently existing notable award - named after Yuri Koval, which is awarded to its authors and artists by the Murzilka magazine. And in 2008, the Dynasty Foundation established the Enlightener Award for the best work of popular science literature. Among the books that have received this award are those addressed to smart older children.

But, probably, the most interesting and independent today is the literary competition "Kniguru".

This award picked up the baton of the "Cherished Dream". Within the framework of the Kniguru project, a fundamentally new approach to the selection of laureates is being implemented. Any reading teenager from 10 to 16 years old can become a member of the children's jury. To do this, you need to register on the competition website and send an application for inclusion in the jury. Registered jury members vote online. In parallel with the children's voting, there is an adult voting. Manuscripts of works submitted for the competition are posted on the website. Anyone can get to know them. The competition is open, and there are quite a lot of manuscripts. In the first season, there were 403 of them, and only 14 were included in the short list. By the way, the results of the adult and children's voting did not match. This year the results of the competition will be announced on March 20, the eve of Children's Book Week.

One of the results of the competition is the creation of a temporary public Internet library of contemporary literature for teenagers, which has been posted on the site "kniguru.rf" for six months.

Some libraries have come up with their own ways to mark the best books.
Thus, recognition of the quality of the book can be considered its inclusion in the catalog "100 new books for children and adolescents", which is published by the Central State Children's Library. A.P. Gaidar, Samokat Publishing House, Grand Fair Publishing Group, and independent literary critic Ksenia Moldavskaya.

Publishing houses take part in the creation of this catalogue. Doesn't this mean they will lobby for their own books?

The mechanism for compiling the 100 Books catalog is not only well known to me, but we ourselves have been developing it throughout the six years of its existence. Yes, the Samokat publishing house initiated the birth of the catalog, but, according to our rules, Samokat's opinion about its own books is considered along with all other points of view. And the fact that there are a lot of Scooter books in the catalog is a reflection of the real book publishing situation with books for teenagers. "Scooter" is a recognized leader in the publication of teenage literature.

Probably, it must be admitted that now new “players” have appeared on the field of teenage literature, which did not yet exist at the time the catalog was created, or which at that time had not yet “grown up” to the release of teenage books. It is possible that the competition for leadership is intensifying. But I would like to believe that the Gaidarovka team - a recognized leader among the experts of the library community - has enough weight and strength to overcome the wrong tendencies. In general, how noticeable is the participation of libraries in the "premium life" of children's books?

A vivid example of such activity is demonstrated by the readers of the Leningrad Regional Children's Library. They annually compile a list of the best books - determine the top ten of the year. These books in the library fund are marked with the badge "Like the children of the Leningrad region." All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature. M.I. Rudomino annually sends several domestic books to the Munich Library. There the issue of including the best, in the opinion of our German colleagues, books in the international list "White Crows" is being decided.

As far as I know, publishers themselves can send books for consideration by Munich experts. But for some reason they do not make much effort in this direction.

Let's try to sum up. There are several intrashop awards (among them, more or less prestigious ones can be singled out); there is an Enlightener award (unfortunately, with very poor information support); there is a "100 Best Books" catalogue, and only one award, which is based on reader votes. Moreover, this premium works only in the teenage sector. Well, the quality mark “Children of the Leningrad Region like it” is such a wonderful thing, reflecting the reader's life in libraries of one cultural region, but also focused on teenage literature.

Let's just say, not a lot. Especially in the field of awards initiated by public organizations and independent reading communities.

And then why be surprised that small publishing houses do their business mainly on translated literature, while large publishing houses drive an incredible amount of waste paper?

Publishing houses are strangely not interested in the appearance of new authors, they are afraid of them. So they say to writers: your work is not bad (or even good), but you are an unknown author. That's why we can't publish you.
In addition, a small publishing house is not able to cope with the evaluation of the flow of manuscripts. He does not have the human resources to do so.

