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The Pushkin Prize ceremony will take place in Rome on Thursday, October 10, TASS reports. It is founded by the cultural association Friends of Great Russia, supported by the Russkiy Mir Foundation and the Mayor's Office of Rome in 2015. The award is presented every two years.
The winners are determined in four categories: Literature, Art, Scientific Works and The Unknown Poet.
In 2019, the prize will go to Evgeny Solonovich. He is noted for translating the works of Dante, Petrarch and the previously unpublished Giuseppe Joachino Belli into Russian. Another winner is director Galina Yevtushenko, creator of the documentary film Pushkin Italy. The young professor Emilio Marie won the prize for his book entitled From Village to City. The landscape and folk culture of St. Petersburg, 1830-1917.
This year's laureates of the International Pushkin Prize dedicated the award to the journalist and Pushkin’s creative researcher Alexey Bukalov, who passed away at the end of 2018. For almost two decades, he led the Italian representative office of TASS. Galina Yevtushenko recalled that her work is based on the book of the same name by Bukalov. The journalist was a co-author of the book. Warm words addressed to Bukalov were pronounced by Evgeny Solonovich, recalling their strong friendship.
Alexey Bukalov won the Pushkin Prize in 2017.
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