Maria Stepanova receives the Bolshaya Kniga Award

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04.12.2018

The Russian writer and poet Maria Stepanova has been awarded the most renowned Russian literary prize, the Bolshaya Kniga Award (The Great Book), for her novel Post-Memory. The main award includes a prize money of 3 million rouble. The award was founded in 2005; winners of past years include Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Mikhail Shishkin and Alexander Ilitschewski with his novel Pers.

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Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. She has been a formative figure in Moscow’s cosmopolitan literary scenefor a good twenty years. Following the success of her first prose work Памяти памяти, she is now internationally regarded as one of Europe's most important intellectual voices.

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Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. She has been a...

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