MOSCOW, January 24 – RIA Novosti. The National Literary Award “The Big Book” announces the start of season 18 and submissions being accepted. You can submit them by February 28, event reports press service.

Novels, short stories, collections of novels and short stories, documentary prose and memoirs signed for publication between January 1, 2022 and February 28, 2023 can be nominated for the competition. The date of creation is not taken into account in manuscripts.

The author(s) of a work, book publishers, mass media, creative associations, writers associations, publishing services, literary agencies/agency, writing schools, co-founders of the Prize, and members of the Jury – the Academy of Letters – the right to nominate.

The long list of nominees will be published by April 30, 2023. The finalists will be announced at the traditional Literature Dinner held on the eve of the Red Square Book Festival in early June.

Three awards and one special award “Contribution to Literature” are given each year. The financial support of the first is three million rubles, the second one and a half million rubles, the third one million rubles.