Francesca Ricchi
2021 Edition
Winner for the Literature sectionFrancesca Ricchi was born in Bologna, lives in Rome. She has a degree in Law with a specialization in Criminology. You have published the collection of stories Soli di notte (Moby Dick, 2000), of which the short story Domani was published in Latin America. He has also published the poetic collection Aculei (Controluna, 2018), the novel L'incanto dei morti (Emersioni, 2019), the novel for children XTrappola-Pirati di Anime (Verduci, 2015), the poem Estranei (Sonzogno, 2001) and stories Me and music (2001) and University Education (2002). With the text The steps of life she has won two prizes: the Minturnae International Prize (2021) and the Pushkin International Prize (2021). With the text L'incanto dei morti, she came second in the International Mediterranean Award-Carical Foundation. Narrative Section (2020). Winner for the book "The Steps of Life"
Andrej Konchalovskij
2021 Edition
Winner for the Cinematography sectionAndrej Končalovskij is a film and theater director, screenwriter and producer. He was born on August 20, 1937 in Moscow and is the son of the famous writers Sergej Michalkov and Natalia Končalovskaya. From 1957 to 1959 he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory and then continued his studies in the field of cinema concluded in 1965 at the VGIK (Pan-Russian State University of Cinematography) as a director (at the laboratory of M.I. Romm). Andrei Končalovskij's works have been distinguished by several Russian and international prizes. The premiere of his new film "Dear comrades!" (2020) was shown at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival receiving the “special jury prize”. Awarded for his cinematographic masterpiece «Sin - Michelangelo's fury».
Igor Ladojanine
2021 Edition
Winner for the Art sectionHe was born in 1962 in Kirovsk, St. Petersburg, where at the age of twenty he graduated from the “Serov” School of Art and where in 1992 he graduated in Classical Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts with master Evsey Moiseenko. After some exhibitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Helsinki, in 1993 he successfully inaugurated his first solo exhibition in Malta. Paintings by Igor Ladojanine are present in museums and collections in Italy, France, Germany, Russia, the United States and other countries, also present in the private collections of: The President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano (painting "Piazza del Quirinale"); Cardinal Zenon Grokholevsky (painting "Glimpse of Rome"); Prince Niccolò Boncompagni Ludovisi (painting "Roman Countryside"). Igor Ladojanine lives and works in Rome. Awarded for his wonderful landscape painting.
Giulia De Florio
2021 Edition
Winner for the Scientific Research and Translation sectionHe obtained a Master's Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the Catholic University of Milan and a PhD in Text Sciences at the "Sapienza" University of Rome. She has taught Russian language, translation and literature at the universities of Viterbo, Macerata, Florence, Milan, Parma and is currently a researcher at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journals "AvtobiografiЯ", "Detskie čtenija" and "Accents and Paradoxes" and a member of the jury of the "Kul'turnyj most" project for bilingual Italian-Russian children. She is the author of the Bulat Okudžava monograph. Life and destiny of a poet with a guitar (SquiLibri 2019) and numerous essays and scientific articles in national and international magazines. She was awarded for the translation of Letters by F. Dostojevskij on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Alice Farina
2021 Edition
Winner for the Scientific Research and Translation sectionAlice Farina was born and studied in Pisa, where she graduated in Literary Translation from the Russian language. After attending the Master in Book Publishing of the Mondadori Foundation, University of Milan and AIE, she begins to work for various publishing houses as a press office. At the beginning of 2014 she arrives at Il Saggiatore where she currently plays the role of Head of the communication office. Awarded for the translation of Letters by F. Dostojevskij on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth
Elena Freda Piredda
2021 Edition
Winner for the Scientific Research and Translation sectionSince 2009 she has been a collaborator for the teaching of the Russian language at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and since 2020 she has been a professor of Russian at the Higher School for Linguistic Mediators "P. M. Loria ". You also taught at the University of Parma and at the CIELS Higher School for Linguistic Mediators in Milan. Together with Giulia De Florio, she translated The triumph of metaphysics (Salani, 2013). You collaborated on the Grammar of use of the Russian language, A1 (Hoepli, 2018) by Natalia Nikitina and edited, together with Anna Krasnikova, the Italian version of the volume Raz, dva, tri! (Hoepli, 2019) by Anna Shibarova and Alexander Yarin. You also edited the collection of stories by Lev Tolstoy We must live and be happy (Hoepli, 2021). Awarded for the translation of Letters by F. Dostojevskij on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth
Zurab Tsereteli
2021 Edition
Winner for the Sculpture sectionZurab Tzereteli was born in Tbilisi in 1934. In 1952 he enrolled at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. He soon became the leading tourist artist of Georgia and worked for many countries, including the USA, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy. He receives numerous prizes and awards, including: the USSR State Prize (1970); title "Hero of Socialist Labor" (1990); title of "Popular Artist of the Russian Federation" (1994); Picasso Award from UNESCO (1994); III degree "Al Merito per la Patria" order (1996); Vermeille Medal and Grand Bronze Medal of the City of Paris (1998); 2000 award for Modern Art "International Recognition" and "Golden Hand" award in France (2000); State Award of Georgia (2004); appointment as Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor of France (2010). Works in Italy: monument to Gogol in Rome (2002); statue of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bari (2003); sculpture "Clowns" (2014) in Morciano di Romagna. In 2009 he was awarded the first public prize "Ponte d’Oro" for the most significant contribution to the consolidation and development of relations between the Italian Republic and the Russian Federation. He won the Pushkin Prize for the construction of his three monuments dedicated to the "Bel Paese": the statue of Gogol 'in Rome, the statue of Umberto Boccioni and Marciano di Romagna and of San Nicolò in Bari.
