Yesterday was held Awards ceremony of Orange Book Prize 2011

Yesterday evening the Awards ceremony of Orange Book Prize 2011 was held and the winners names were announced.
Novel. "Dog constellation" (Narine Kroyan) – 924 votes.

Essay. "Bridge to Tanya: the extraordinary poet and the woman", (Violet Grigoryan) – 309 votes

Short story. "Dream of the football ball" (Tatev Derzyan) – 1506 votes

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

Screenplay. "Charents" (Vahram Martirosyan)

All winning works from each category will be published as a separate book, printed by quantity of 500.

During the awards ceremony Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO congratulated the winners and noted: "We followed with great interest discussions that were developing in social networks and other platforms. First of all it reflects the fact that the project is interesting and relevant. As we have said previously, Orange Book Prize is rather reader’s prize than a literary one. During this period we did everything possible to stimulate reading through public readings and discussions. Readers made their choice and we are happy to support publishing the works they selected".

As a reminder, the contest was open to Armenian residents writing in Armenian and having presented a literary work never published in the past. A total of 130 literary works have participated.

In the result of the first stage Jury members should choose maximum four works in each category that have been presented to public vote in the second stage.

Per each category - fairy tale and screenplay/play only one creative work has been chosen by the Jury, which are already considered to be the winner and will be published. Winners of essays, novels and short stories have been selected by on-line voting on Orange website: www.orangearmenia.am/book-prize where visitors have voted for their preferred works through Facebook by clicking the "like" button.

The objective of the contest is to boost interest towards reading, discover Armenain litterarary works through the daily evolving electronic media, spread them among large group of readers. 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.