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“This is a question with which every thinking, feeling Russian I know is wrestling these days.”
“The Dar Prize not only proclaims this truth, but works to make it a viable and visible reality.”
“Mikhail Shishkin, one of the co-founders of the Dar Prize and chairs its jury, is undoubtedly one of the Russian language’s greatest living literary titans.”
“His assessment of literature inside of Russia today is stark.”
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“The Russian language and Russian literature do not belong to the Russian state, and they certainly are not the possessions of the Putin regime.”
“At the center of the novel is the Naidenov family of Moscow.”
“The three winners of this year’s Dar Prize—and the shortlisted books as well—reveal the complexity of the canon taking shape.”
“All three of this year’s winners (the Jury awarded all three after they tied) wrestle with questions of war and its impact.”
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“Such a designation constitutes one of our era’s most respectable distinctions.”
“Meaning that I hope desperately that it too will be translated into English (and other commercially viable languages), but I also worry that it will find the right translator.”
“To bear witness to horrors visited on us by those forces at work in the world that would strip us of our humanity is perhaps the best act of human-ness open to us.”
“But this is undoubtedly one of nationalism’s many lies.”
“The writers honored by the Dar Prize are all, in different ways, recording a catastrophe.”
“Alexandra Krashevskaya’s A Lullaby for Mariupol (Freedom Letters, 2024) perhaps takes on the issue most directly.”
“In the year the war in Ukraine begins, a new member of the family arrives.”
“More importantly perhaps, the prize offers the winners translation into English, German, and French—the languages of the international book market—and hence access to a global audience.”
“Writing in response to questions sent to him by me via email, he notes that “…living literature has been outlawed.”