Fazil Iskander International Literary Award

Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander prize)
Awarded forBest Prose, Poetry, Screenplays and Dramaturgy, Childrens and teenage prose, translated prose
Sponsored byRussian PEN Center
VenueBogolyubov Art Library.
Reward(s)100.000 RUB
First awarded2016; 8 years ago (2016)
Last ownerSvetlana Vasilenko, Prose (2021)
Websitepenrus.ru/category/premiya-fazil-iskander/

Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander Prize) (Russian: Международная литературная премия имени Фазиля Искандера) is a literary award for 5 nomination, Best Prose, Poetry, Screenplays and Dramaturgy, Children's and teenage prose, translated prose. The award is financed by the Fund of Cultural Initiatives (2022)[1] Eligible candidates for the award are works of all prose genres, including memoirs, biographies and other documentary prose, written in or translated and screenplays and dramaturgy.[2]

The Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander Prize) was established on August 3, 2016 by the Russian branch of the International "Russian PEN Center".[3]

The aim of the prize is to "perpetuate the memory of the outstanding Russian writer Fazil Iskander with Abkhazian roots",[4] Vice-President of the Russian PEN Center, who "revived the epic structure of literature in the 20th century and innovatively saturated the epic with acutely modern and, at the same time, deeply philosophical content".[5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Fazil Iskander International Literary Prize Funds". {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  2. ^ "Regulations / 1. General issues" Положение / 1. Общие вопросы [Regulations / 1. General issues]. Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander Prize) (in Russian). Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  3. ^ "Fazil Iskander Prize established (rus)".
  4. ^ "Iskander Prize (rus)".
  5. ^ "Literature and the acceptance of faith for Fazil Iskander and other writers".
  6. ^ "About Fazil Iskander International Literary Award".
  7. ^ "Fazil Iskander Literary Award (rus)".