The eighth season of the international literary competition of small prose “Ethnopero” in the Interanational Library has ended.

On December 10, a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners took place.

This year‘s experts of the competition were Tatiana Vladimirovna Gorkunova, a poet and novelist, author of books for children, member of the Writers‘ Union of Russia, winner of the Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin–Sibiryak All-Russian Literary Prize and the award of the head of the Yekaterinburg Archdiocese in the field of culture and art. art (in the nomination “Family Values“); as well as Yuri Sergeevich Kostylev, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, senior researcher at the toponymic laboratory of the Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, participant of several dozen scientific expeditions to various, mostly northern, regions of Russia (in the main nomination). They talked about the merits of the winners‘ works, analyzed the style, vocabulary and overall impression of them, and warmly congratulated the authors. The authors themselves responded: Yulia Igorevna Fedorova (Russia, Sverdlovsk region, Yekaterinburg) – second place in the nomination “Family Values“ for the work of “Ittarma“; Fyodor Ivanovich Pavlov, creative pseudonym Bogdan Maloy, (Russia, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Tattinsky ulus, village of Ittyk–Kyuel) third place mainly Natalia Alexandrovna Olesk (Russia, Primorsky Krai, Vladivostok) won the second place for her work “The Tale of the Blue Bird, or How they Searched for Paradise in Ussuriysk“ and Maria Sergeevna Klimenko (Russia, Chelyabinsk Region, Magnitogorsk) for her work “Operation North“. The ensemble “Officer‘s Trio“ and the ethno–duo “Citizens“ congratulated the winners with excellent musical numbers. Our authors are talented, empathetic and very fond of their characters. The Sverdlovsk Regional Interethnic Library expresses its deep gratitude to everyone who joined the Ethnopero contest. Participation in this event unites us, the citizens of a huge and distinctive country and the whole vast world.