Fazil Iskander International Literary Award
Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander Prize) (Russian: Международная литературная премия имени Фазиля Искандера) is a literary award for 5 nomination, Best Prose, Poetry, Screenplays and Dramaturgy, Children's and teenage prose, translated prose. The award is financed by of the Fund of Cultural Initiatives (2022) Acceptable candidates for the award are works of all prose genres, including memoirs, biographies and other documentary prose, written in or translated and screenplays and dramaturgy.
| Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander prize) | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Prose, Poetry, Screenplays and Dramaturgy, Childrens and teenage prose, translated prose |
| Sponsored by | Russian PEN Center |
| Venue | Bogolyubov Art Library. |
| Reward(s) | 100.000 RUB |
| First awarded | 2016 |
| Last owner | Svetlana Vasilenko, Prose (2021) |
| Website | penrus |
The Fazil Iskander International Literary Award (Iskander Prize) was established on August 3, 2016 by the Russian branch of the International "Russian PEN Center".
The aim of the prize is to "perpetuate the memory of the outstanding Russian writer Fazil Iskander with Abkhazian roots", Vice-President of the Russian PEN Center, who "revived the epic structure of literature in the 20th century and innovatively saturated the epic with acutely modern and, at the same time, deeply philosophical content".