A small publishing house is hesitant to experiment with book design because it has no guarantee that the future book it is offered will find its reader in the market. And there is no need for a large publishing house to experiment, because it does not try to pass itself off as an elite one with exquisite aesthetic ambitions.

I think that our book publishing will be dependent on Western brands and uncompetitive in the global book market until we have many different awards. And these awards should be initiated not only by the state, but also by public organizations, associations of readers, as well as businesses that are far from book publishing.

I do not think that a large number of awards and competitions will save readers and publishers.

And I do not agree with the fact that small publishing houses do not dare to experiment with book design. It seems to me that basically they are experimenting today, taking risks.

As for “independence of judgment”, I would not trust the reader-parent community one hundred percent when it comes to children's literature. Any award needs expert advice. This is not snobbery. If the number of unprofessionally written texts that come to competitions would have been presented to the reader's court, the degree of domestic literature would have dropped sharply.

But the reader is different. And we are talking about creating a competent, understanding reading community with high taste. It is clear that such a community needs to be carefully cultivated, forming its active readership. And it is necessary to start raising such a reader from the moment when the baby is just learning to speak. In our country, only a book addressed to teenagers is considered worthy of attention. But what about books for the little ones? For those who are just starting out as an independent reader?

It is necessary to think about the mechanisms for selecting manuscripts for the smallest, here I agree with you.
In the previous two decades, lacunae had been discovered in adolescent literature, and the forces of publishers, writers, and translators had been thrown into it.

Translated books, such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, became events in publishing for children. Now the situation has changed. And not only literary critics, but also psychologists and the reading community should take part in the evaluation of books for kids. However, here I have more questions than answers.

Astrid Lindgren Award

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize is the world's largest award for achievements in literature for children and young people. The prize is five million SEK and is awarded annually to one or more laureates. The purpose of the award is to strengthen and increase interest in children's and young people's literature around the world and to ensure the protection of children's rights.

The award is open to writers as well as illustrators, storytellers and activists who contribute to the general promotion of reading.

The award is in recognition of a person's accomplishments and is awarded only during lifetime. Various institutions and organizations around the world put forward their contenders for the award, from which the winners are selected by a special expert jury. The jury consists of 12 people, among whom may be writers, literary scholars and literary critics, illustrators and librarians. In addition, the jury always includes one of Astrid Lindgren's family members.

2014 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize Winner Swedish writer Barbro Lindgren.

Barbro Lindgren was born in 1937. Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages ​​of the world. Russian-speaking readers are familiar with her books "Summer of Mattias", "Hi, Mattias!" and others. Barbrou is also the author of collections of lyrics, theater plays and novels for children.

“Barbro Lindgren, with her boldness of language and richness of psychological nuances, not only brought new things to books for the little ones, but also to absurd prose stories, existential poems for children and realistic depictions of childhood. It conveys both bright moments of happiness, as well as the mystery of life and the proximity of death,” the jury noted.

Hans Christian Andersen International Literary Prize

The Hans Christian Andersen Prize is a literary award given to the best children's writers and illustrators. Established in 1956 by the UNESCO International Council for Children's and Youth Literature. Awarded once every two years. The award is presented on April 2, the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen. On the initiative and decision of the International Council, as a sign of deep respect and love for H. H. Andersen, in 1967 April 2 was declared the International Children's Book Day.

The laureates - writer and artist - are awarded gold medals with a profile of Hans Christian Andersen and Honorary Diplomas for the best children's and youth books recently published in the countries that are members of the International Council.

The 2014 award winners are a Japanese writer Uehashi Nahoko and Brazilian illustrator Roger Mello.

"Book of the Year"

Every year, the professional community of book publishers awards the "Book of the Year" award, which is presented at the Moscow International Book Fair. The winners of the "Book of the Year" competition are awarded a diploma and a commemorative statuette "Walking with a book".

In 2014, the award in the nomination "Together with the book we grow" received Svetlana Lavrova for a children's fantasy story "Where does the cock horse ride?".

