#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The book by Norilsk author Olga Shadrina How Seals got into Baikal from the Tales-Hypotheses series was given a high award – the Best Book of the Year-2022.
530 books were nominated for the contest in nine categories, so this victory for Olga Shadrina, according to her, is a high degree of creative work recognition.
In Norilsk, she will present her book on April 8. The meeting will be held at the city’s public library.
“The Norilsk people will also get acquainted with my literary adaptation of Dolgan fairy tales. The publication Under the Great Bear Constellation from the Polar Nomads Heritage series was talentedly illustrated by the artists Yulia and Evgeny Porotovs, last year it received a diploma of the Krasnoyarsk region’s Year Book-2021 contest in the Best Art Book category”, Olga told This Is Taimyr.
Children’s writer, member of the Russia Children and Youth Writers’ Union Olga Shadrina is known in the northern city for environmental and educational projects of the Arctic Development Project Office, as well as for a series of books about Far North animals. This is her favorite topic where she is an author and a researcher, an archivist, a realist, and a science fiction writer.
In the indefatigable author’s arsenal, there is the book about the musk ox Grishka – a real story about how the reserve director Vladimir Larin adopted a foundling, a popular publication about the traveler and cameraman Yury Ledin, and the polar bear Aika, who lived in his Norilsk apartment, and other collections.
“My book and I were very lucky to meet such a highly professional, sensitive, talented artist with a unique author’s style. Fabulous images of the great Siberian rivers, cute, touching, very emotional seals, an abundance of ornaments, patterns and symbols in accordance with the culture of the Far North and Baikal. Magic is in every illustration of the book”, the writer said on her page in social networks.
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Text: Marina Horoshevskaya, Photo: personal archive of Olga Shadrina
