Yerevan/Mediamax/. The second stage of the Orange Book Prize 2011 - the public voting - is launched. Total of 130 works were received by Orange during the first stage.
Winners in novel, essay and short story nominations will be selected through online public voting.
“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 differenciating 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”, Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO, said.
Until November 7th all works being selected in the first tour will be available on Orange official webpage: www.orangearmenia.am/book-prize. 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.
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 Armenain litterarary 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.