The story is both similar and unlike other books by Svetlana Lavrova. On the one hand, reading it is just as funny and exciting, and on the other hand, mythological plots are woven into the new story, which are far from familiar to every reader - a teenager.

Svetlana Lavrova is a candidate of medical sciences, a neurophysiologist, and at the same time a well-known children's writer, the author of more than forty books.

V. P. Krapivin International Children's Literary Prize

Awarded as a sign of respect for the writer's work and to stimulate literary activity in line with the traditions laid down by him. The prize is awarded once a year to a Russian or foreign author and is awarded on V. P. Krapivin's birthday, October 14. Along with the award, the laureate is awarded a diploma and a commemorative medal.

The 2014 prize winners were: S. Vostokov for the book "Frosya Korovin", N. Dashevskaya for the story "Willy", A. M. Kreutzwald for the story "Marta".

Reviews of the jury about the works of the laureates of 2014

About Stanislav Vostokov's bookFrosya Korovina": “A perfect fairy tale, with a flawless combination of realism and magic. Fun, dramatic and educational. The ability to upset and soothe. Wonderful story, original characters, good language. Children are alive, adults are generally excellent, humor, plot, language - everything is fine!

About the story of Nina Dashevskaya "Willy": “This book is good for its absolute childishness, faith in the best in people and in the world. Such books awaken the imagination and give a fairy tale - for life. There are books for entertainment, there are books for reflection, and there are books for joy. The whole story is like flying on a bicycle! She is so joyful, clear, rhythmic, so unusually light!

About A. M. Kreutzwald's story "Martha": “The most liked work. Actual. Exciting plot. Intrigue. Reflections. The language is wonderful. The lyrics are beyond praise. The product can be recommended to seniors, starting from the age of 16 and beyond. It is for youth, not for children.

The winners of the award with diplomas and special prizes were also named:

Gromova Olga for the story "Sugar Child";

Lederman Victoria for the story "Calendar Ma (y) I";

Baranovsky Mikhail for the story "I'm raising dad";

Zhuravlikova (Galkina) Natalya for the story "The Great Journey Through the Closet and Back";

Nikolskaya Anna for the story "Bloshkins and Fryu from Barakhta Bay";

Basova Evgenia for the story "Open Windows";

Strokina Anastasia for the story "The whale is swimming north."

Korney Chukovsky Literary Prize

In December 2014, at the closing ceremony of the eighth Moscow Festival of Children's Literature named after Korney Chukovsky, the writer's literary prize was awarded at the Central House of Writers.

The prize in the nomination "For outstanding creative achievements in domestic children's literature" was awarded to Novella Matveeva.

The award "For the Development of Innovative Traditions of Korney Chukovsky in Modern Russian Children's Literature" was awarded to Igor Shevchuk(Saint Petersburg).

A Muscovite received the prize "For fruitful activity stimulating children's interest in reading" Mikhail Grozovsky.

The Golden Crocodile Reader's Choice Award, which is awarded by the children's jury in recognition of a favorite author, went to a young poetess from Yaroslavl Anastasia Orlova.

"Kniguru"

The purpose of the All-Russian competition for the best literary work for children and youth "Kniguru" is to find and present to the public new interesting Russian-language literature for teenagers, to make literary works for teenagers accessible to the reader, regardless of geography.

A fundamentally new approach to the selection of laureates is being implemented within the framework of the project. Any reading teenager from 10 to 16 years old can become a member of the children's jury. To do this, you need to register on the competition website and send an application for inclusion in the jury. Registered jury members vote online. In parallel with the children's voting, there is an adult voting. Manuscripts of works submitted for the competition are posted on the website.

