Finalists announced for the Arsenyev Far East Literature Award

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The Arsenyev Far East Literature Award
The social media accounts of the Arsenyev Far East Literature Award have published the shortlist of works advancing to the next stage of the competition’s eighth season.
The shortlist features three works in each of the three categories: Long Prose, Short Prose and Children’s Prose. Most of the selected works were written by authors from Russia’s Arctic and Far Eastern regions, including Kamchatka, the Primorye, Trans-Baikal and Khabarovsk territories, and the Republic of Buryatia.
The Long Prose category includes The Last Nomadic Camp, The Year of the Black Monkey and Vladimir Arsenyev: “I have decided to share the destiny of my people.”
The Short Prose category features The Sweet Sorrow of the Heart, A Sled Team from the Chardbakh Camp and The Sinner’s Eternal Song.
The jury selected the following works in the Children’s Prose category: St Innocent (Veniaminov), The Formula of the Horizon and Between the Sea and the Land: The Lighthouses of Primorye.
The winners of the eighth season will be announced on December 4 at the traditional awards ceremony at the Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow.
Curator of the Arsenyev Far East Award, Roman Kosygin
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