The NOS(E) Award
announced winners last
week: the jury prize went to Danila Zaitsev’s Повесть
и житие Данилы Терентьевича Зайцева (The Life and Tale of Danila Terentyevich Zaitsev), which I
described like this in previous posts: “In which a Russian Old Believer born in
China and living in Argentina tells his story. A Yasnaya Polyana Award finalist
and Booker longlister.” The text of the first two (of seven) handwritten
notebooks that make up the book—it’s 712 pages (long) in the printed version—is available on Журнальный зал: part 1 and part 2. Based on what
I’ve heard and read about the book, the language may be the most interesting part:
the manuscript was prepared for publication by Olga Rovnova, a linguist who researches
the language of Old Believers in South America.
This year’s readers’ choice award went to Ekaterina Margolis
for Следы на воде (perhaps Ripples in the
Water? or maybe the wake behind a boat or, say, a gondola?). In an earlier post,
I called it “an autobiographical book with Venice. And Moscow. And the ‘river
of human lives,’ as the book’s description says. (excerpt).” Perhaps most interesting
about this win is that Margolis’s book was on the NOS(E) longlist but didn’t
make the shortlist. Hmm.
Up Next: Alisa
Ganieva’s Bride and Groom.
Nice!
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