The winner of the fifth season in 2014 was the collection Nina Dashevskaya "Near the Music". Nina Dashevskaya, violinist of the orchestra of the Children's Musical Theater. N. I. Sats, wrote the thinnest book about how music changes the life and feelings of all those involved in it. “It's a very good idea to show so many different people whose life is connected with music and how this music is important in their life and changes it,” wrote fifteen-year-old reader Ira Zakharova from Ulyanovsk about Dashevskaya's collection.

Second place went to the mystical story of Nizhny Novgorod Dmitry Kazakov "Moscow Blizzard". This is a story about Moscow, about the spirits and guardians of the city, about the first tender feeling and about what gives a person real strength. “In this book, first of all, all the feelings, thoughts, experiences of ordinary teenagers are shown, so it was quite easy for me to be in their “skin”, stand in their place and get into real adventures” - from a reader's review.

The collection of short stories by a Muscovite took the third place Tatyana Rick "Chur, Volodya is my fiancé", telling about the childhood of a girl from the eighties of the last century. “It turns out that children used to live like we do now. I would like to continue about Tanya's childhood. I will read more books by Tatyana Rick!” - ten-year-old Dasha Isakova from the city of Rezh, Sverdlovsk region, spoke so emotionally about the work.

International Competition named after Sergei Mikhalkov

The Sergey Mikhalkov International Competition for the best work of art for teenagers was established by the Russian Cultural Foundation and the Council for Children's Books of Russia. The competition is held once every two years. The first competition was held in 2008.

Goals and objectives of the competition:

Revival of the best traditions of Russian and Soviet literature for teenagers;

Identification and promotion of talented authors writing for readers aged 12-17 in Russian;

Formation in adolescents of spiritual and moral values, patriotism, responsible citizenship, loyalty to the traditions of national culture, historical consciousness, respect for nature.

Competition winners in 2014

First Prize awarded Irina Degtyareva(Moscow city) for the story "The Steppe Wind".

Irina is a young but rather experienced author - she writes stories, novels for adults and children, feature essays and articles. She is a graduate of the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, a member of the Union of Journalists of Moscow. For a long time, Irina Degtyareva worked as a special correspondent, then as a columnist in the magazines of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the moment she is the literary editor of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense "Warrior of Russia".

The story "The Steppe Wind", which brought Irina an award, tells about a boy who lives with his family on a farm in the Rostov region. About his growing up, pranks, quests, relationships with the outside world.

The jury noted:

“Very accurate addressing of the work - specifically to a teenager! The language of the story is accessible, friendly, open to dialogue between the reader - the author - the hero.

“The language is juicy, figurative, the characters of the characters are written by the author with great skill. The speech characteristics of each character are interesting, with their local dialect and intonations. And how beautiful is the description of the steppe, the running of horses!”

Second Prize was awarded Tatyana Kornienko(Sevastopol), for the story "Chersonesites".

Tatyana Kornienko is a well-known poet and prose writer in the Crimea, for several years now she has been the chairman of the Children's Writers' Club at the Central Children's Library. A.P. Gaidar in Sevastopol. Her stories and fairy tales-poems are known and loved by young Crimeans. They bribe with sincere, trusting intonation, excellent knowledge of child psychology. Tetyana Kornienko editor of the literary almanac "Sevastopol", a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

The heroes of her story live in different eras - in ancient Chersonese and modern Sevastopol. But incredible events crossed their paths, loyalty to duty made friends. True love, honor, dignity, valor - about this in "Chersonesites".

From the jury reviews:

“Exceptionally informative, bright, talented. Excellent literary language.

"Good children's fantasy!"

"Great non-fiction story, makes the reader keep track of the events!"

But the reviewer of the Youth Jury Grisha Chermashentsev (13 years old) spoke more enthusiastically: “It is written very interestingly, the book reads like a history textbook, but with a plot. I read without stopping, I experienced along with the characters, I felt them. And what happened at the end surprised me. It happens that when a person listens to music or watches a movie, he may get goosebumps. It happens to me too, but only while reading. I can count such “goosebumps” books on my fingers, and “Chersonesites” will definitely be in it!”

