ORANGE BOOK PRIZE SECOND STAGE LAUNCHED

AZG DAILY
19-10-2011

The second stage of the Orange Book Prize 2011 – the public voting
– was launched on October 15. Total of 130 works were received by
Orange during the first stage. As results of the first stage, during
which the Jury had to choose maximum four works in each category,
the following works have been selected.

Novel. ”Change of feather” (Hrach Beglaryan) O~G ”Dog
constellation” (Narine Kroyan)

Fairy tale. ”Inhabitants of Ankimur” (Armine Abrahamyan)

Essay. ”The city ” (Vardan Fereshetyan), ”Bridge to Tanya: the
extraordinary poet and the woman”, (Violet Grigoryan), ”Insomnia in
Paris” (Vahram Martirosyan) and ”The time to jump out of the wagon”
(Armen Shekoyan)

Short story. ”Few hours before death penalty” (Paruyr Santrosyan),
”Dream of the football ball” (Tatev Derzyan), ”Matryoshka”
(Armen Ohanyan), ”96” (Marine Kocharyan)

Screenplay. ” Charents” (Vahram Martirosyan)

On the proposal of the Jury essays and short stories have been divided
into two categories. On the opposite, per each category – fairy tale
and screenplay/play only one creative work has been chosen, which in
its turn is considered to be the winner and will be published.

Visitors can find extracts of these works on Orange website.

Winners in novel, essay and short story nominations will be selected
through online public voting. Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO,
said: ”We congratulate all those who have merited Jury’s estimation
and thank all 130 participants. Starting from now a very interesting
period begins, when all those who like reading will be able to read,
share their opinion and choose which one will be published. This is
an exceptional moment as generally the wide public discovers literary
works after they become books.

The differentiating point of Orange Book Prize is that it is rather
reader’s prize than a literary one. We hope that with public readings,
discussions and meetings with the authors we will involve wide circles
of readers and will stimulate interest towards reading in general.

It’s important, because next year Yerevan will become the world
book capital”.

Starting from October 15 and until November 7th all works being
selected in the first tour will be available on Orange official
webpage: On the same page visitors can
vote for the work they liked, by identifying themselves via Facebook
social network and clicking the ”like” button.

All winning works from each category will be published as a separate
book, printed by quantity of 500. The winners of the contest will be
known during the awards ceremony held on November 11th.

As a reminder, four categories of the contest – short story and
essay, novel, fairy tale, screenplay ‘play, were open to Armenian
residents writing in Armenian and having presented a literary work
never published in the past.

The objective of the contest is to discover Armenian literary works
through the daily evolving electronic media, spread them among
large group of readers and boost interest towards reading. With this
initiative Orange intends to join Yerevan in celebrating book and
reading, in 2012, when Yerevan will be world book capital. Orange Book
Prize will be organized and implemented in cooperation with Armenian
Book Center NGO.