Orange Book Prize: organizers received 130 works

The reception of applications for participation in Orange Book Prize 2011 is now close. Organizers have received a total of 130 works, out of which 79 short stories and essays, 16 fairy tales, 24 screenplays and 11 novels. Now is beginning the period of Jury reading and evaluating the works. After that maximum four best works in each category will be selected and presented to large readers’ estimation on October 7, during the book festival "Back to book". Winners will be selected based on on-line vote.

As a reminder, four nominations of the contest – short story and essay, novel, fairy tale, screenplay’play, were open to armenian residents writing in armenian and having presented a litterary work never published in the past.

All four winner 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, on November 11.

The objective of the contest is to discover Armenain litterarary works, through the daily evoluating 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.