Third Prize got Mikhail Karchik(literary pseudonym - Mikhail Loginov) from St. Petersburg for the story "The Key to the City of Antonovsk".

Mikhail Karchik is a writer, political strategist, journalist for the daily socio-political newspaper Nevskoe Vremya. Due to the nature of work, he travels a lot around the country.

He tells about his story as follows: “Over the past fifteen years, I have had the opportunity to visit dozens of small towns in the European part of the country and beyond the Urals. The prototypes of my young heroes live in these towns. They, like all children, believe in miracles. And that's why miracles sometimes happen."

And the reviewer of the Youth Jury Volodya Kobeletsky (12 years old) wrote: “This is an interesting story in which there are adventures, true friendship, and dangers that the characters overcome. I would compare it with the “Timurov team” transferred to the 21st century.”

The manuscripts of the three winners will be published by the Russian Cultural Foundation as separate books and at the end of the year will add to the library of laureates of the Sergey Mikhalkov Competition.

"New Children's Book"

One of the largest Russian competitions in the field of children's and youth literature. The competition is held to draw readers' attention to contemporary Russian children's literature, open new talented authors of children's books to the general public and give them the opportunity to publish their works.

In 2014, the New Children's Book competition was held for the fifth time. 4056 manuscripts were sent to the competition, from which a short list was formed in three main and two special nominations. The works of the shortlist were read and evaluated by the members of the jury. Based on the results of consideration of the works, the jury names the winners in the main nominations.

Nomination "Children's fairy tales and stories":

1st place - Yuri Ligun "Salapapon and Mzdyrya";

2nd place - Anastasia Orlova "This is a truck, and this is a trailer" No.

3rd place - Valery Ronshin "About Vovka Morkovkin".

Nomination "Education of the senses":

1st place - Nina Dashevskaya "Near the Music";

2nd place - Yulia Venediktova "Armas. Zone of Hope";

3rd place - Tatyana Bogatyryova "Mother's Day".

Nomination "Non-fiction":

1st place - Aya eN "Brain Stretchers";

2nd place - Nikolai Gol "Life of wonderful plants";

3rd place - Marina Dorochenkova and Anna Kravchuk "We live in a museum."

Special nomination "Magic Lantern"

The jury refused to award first and third places. The second place was awarded to the authors: Alexander Molchanov for the book "Expedition" and Alexander Egorov for the book "Maxim and Marsik".

Special nomination "Stories and fairy tales about animals and nature"

1st place - Anatoly Orlov (pseudonym - Lesnik) "Kabarzhonok Pim";

2nd place - Oleg Bundur "Visiting a polar bear";

3rd place - Sofya Yakovleva "We and a huge lake."

The winners of the open reader's vote:

Nomination "Children's fairy tales and stories"

Nomination "Education of the senses"- Svetlana Varfolomeeva "Masha as a symbol of Faith."

Nomination «Non-fiction»- Elena Stanislavskaya "Kotoputy".

Nomination "Children's Tales and Stories"- German Elizarov "The Adventures of Vasya Ptichkin in an enchanted house."

Nomination "Education of the senses"- Julia Venediktova "Armas. The Zone of Hope.

Nomination "Non-fiction"- Marina Dorochenkova and Anna Kravchuk "We live in a museum."

All winners of the 5th New Children's Book Competition were awarded a special prize. With the authors who won first places in three main categories: Yuri Ligun, Nina Dashevskaya and Aya en, as well as with the winner in the nomination "Stories and Tales about Animals and Nature" Anatoly Orlov, the ROSMEN publishing house is negotiating contracts. In addition, the ROSMEN publishing house will consider other submitted manuscripts for possible publication in the New Children's Book series.

All-Russian Literary Prize named after S. Ya. Marshak

The award was established in 2003. The purpose of the award is to identify and reward the most talented poets and writers of Russia who create literature for children. It is awarded for works of children's literature (except translations) published in separate editions or in magazines in Russia in the calendar year preceding the award.

