“Korrespondent” magazine announces the winners of the annual

“The Best Ukrainian Book” competition

 

 

This year winners are:

 

Documentaries  Category

1st place: Oksana Zabuzhko. Notre Dame D'Ukraine: Українка в конфлікті міфологій

2nd place: Juriy Andruhovuch. Таємниця

3rd place: Andriy Kokotjuha. Юрій Луценко —  польовий командир

 

Fiction Category

1st place: Yuriy Pokal’chuk. Кама Сутра

2nd place: Sofiya Andruhovych. Сьомга

Yuriy Andruhovych, Lubomyr Deresh, Sergiy Zhadan. Трициліндровий двигун любові

3rd place: Lada Luzina. Киевские ведьмы. Выстрел в опере

 

Annual project of the “Korrespondent” magazine “The Best Ukrainian Book” is the nationwide Ukrainian competition of literary works, published in Ukraine and written by Ukrainian authors. This year books published in 2007 took part in the competition.

During the first stage readers of Korrespondent voted for the best books in two categories: Fiction (novels, stories, collection of stories) and Documentaries (memoirs, biographies, non-fiction). During the second stage Korrespondent editorial selected TOP-10 and subsequently TOP-5 list in each category from readers’ votes.  From this list a competent jury selected the winners. The jury consists of well known Ukrainian literary critics and experts, highlighting literary life in Ukraine, and also famous Ukrainians, who are keen on reading and get interested in books’ novelties.   

 

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The first “The best Ukrainian book” competition took place in 2006.

The winners were:

Documentaries Category: Okasana Zabyzhko (1^st place), Danylo Yanevskiy (2^nd place), sergey Kuzin, Konstantin Stogniy ( shared 3^rd place);

Fiction Category :Taras Prohas’ko (1^st place), Sergey Zhadan (2^nd place), L’ubko Deresh (3^rd place).

 

The winners in 2007 were:

Documentaries Category: Yaroslav Grucak (1^st place), Yuriy Andruhovych (2^nd place), Taras Prohas’ko (3^rd place).

Fiction Category: Larysa Denysenko (1^st place), Kuz’ma Skrjabin (2^nd place), Maryna and Sergey Djachenko (3^rd place).

 

The winners of “The Best Ukrainian Book ” competition received 5,000UAH for the 1^st place,3,200 UAH for the 2^nd place and 1.500 for the 3^rd place.