The book “The Squires-Sorcerers” by Volodymyr Rutkivsky topped the book rating of the “2009 LitAccent of the Year”

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The book “The Squires-Sorcerers” by Volodymyr Rutkivsky topped the book rating of the “2009 LitAccent of the Year”

Jan 27, 2010

“The LitAccent of the Year” is the award, founded by the “LitAkcent web portal”. This is the second year that it notes two best books written in Ukrainian and published within the current year in Ukraine or abroad. There are two nominations: “Fiction” (a new work of a contemporary author) and “Literary Studies” (a research made by a contemporary author).

The unanimous winner in the “Fiction” nomination (7 votes from 7 jury members), awarded with the cash prize of UAH 5 000 became the novel called “The Squires-Sorcerers” by a famous Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Rutkivsky (A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA Publishers).

The “Ye” Bookstore. The prize is awarded to Volodymyr Rutkivsky by Volodymyr Panchenko — the NaUKMA professor, the editor-in-chief of the “LitAkcent” web portal

“The Squires-Sorcerers” is the second book of the adventure and historical trilogy “THE SQUIRES”. The first novel, “The Squires of Cossack Shvayka” was published in 2007.

For September, 2010, the publication of the finishing novel of the trilogy, “The Squires and the Submarine”, is planned.