The prize is awarded annually in two categories - prose and poetry. Since 2012, a nomination has been added - for a literary debut.

The 2014 award winners are:

In the nomination "Poetry" - Oleg Bundur(Kandalaksha) for a book of poems for children "I miss my dad";

In the nomination "Prose" - Stanislav Vostokov(Moscow) for the book "Rowan sun";

In the nomination "Debut in children's literature" - Anna Anisimova(Novosibirsk) for the book Kindergarten Captains.

In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the S. Ya. Marshak Prize, the organizing committee decided to award several literary projects with honorary prizes at once "TEN!"

Award "For publishing dedication" was presented to Ilya Bernstein, compiler of the series of books "Native speech" (publishing house "Samokat"): for attention to the Leningrad children's literature of the 60-80s of the last century, for the "textbook of Russian literature", which has become reading for modern teenagers.

Best Artist Award Mikhail Bychkov for the amazing ability to turn a literary text into a pictorial canvas when publishing both children's classics and contemporary authors.

Poet Award for Best Author Mikhail Yasnov for his indefatigable activity in promoting foreign children's literature and the highest artistic level of his translations into Russian of the best books of Western writers.

The Best Book Award for the work Leonid Kaminsky, collector and illustrator of children's folklore, for "History of the Russian state in excerpts from school essays."

Runet Book Prize

Annual award in the field of literary business and book business on the Internet. The award is given to the best Russian and foreign authors, as well as book projects based on the results of the selection of an expert council and the popular vote of Runet users. The award was founded in 2011 and since then annually attracts readers of Runet with the opportunity to make their choice in four genres: fiction, non-fiction, children's literature, business books.

The first book in the exciting fantasy series ELYSIAUM. The author, young Russian writer Alexander Anderson is the winner of the New Children's Book competition. The heroine of the book, the girl Alix, in search of her missing family, penetrates into the mysterious world of Mezhdustene, which has another, secret, name - Elysium. The guide to this world is the mysterious Jester. He helps Alix, but takes an exorbitant fee for help - magic coins, with each given coin, Alix's life is reduced. Will the girl find her parents, will she be able to get out of the mysterious, scary, but such an attractive world unscathed? And who is the Jester - friend or foe? And what is hidden under the mask that he never takes off?

Once upon a time, many, many years ago, the kind storyteller Lyudmila Vasilyeva-Gangus met the fairy Hello, who lived in a fairy-tale city. The houses there were made of chocolate, the roofs were candy, and the window shutters were pretzels. And most importantly, fabulously polite people lived in this city. But here's the problem: sometimes the intervention of one impolite, capricious boy is enough to make everything go to waste. The ABC of Politeness book is over 30 years old. Experienced teachers and educators claim that it has not lost its relevance to this day. In a playful way, traveling through a fabulous city and getting into trouble with the funny characters of this book, the child learns the basics of social adaptation, etiquette and communication skills. Funny illustrations are made by a wonderful artist Sergey Aleksandrovich Alimov.

According to the organizer of the competition, the Ozon.ru online book megamarket, the best-selling children's book was the book "Born With Character" by Evgenia Belonoshchenko.

This book is for parents who want their communication with their children to become more conscious and empathetic. The book contains answers to many questions about children, about how to accept them as they are. The author of the book, Evgenia Belonoshchenko, is the founder of a network of Baby Clubs throughout Russia. In 2008, she entered the top 5 entrepreneurs in Europe in the field of early development. In 2011, she became the winner of the national stage of the international competition "Entrepreneur of the Year" in the nomination "Education and Development". She created her own methodology and system for recruiting personnel to work with preschool children. Developed a structure for conducting classes with children aimed at developing different abilities of the baby.

