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 Today the second stage of the Orange Book Prize 2011 – the public voting – was launched. Total of 130 works were received by Orange during the first stage. As results of the first stage, during which the Jury had to choose maximum four works in each category, the following works have been selected.

Novel. «Change of feather» (Hrach Beglaryan) և «Dog constellation» (Narine Kroyan)
Fairy tale. «Inhabitants of Ankimur» (Armine Abrahamyan)
Essay. «The city » (Vardan Fereshetyan), «Bridge to Tanya: the extraordinary poet and the woman», (Violet Grigoryan), «Insomnia in Paris» (Vahram Martirosyan) and «The time to jump out of the waggon» (Armen Shekoyan)
Short story. «Few hours before death penalty» (Paruyr Santrosyan), «Dream of the football ball» (Tatev Derzyan), «Matryoshka» (Armen Ohanyan), «96» (Marine Kocharyan)
Screenplay. « Charents» (Vahram Martirosyan)

On the proposal of the Jury essays and short stories have been devided into two categories. On the opposite, per each category - fairy tale and screenplay/play only one creative work has been chosen, which in its turn is considered to be the winner and will be published. Visitors can find extracts of these works on Orange website.

Winners in novel, essay and short story nominations will be selected through online public voting.
Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO, said: «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».
Starting from today and 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.

As a reminder, 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. Orange Book Prize will be organized and implemented in cooperation with Armenian Book Center NGO.