"Enlightener"-2017: final
A book about mental disorders won the "natural" nomination for "Educator"
Dmitry Ivanov, N+1
Daria Varlamova and Anton Zainiev, the authors of the book "Crazy! A guide to mental disorders for a resident of a big city" (Alpina Publisher).
A little later, the winners were announced in another nomination, "Humanities". The award summing-up ceremony takes place in the Gradsky Hall in Moscow. N+1 monitors what is happening from the scene of the event.
Varlamova and Zainiev are not professional psychiatrists, but the most ordinary people who have personally encountered clinical depression – and the lack of adequate information on psychiatry. It was this gap that the book they wrote was supposed to fill. According to the jury members, she was singled out, among other things, for the fact that "Crazy!" works against the stigmatization of people with psychological characteristics.
Three more participants also became finalists of the award in the category "Natural Sciences":
- Drobyshevsky Stanislav, "The Reaching link" (in two volumes). The first book. Monkeys and everything-everything-everything. Moscow: Corpus, 2017. Book two. People. M.: Corpus, 2017.
- Litvak Nelly, Raygorodsky Andrey, "Who needs mathematics? An understandable book about how the digital world works." Moscow: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2017.
- Asya Kazantseva, "Someone is wrong on the Internet! Scientific research of controversial issues". Moscow: Corpus, 2016.
The winner of the award in each of the nominations will receive 700 thousand rubles, the other finalists will be rewarded with cash prizes in the amount of 100 thousand rubles each. Cash certificates in the amount of 130 thousand rubles will be received by the publishers of the laureates' books – under the terms of the award, they will be able to spend them on promoting books on the market. In addition, the Enlightener Prize will send the books of the laureates and finalists to the libraries of the regions of Russia, except Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The jury of the 2017 Enlightener Award, chaired by the Chief Researcher of the FIAN, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexey Semikhatov, included major Russian scientists and public figures: Evgeny Bunimovich, Sergey Mironenko, Vladimir Plungyan and Ekaterina Pomerantseva. The jury also consists of two winners of the "Educator" award last year – Sergey Kavtaradze and Alexander Panchin – and the founder of the award Dmitry Zimin with the right of advisory vote.
Stanislav Drobyshevsky became the winner of the "people's" vote, which took place in the public VK "Obrazovach" and on the N+1 website. He received 647 votes out of 1,866 cast in this category.
The output data and annotations of each book are presented on the award website. N+1, in turn, from July to November of this year published fragments from all twenty-five books that were included in the long list of the award.
The Dmitry Zimin Prize "Educator" for the best popular science book in Russian was established in 2008 by the Dmitry Zimin Foundation for non-profit programs "Dynasty", and since 2016 has been held with the support of the Zimin Foundation. The purpose of the award is to attract readers' attention to the educational genre, encourage authors and create prerequisites for expanding the market of educational literature in Russia. Last year, Alexander Panchin, the author of the book "The Sum of Biotechnology" (Moscow: AST: CORPUS, 2016), became the winner of the prize in the category "Natural Sciences".
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