Russian Award to Mariam Petrosyan

The winners of the fifth Russian Award literary competition have been named in Moscow.

This is the only Russian award for Russia-speaking poets and writers living abroad.

The House where… by Mariam Petrosyan from Armenia was named the best in the "Big Prose" category and The Real Name by the US-based Maria Timatkova came out on top in the "Best Poem."

The Russian Award was established in 2005 with an eye to preserving and promoting the Russian language as a unique cultural phenomenon.