Agualusa and Shargunov win Yasnaya Polyana literary awards

Angolan writer Jose Eduardo Agualusa won the Yasnaya Polyana Prize's Foreign Literature category for Creole Nation, while Sergei Shargunov received the Contemporary Russian Prose award for Popovich, organizers announced on October 15.

Makhortova translated Creole Nation from Portuguese. The Russian version appeared in the ninth issue of Inostrannaya Literatura magazine in 2021. The author receives 1.2 million rubles and the translator 500,000 rubles.

The Contemporary Russian Prose winner receives 3 million rubles, with a further 1 million shared among shortlisted authors. More than 170 works were submitted for the main category this season.

Marina Chufistova won the Youth category with Father Seryozha. Yulia Poleshchuk received the Overlooked Masterpieces award for her German-to-Russian translation of Gunter Grass's The Rat. That category awards the translator 250,000 rubles and gives the publisher a special diploma.

Maxim Privezentsev won the Readers' Choice prize after his novel Lighthouses of Sakhalin received 55% of the online vote. Svetlana Pavlova's Screenwriter received the special prize chosen by the Girls Are Smarter Than Old Men podcast.