Sergej Bezrukov
2021 Edition
Winner for the Actor sectionRussian film and theater actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is the People's Artist of Russia and awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997). In 1994 he completed his studies at the acting faculty of the МХАТ (Moscow Art Theater) and specialized as a "film actor and dramatic theater" (laboratory of Oleg Pavlovič Tabakov). The shots that contributed to making him famous are those of the TV series Brigata (2002), "Azazel '" (2002), Uchastok (2003), Il maestro e Margherita (2005) Esenin (2005), Čërnye volki (2011), Godunov (2019). It is also famous thanks to artist films such as Pushkin, the last duel (2006), Match, Mamy, V ijune 41, Vysockij, thanks for being alive (2011), Holidays under strict regime, Almiral, Posle tebja , Zapovednik. He is artistic director at the Moscow Provincial Dramatic Theater, founder and director of the Stanislavsky Factory Summer Festival of Provincial Theaters as well as director of the Great International Children's Festival and president of the federal council for the realization of the projects The culture of the small homeland and Theater for children . Awarded for his interpretation of some classic roles such as the poets Pushkin and Esenin.
Mattia Indiveri
2021 Edition
Winner for the Unknown Poet section - SillogeFrancesco Mattia Indiveri graduated from the Vermigli linguistic high school in Zurich in the 2018/2019 school year with 98/100, winning a scholarship as best student. Since the age of 12 he has tried his hand at writing poetry and songs. With this first collection of his poems he decides to expose himself to the public. Reward in the section «Unknown poets» for Silloge
Maria Cristina Monforte
2021 Edition
Winner for the Unknown Poet sectionMaria Cristina Monforte was born in Rome where she lives and works. She has participated in numerous literary salons and poetry workshops, studying, among other things, the Italian poets of the 1900s and the poetic avant-gardes of the 2000s to the present day. She is a fervent student of Dante, in particular of the Divine Comedy and of the Vita Nova, of which she has elaborated a paraphrase and a personal comment. She is translating many of her poems for her own critical edition. At the same time she is dedicating herself to the biography of another great Italian poet of the twentieth century, Cristina Campo. She writes about literary criticism in some trade magazines. It has been published in various contemporary anthologies. She loves dance in all its forms and has practiced for many years the historical dance of nineteenth-century re-enactment, taught by her master according to the philological dictates of period manuals, with particular attention to the choreography of English and Scottish dances of the period of the English Regency (Regency dances) up to waltzes, contradances, mazurkas and polkas. She loves the philosophy that she believes to be an indispensable condition for a poet for the elaboration of lyrical thought together with inspired intuition and its metric and elegiac translation. Maria Cristina Monforte is the first winner of the Pushkin Prize 2021 in the "Unknown poets" section for the single poem "Isole"
Maria Grazia Zambianchi
2021 Edition
Winner for the Unknown Poet sectionMaria Grazia Zambianchi was born in Borgonovo in the province of Piacenza on January 28, 1964. Maria Grazia has a degree in Pedagogy. A year ago she took part in the recitation of poems by authors chosen by herself dedicated to the Poetry Museum of Piacenza which is located in the former church of San Cristoforo in via Gregorio X, a museum founded by the philosopher Massimo Silvotti and the winner of important prizes for the poem Sabrina De Canio. Since Maria Grazia Zambianchi has been writing poems for herself for some years now, she has decided to write some and to take part in this great competition of the Friends of the Great Russia Association, considering it very interesting, especially because the award is named after a great writer. Maria Grazia Zambianchi is the second winner of the Pushkin Prize 2021 in the section «Unknown poets» for the single poem «Un Addio».
