Yasnaya Polyana is a writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy. It is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, Russia, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) from Moscow.
Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her books and films, including the novels My Year of Meats (1998), All Over Creation (2003), A Tale for the Time Being (2013), and The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021) seek to integrate personal narrative and social issues, and deal with themes relating to science, technology, environmental politics, race, religion, war and global popular culture. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. She teaches creative writing at Smith College where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of English Language and Literature.
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin, writing as Zakhar Prilepin, and sometimes using another pseudonym, Yevgeny Lavlinsky, is a Russian writer, politician and paramilitary leader.
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909.
Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov was the last secretary of Leo Tolstoy and his biographer. He served as the director of several literary museums and actively participated in Tolstoyan and pacifist initiatives. Endured imprisonment under the Tsarist regime and internment in a Nazi camp. For the last 20 years of his life, he assumed the role of the head at the Yasnaya Polyana museum.
The Alexander Nevsky prize is a Russian national annual historical-literary competition, established in 2004, named after saint prince of Russia Alexander Nevsky. Russian National historical-literary prize "Alexander Nevsky" includes two awards: literature and historical writing & museum memorial projects.
Lev Alexandrovich Anninsky was a Soviet and Russian literary critic, historian, publicist, essayist and author of more than 30 books. He was also a scriptwriter, and as such the three times TEFI laureate.
Sankya is a 2006 novel by the Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin. Sankya is a story about Sasha Tishin, member of The Founders - revolutionary organization, similar to National Bolshevik Party.
A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.
Nikolay Kononov is a Russian writer and journalist. He was editor-in-chief of The Firm's Secret from 2014 to 2017, then editorial director until 2018. The author of four books: Deux Sine Machina: Stories of 20 crazy people who made business in Russia from scratch (2011), Code of Durov. The real story of the social network "VKontakte" and its creator (2012), Author, scissors, paper. How to write impressive texts quickly. 14 lessons (2017), The Uprising (2019), and The Night We Fled (2022).
Anton Aleksandrovich Utkine is a Russian writer and director of documentary film born on March 24, 1967, in Moscow.
Pavel Valeryevich Basinsky is a Russian writer and literary critic. Member of the Union of Russian Writers (1993), academician of the Academy of Russian Literature (1997). Member of the permanent jury of the Solzhenitsyn Prize (1997). The author of the most complete uncensored biography of Maxim Gorky, published in 2005. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2018).
Valentin Yakovlevich Kurbatov was a Russian literary critic, prose writer, jury member of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, member of the Writers' Union of Russia. He was also member of the Public Chamber of Russia from 2010 to 2014 and member of the Presidential Council for Culture. He was holder of the Medal of Pushkin, Order of Friendship and laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2020) in the field of literature.
Dmitri Vladimirovich Chorny is a Russian historic preservation activist, journalist, poet, and writer. He is also a musician. He is a member of the United Communist Party. He is a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the United Communist Party. He was a member of the Central Committee of the United Communist Party (2017–2018).
The Read Russia Prize awards are made every two years for outstanding translations of Russian literature into foreign languages.
Narine Abgaryan (Armenian: Նարինե Յուրիի Աբգարյան is a Russian writer and blogger of Armenian origin. In 2011, Abgaryan was a nominee of Big Book and Laureate of Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, Russia, in 2016.
Oleg Yermakov is a Russian writer. He was born in Smolensk in 1961, and worked in a forest reserve near Lake Baikal before doing his military service during the war in Afghanistan. His experiences formed the basis of an acclaimed collection of short stories, titled Afghan Stories (1991). He followed up with a novel, The Mark of the Beast (1994) which was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. His war writing has been compared to that of Tolstoy and the literature of the Vietnam War.
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 of the Fund of Cultural Initiatives (2022) Acceptable 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.
Galina Leonidovna Yuzefovich is a Russian literary critic, teacher, and columnist. She is the daughter of two prominent Russian writers Anna Berdichevskaya and Leonid Yuzefovich.
Yelena Alexandrovna Katishonok is an American Russian-language writer, author of three books of poetry, six novels and one book of short stories.