Compiled by: GDUB bibliographer E.Sukhareva

International Prize named after G.-Kh. Andersen. Hans Christian Andersen Award

The gold medal with the profile of the great storyteller is called the "small Nobel Prize" in children's literature. She is awarded biennially, April 2nd when the whole world celebrates the birthday of G.-Kh. Andersenand International Children's Book Day. Since 1956, the prize has been awardedInternational Council for Children's and Young Adults' Books (IBBY , International Board on Books for Young People ) is an organization that unites writers, artists, literary critics, librarians from more than sixty countries. Since 1966, this award has also been given to illustrators of children's books. The award can only be received living writers and artists.

Astrid Lindgren International Literary Prize. The Astrid Lingren Memorial Award

Pafter the death of the world-famous storyteller, the government Sweden established a literary award named after her with the aim of preserving the memory of her beloved writer, as well as "to promote the popularization of good children's literature and contribute to its development" (the words of Swedish Prime Minister Göran Person). Annual The Astrid Lindgren International Literary Prize for Children and Youth can be awarded not only to a writer or artist for a special contribution to the development of a children's book, but also for any activity to promote reading and protect the rights of the child. The award is 500,000 euros. The winners of the award are determined by 12 honorary citizens of the country, members of the State Cultural Council of Sweden. By tradition, the name of the winner of this award every year called in March home of Astrid Lindgren. Laureate Award handed out in May in Stockholm.

Caldecott Medal. Caldecott Medal

This honorary medal of the American(ALSC, Association for Library Service to Children), awarded annually since 1938in USA"to himselfOutstanding Illustrated Work for Children". The award is named after the famous 19th century British artist, author and illustrator Randolph Caldecott. On the front side of the medal, the hero of the poem by William Cooper is depicted riding a galloping horse, and on the reverse side of the medal you can see a fragment of Caldecott's illustration for the collection of traditional English nursery rhymes and songs "Sing a Song of Sixpence". The award may be given to a book with original illustrations published in English in the United States during the year prior to the award. Illustrations should form a single whole with the text, harmoniously complement the plot, the nature of the characters and the mood of the work. The artist must be a US citizen or resident.

John Newbery Medal.John Newbery Medal

American literary premia Children's Library Associations ( ALSC , Association for Library Service to Children) awarded each year to an author for outstanding contributions to American children's literature. Awarded since 1922. The winning association brings together more than 4,200 children's and youth libraries, children's literature experts, publishers, librarians and school teachers. The winning book must be written by a US citizen or permanent resident.

The Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award

Since 2000, this international award encourages authors, illustrators and book publishers who tell stories stories of children with disabilities and developmental defects. The awards are given to works that tell the world about the problems of special children and help society understand and accept them.

Costa Award. Costa Book Award (until 2006 Whitbread Book Award)

This is one of the most honored literary awards. Great Britain Awarded since 1971 in five categories: novel, biographical novel, poetry, debut and children's book. Winners among British as well as Irish writers determined by the British Booksellers Association. 5 laureates each receive £5,000. Of these, the absolute winner is also selected, who receives 25 thousand, and whose work becomes the "Book of the Year". The award was renamed in honor of its main sponsor, Costa Coffee (a chain of coffee houses and coffee shops). Its goal is to spread reading to the widest possible audience.

Carnegie Medal. The Carnegie Medal

British Annual Literary Award, given to an author for an outstanding book for children and teenagers, traces its history back to 1936. The award is named after Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who founded over 2,800 libraries in English-speaking countries around the world. Only books published in English during the year in the UK can receive the award. Initially, there was also a rule that the author could only win a medal once in his life. Subsequently, this restriction was lifted. The award is presented in June of the year following the book's publication. The winner of the competition receives a gold medal and £500 worth of books, which they must donate to one of the public or school libraries of their choice. Who gets this award? 13 children's librarians from the Institute's Children's Libraries GroupCILIP ( The Chartered Institute of Library and information Professionals).

In future articles, we will talk about each award, its winners and nominees in more detail.