Gertrude Persiani
2021 Edition
Winner for the Unknown Poet sectionGeltrude Persiani won the First Prize of the Literary Competition of the European Cultural Academy in June 2010, and received a special mention for the Italian and vernacular categories. In April 2014, the President of the "E’ Time for Culture "Association, Mrs. Nadia Angelini, commented on the presentation of the book of poems by Geltrude Persiani, Being and Becoming (Edizioni Aletti 2012). In June 2017, Ms. Geltrude Persiani won the First and Third Prize of the Literary Competition at the Panta Cultura Cultural Association. She received the Pushkin Prize in the «Unknown Poets» section for the single poem «Aranjuez».
Evgenij Solonovich
2019 Edition
Winner for the Literature sectionBorn February 21, 1933 in Simferopol (USSR). Graduated in Moscow from the State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1956. Poet, translator, member of the Moscow Writers' Union, Professor Honoris causa of the University of Siena. Doctor Honoris causa of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", author of the collection of poems “Between today and once”, he translated the poems of Dante, Petrarca, fragments of Ariosto's “Orlando Furioso”, poets of the Italian Baroque, Romanesque sonnets by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, poems and prose of the Nobel Prize Eugenio Montale. His anthology “Italian poets translated by EvgenijSolonovich” is a kind of guide to Italian poetry from Dante to today. Commander of the order of Star of Italian solidarity, awarded several Italian literary prizes, including the National Prize for the translation of the Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Heritage (1966), as well as the Russian awards "Illuminator" (2001), of the magazine "Oktjabr ' ”(2009),“ The Book of the Year ”(2011),“ Ve- nec ”(2011),“ Master ”(2012) and“ Anthologia ”(2016).
Galina Evtushenko
2019 Edition
Winner for the Art sectionBorn in Voronezh, Galina Evtushenko graduated in Literature from the University of Voronezh and received her PhD in Arts Sciences from the prestigious Moscow State Institute of Cinematography. She has worked at the Central State Documentary Film Studio and the “Mos fi lm” Film Center, in various film archives in Krasnogorsk and in the State film archives. You founded the “Roza” film studio. She is a member of the Association of Directors of the Russian Federation and of ICOM. She has received numerous prestigious awards at home, such as "Nike" and "Golden Eagle", the Moscow City Award for her activity in the field of literature and art. For the film "The sculpted image" (Zapečatlennyjobraz) about Leo Tolstoy and the sculptor Il'ja Ginzburg in 2014 you received the special prize of the prestigious "AVICOM" competition. She was also awarded the honorary title of “Emeritus Artist of the Russian Federation” by President V.V. Putin in 2016. G. Evtushenko - the director and film producer of the 30 documentaries and 2 films. She is currently working on a project on the relationship between Russian and Italian culture, in particular with Bologna.
Emilio Mari
2019 Edition
Winner for the Scientific Research sectionEmilio Mari trained at the "Sapienza" University of Rome. In 2017 he obtained the title of PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" and since the same year he has been an adjunct professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Tuscia and the University of International Studies of Rome. Since 2019 he has been a TDa Researcher in Slavic Studies at the University of International Studies of Rome. He participates as a speaker and organizer in numerous national and international conferences, seminars and study days; he is a member of the editorial board of magazines and editorial series. He deals with popular culture, folklore and mass culture of the 19th-20th centuries; poetry and theater of Russian modernism; semiotics of space; relationships between literature, landscape and architectural-urbanistic imaginary; peasant literature and the Cultural Revolution in the USSR. He is a member of the Italian Association of Slavists.
Maria Letizia De Simone
2019 Edition
Winner for the Unknown Poet sectionMaria Letizia De Simone, born on 27-10-1961, lived between Rome, her hometown and Guidonia Montecelio. After she obtained her master's degree, she worked for many years as an administrative clerk in various private firms. Married in 1986, she led a peaceful and harmonious family life, which would continue until her departure. Her self-confident and intellectually lively personality led her to perfect and broaden her knowledge in the cultural field and to observe, often with self-irony, the vicissitudes and social changes. In this context, she began to write poems and short stories ever since. From the beginning of the 2000s, struck by rheumatoid arthritis, when her work commitment ceased, she devoted herself to writing and graphic processing of images with the aid of computerized means, but her activity often remained at the inside the house walls. In 2015 she fell ill with cancer and despite the fact that she had fought the disease until the last time and kept serenity and a smile, she passed beyond 9/28/2016. The poems contained in the collection were written between 2010 and 2016, and represent a significant sample of her largest production.
