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Super-NOS Literary Prize Debate
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Please join us for Super-NOS, an evening of exciting literary debate dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Russian literary prize NOS (Новая словесность/New Prose). This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation.
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The NOS Annual Literature Prize was founded by the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation in 2009 to discover and support new trends in contemporary Russian fiction.
PROGRAM
6:00pm – Pre-reception
7:00pm – Debate
In the process of the evening’s debate, the jury of experts will select a winner from the following previous recipients of the NOS Annual Literature Prize:
2009: Лена Элтанг «Каменные клены» (Lena Eltang, Stone Maples)
2010: Владимир Сорокин «Метель» (Vladimir Sorokin, The Blizzard)
2011: Вишневецкий Игорь. «Ленинград», (Igor Vishnevetsky, Leningrad)
2012: Рубинштейн Лев «Знаки внимания», Lev Rubinshtein, Signs of Attention)
2013: Андрей Иванов «Харбинские мотыльки» (Andrei Ivanov, Harbin Moths)
2014: Алексей Цветков-младший «Король утопленников» (Alexei Tsvetkov Jr., The King of the Drowned)
2015: Данила Зайцев «Повесть и житие Данилы Терентьевича Зайцева» (Danila Zaitsev, The Story and Life of Danila Terentievich Zaitsev)
2016: Борис Лего «Сумеречные рассказы» (Boris Lego, Twilight Stories)
2017: Владимир Сорокин «Манарага», (Vladimir Sorokin, Manaraga)
2018: Мария Степанова «Памяти памяти», (Maria Stepanova, Memory: In Memoriam)
Debate moderated by Irina Prokhorova and Mark Lipovetsky
Super-NOS Jury
Chair: Anna Narinskaya, literary critic (Moscow)
Polina Barskova (Hampshire College/ Amherst College/Smith College)
Eliot Borenstein (New York University)
Alexander Genis (Radio Liberty)
Sergei Oushakine (Princeton University)
Lara Vapnyar (Columbia University)
Graduate Experts
Chair: Tomi Haxhi (Columbia University)
Tatiana Efremova (New York University)
Natalia Klimova (Princeton University)
Max Lawton (Columbia University)