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Lyudmila Svirskaya from the Czech Republic won the title of the best poet at International Pushkin in Britain poetry festival, TASS reports. She is to take part at a literary festival in Bali. Boris Fabrikant from the UK ranked second. The third place went to Sergey Kraynev from Serbia.
The author, organizer and mastermind behind the festival is a Maxim Gorky Literature Institute graduate and writer Oleg Borushko. This year the event was held with the participation of Russkiy Mir Foundation, the Russian federal cultural agency, the Russian embassy in the UK and was supported by Special Representative of the Russian President for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi.
The tournament of the Russian poets abroad became the main event of the festival. The results were announced in the most famous parish church of the British capital, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, at the corner of Trafalgar Square.
According to the rules, the participants were to create a poem by interpreting one of Alexander Pushkin’s lines proposed in advance by the organizers. This year the chosen line was "Don’t let my soul indulge in empty talks…"
The special prize of the festival’s frequent juror, poetess Rimma Kazakova, went to Sergei Martunov from Ireland. This award marks the best love poem. Nina Rusanova from Spain received the audience prize.
The Ekaterina Genieva prize went to Yaroslava Favorskaya from Israel
International Pushkin in Britain poetry festival has been regularly held during 15 years. Its aim is to popularize the works of Pushkin, promote Russian culture in Europe and to search for talented poets among representatives of the Russian community in foreign countries. Only authors living abroad writing in Russian have the right to participate and compete for the title of king of poets.
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