Alberto Dionisi
2019 Edition
Winner for the Unknown Poet sectionItalian writer and journalist, born in Rome in 1953. After attending university courses at the LaSapienza University of Rome and the University of Atri, he works as head of External Relations for a company operating in the industrial forestry sector. An official of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, he was a teacher of the “Geography of Football” at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy for the Degree Course in Human Geography. He has written books on football with the theme of rules and pedagogy. He has collaborated with various newspapers and participated in multiple radio and television broadcasts on RAI and SKY. For 9 years manager of AS ROMA football.
Eliana Stendardo
2019 Edition
Winner for the Unknown Poet sectionBorn in Naples in 1968, Eliana Stendardo graduated from the Higher School of Interpreters and Translators. She currently works at the Ceremonial Office of the Rectorate of the University of Naples Federico II, and she cultivates a self-taught passion for writing. For some years now you have occasionally and at an amateur level been involved in the revision of articles, books and texts of various kinds. In 2017 she was Lector Judge of the Napoli Prize; in the same year and in 2018 she was part of the Jury of Strong Readers of the National Literary Competition organized by Book Tribu. Several short stories and poems have been selected for publication on the web or in anthologies AA.VV. on paper or e-book.
Alexey M. Bukalov
2017 Edition
Winner for the Literature sectionRussian writer and journalist. Born in 1940 in Leningrad (Petersburg). After graduating from the Moscow Institute of International Relations in 1963 and 15 years in the diplomatic service (in Somalia and Ethiopia) he devoted himself to journalism. In the post-Soviet period, since December 1991 - director of the Roman representation of the Russian press agency TASS. Author, among other things, of the book "Somali Quaderno" (UNESCO, 1975) and of many studies dedicated to the theme "Foreign Pushkin". He also deals with the adventures of Pinocchio in Russia and is part of the journalistic pool of the Holy See on papal trips abroad (diary "With the popes around the world", 2016). Member of the Russian section of the international "PEN-club" of writers. In 2000 he was awarded the "Pushkin Medal" with the Russian state honor.
Natalia Tsarkova
2017 Edition
Winner for the Art sectionThe painter Natalia Tsarkova, heir to the classical figurative tradition of the great masters, was born in Moscow where at the age of 10 she entered the Lyceum of Fine Arts and then attended, the only woman to obtain admission, the courses of the prestigious Academy of Art. Arrived in Italy to deepen her artistic studies, she decides to settle in Rome, she soon becomes an international portrait painter with commissions ranging from ruling houses to aristocracy, from statesmen to cardinals up to becoming the official painter of the Popes. In 2012, her first book "The Mystery of a Small Pond" was published, which received particular appreciation from Pope Benedict XVI. Natalia Tsarkova has painted numerous personalities of Russian culture, including, in 1999, A.S. Pushkin on the occasion of his 200th birthday.
Alessandra Carbone
2017 Edition
Winner for the Scientific Research sectionAlessandra Carbone graduated in 2007 with full marks from the University of Pisa; in 2011, after having lived for about a year and a half between Moscow and St. Petersburg to carry out her research, she obtained a PhD in Slavic Studies (Russian literature), with a thesis on M. Ju. Lermontov and French literature of the late eighteenth century. Since 2012 she has been a professor of Russian literature at the University of Cassino, since 2013 she has been teaching Russian at the University of Pisa; she is currently Professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Pisa and the University of Siena (Arezzo branch). She carries out research activities at the major libraries and archives of the Russian Federation, and have participated as a speaker at numerous international conferences and conventions.
Antonella Anedda
2014 Edition
Winner for the Literature sectionAntonella Anedda (Anedda Angioy) currently lives in Rome where she graduated in literature with a thesis in the history of modern art. She and she is Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She teaches courses at the University of Italian Switzerland. His first book of poetry Winter Residences published by Crocetti with a preface by Arnaldo Colasanti has been the subject of critical recognition by Italianists such as Peter Hainsworth and poets such as Amelia Rosselli. The second volume of poetry Western Peace Nights which is awarded the 2000 Montale Prize confirms her work as one of the most important in Italian poetry. His latest book of poetry Salva con nome was awarded, among others, the Viareggio-Repaci prize in 2012 and the "Pushkin" International Prize in 2014. Among the essays published: The life of details (Donzelli, 2009), La luce delle things (Feltrinelli, 2000) and Isolatria (Laterza, 2013). Translations and variations from classical and modern poets, particularly Russian, are collected in the volume Nomi distanti (1998) A volume of verses, Historiae, will soon be published by Einaudi. The anthology, Archipelago (Bloodaxe, U.K, 2014) translated by poet Jamie McKendrick won the John Florio Prize, 2016.