Poet Lev Rubinstein wins literature prize

Writer and poet Lev Rubinstein has been awarded the 2012 Nose Prize for New Literature for his book Attention Marks, a collection of his columns from various print publications. Rubinstein, who is one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism and a key figure in Russian avant-garde literature, is best known for using index cards as a poetic medium while working as a librarian in the 1970s.

The readers’ choice award went to Aleksei Motorov for his autobiography Male Nurse Parovozov’s Young Years.

The Nose Annual Literature Prize was founded by the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation to discover and support new writers in contemporary Russian fiction.