The shortlist of the Educator Award 2017 has been announced
A special nomination "EDUCATOR. UNFORMATTED"
The shortlist of the tenth anniversary season of the award traditionally includes 8 books, 4 in each of the two nominations - "Natural and Exact Sciences" and "Humanities".
The list was announced by: Chairman of the jury Alexey Semikhatov, Evgeny Bunimovich, Sergey Kavtaradze, Sergey Mironenko, Alexander Panchin, Vladimir Plungyan, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Dmitry Zimin (with the right of advisory vote).
Finalists in the nomination "Natural and Exact Sciences" become:
1. Stanislav Drobyshevsky, "The Missing Link" (in two volumes).
The first book. Monkeys and everything-everything-everything. Moscow: Corpus, 2017
Stanislav Drobyshevsky, "The Missing Link" (in two volumes). Book two. People. M.: Corpus, 2017
2. Daria Varlamova, Anton Zainiev, "It's crazy! A guide to mental disorders for a resident of a big city". Moscow: Alpina Publisher, 2016
3. Nelly Litvak, Andrey Raigorodsky, "Who needs mathematics? A clear book about how the digital world works." Moscow: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2017
4. Asya Kazantseva, "Someone is wrong on the Internet! Scientific research of controversial issues". Moscow: Corpus, 2016
Finalists in the nomination "Humanities" become:
1. Alyona Kozlova, Nikolay Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, Irina Shcherbakova, "The sign will not be erased.
The fate of ostarbeiters in letters, memoirs and oral stories". Moscow: Agey Tomesh Publishing House, 2016
2. Tim Skorenko, "Invented in Russia. The History of Russian inventive thought from Peter I to Nicholas II". Moscow: Alpina non-fiction, 2017
3. Ivan Kurilla, "History, or the Past in the present". St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the European University in St. Petersburg, 2017
4. Alexander Pipersky, "The construction of languages. From Esperanto to Dothraki". Moscow: Alpina non-fiction, 2017
According to the rules, each finalist receives a cash prize of 100 thousand rubles, each winner – 700 thousand rubles. The publishers of the laureates' books are awarded with a cash certificate of 130 thousand rubles for the promotion of books on the market.
In addition, as part of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Enlightener Award, it was decided to award prizes in the special nomination "ENLIGHTENER. UNFORMATTED".
"Every year we send books to the libraries of the country that present fragments of the scientific worldview to the general reader," explains Alexander Gavrilov, co–chairman of the organizing committee of the award. – And every year we regretfully postpone books addressed for various reasons to narrow reader segments: too complex, too voluminous, sometimes even too beautiful. And so, for the sake of the anniversary, we allowed ourselves to confess our love to them once, too."
Laureates in the nomination "EDUCATOR. UNFORMATTED" become:
1. Yuri Brodsky, "Solovki.
The Labyrinth of transformations". Novaya Gazeta Publishing House, Moscow, 2017
2. Inessa Grigalyunene, editor-compiler, "Mathematical walks: a collection of interviews". Paulsen Publishing House. Moscow, 2017
3. Natalia Zazulina, "Through the lens of time: The Pontiff is the Apostle of Peace." Rudomino Book Center Publishing House, Moscow, 2017
4. Alexander Semenov, "The Magical world of Cold seas". Paulsen Publishing House, Moscow, 2017
5. Eugene Steiner, "Hokusai Manga. Encyclopedia of Old Japanese Life in pictures". Publishing House "Petersburg Oriental Studies", St. Petersburg, 2016
Information partner of the evening "SNOB" he presented a special prize "Editors' Choice", which went to Evgeny Steiner and his book "Manga Hokusaya. The story of old Japanese life in pictures".
Plans for the future were shared by the founder of the prize "Educator, member of the organizing committee with the right of advisory vote Dmitry Zimin: "Our award began when the genre of non-fiction in our literature did not exist at all, and was aimed at stimulating the scientific community. Today, popular science literature has become one of the most popular sections of literature, and I think that in the future we may make a special nomination for books translated from foreign languages: there are a huge number of them, and we want to involve our colleagues in order to help readers navigate through all this diversity. I hope it will work out!" he said optimistically.
The winners of the Enlightener Award will be announced at the award ceremony on November 16.
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