Kaliningrad – The narrator from Viterbo, Maria Belli with Gaia ‘Limen’ and translator from Treviso Francesca Gasparini’s readaptation of ‘jelly and vodka’ (by Alexei Artem’ev) are the winners of the Italian section of the 7th Raduga Award, the literary under-35 competition sponsored by Meeting Eurasia Association of Verona and the Gorky literary Institute in Moscow. Among the winners from the Russian section are: the 34-year old narrator Aleksandr Vladimirovich Evsjukov, with his unpublished ‘Witch’ and translator Jana Alexandrovna Ar’kova a Moscow native whose translation of the Gaia Maria Belli story into Russian won the category ‘Young translator of the year”; announced in Kaliningrad, in the gothic cathedral of Königsberg. The Raduga Award was established in 2010 to promote cultural exchange between Italy and Russia. It has distinguished itself over the years as one of the most attended literary events and in 2016 reached a record of 592 talented young people from both countries. (9Colonne)
