The Brave Society presented awards to the winners of the Irpen Literary Prize
14.04.2021

The Brave Society presented awards to the winners of the Irpen Literary Prize, founded in 2020. This award was included in the top three of all-Ukrainian literary prizes in terms of the level of monetary reward paid to the winners. At the same time, the Irpin Prize is the first monetary award of all private literary prizes in Ukraine.

It will be recalled that the three winners of the Irpen Literary Prize - winners in the nominations "Prose", "Poetry" and "Literature for Children" - will receive UAH 50,000 each. In addition, LLC "Brave" has set an additional incentive premium of 10 thousand UAH. That is, the total prize fund of the Irpen Literary Prize is UAH 160,000. In the nomination "Literature for Children" the award was given to Olena Tereshchenko with the story "Queen Anna's Box", in the nomination "Prose" the best was the work of Yulia Sheko "Divided in Half", and among the poets the jury awarded Yulia Hryhoruk (collection "Bandaged World").

The Irpen Literary Prize was established by the Investment Council of the city and the Brave Society in order to find new authors to motivate them for further work. The introduction of the nomination "Literature for Children" is due to the fact that the famous children's writer, author of "The Adventures of the Stranger" Mykola Nosov lived in Irpen. In 2020, the jury considered unpublished manuscripts of authors who had not yet published any books, but published their works in collective collections or anthologies. The organizing committee received hundreds of manuscripts from writers from all over Ukraine.