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Riga, November 28, LETA. This year's Culture of Excellence Award was awarded to the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMM), director Rolands Kalnins and writer Nora Ikstena, Lita Kokale, head of the department of relations Ministry of Culture (KM), was informed by the LETA agency.
Prizes were awarded to the winners, which included a cash prize of 7,000 euros after tax. The purpose of this award is to express the recognition of the state of Latvia for its outstanding international cultural achievements, which have largely contributed to the promotion of Latvian cultural values, have contributed to the Positive image of Latvia, have increased its prestige and the cultural value of Latvian society.
The LNMA is the largest professional art magazine in the country and plays an important role in the accumulation, preservation and promotion of cultural values in Latvia and abroad. The museum contains more than 52,000 paintings and sculptures of Latvian, Baltic and Russian artists in their collection.
As the winners point out, the LNMM, in collaboration with the Estonian and Lithuanian museums, has realized the exhibition centered on the three Baltic states "Uncontaminated Souls – Symbolism in the Baltic States" at the Museum of Art. Orsay in Paris, which was to be seen from April 10, 2018 until July 15, 2018. The exhibition was inaugurated by French President Emanuelle Macrone, in the presence of all Baltic presidents. His exhibition was designed with the aim of presenting to the French public the art of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian art, which became the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until 1918, the year of the State independence.
During the exhibition, an extensive cultural program was also offered to visitors, which led to an appreciation not only of the visual arts, but also of other manifestations of national identity. Baltic. It has been visited by more than 236,000 visitors from around the world and is considered the most ambitious centennial project of the Baltic States and one of the biggest centennial events of Latvia in a foreign country.
The director Kalnins has been active in the film industry since 1947. He has shot 14 feature films for about 50 years and is the only director representing two films – "Four White Shirts" (1967) and "Ceplis" (1972) in the canon Latvian cultural heritage. Kalniņš became the Order of the Three Stars in 1998, but in 2005 he received the National Film Festival "Big Kristaps" for his lifelong contribution to the cinematographic art.
Ikstena is the most famous writer of contemporary Latvia in the world. The writer has actively trained and directed literary processes; she was one of the founders of the Center for Latvian Literature, the initiator of the idea of the International House of Writers and Translators of Ventspils and, together with the writer Paulu Bankovski and the translator Maimu Grīnbergu, she created the festival literary "Prozas lasījumi".
He has also been President of the National Council of Culture and, as a representative of Latvian literature, has participated in numerous international literary festivals and readings in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan. About the book "Unspecified was" (2006), in collaboration with Imants Ziedonis, Ikstena received the Baltic Assembly Award, the annual prize for literature and the "Day" of the annual prize for culture. In 2008, the author of his social activities received the Order of Three Stars.
This year's novel, Mātes piens (2015), resonated a lot and promoted his appointment as a day writer on the London book market. The novel "Mother Milk", which, in the genre of literary autobiographical prose, declares the fate of women of three generations of a generation under the conditions of the Soviet occupation regime, was reprinted and became the most requested work in libraries and bookstores in the last three years.
Roman translation and publication rights are currently sold to companies in the United Kingdom, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Italy, Macedonia, Syria, Croatia and Hungary. The work has also been published in Russian and discussions have begun on the possible translation of this work into Spain, Germany, Austria and Japan.
As noted, KM has received 24 nominations for visual arts, design, architecture, film, cultural heritage, music, literature and accounting, this year. Nominations were sent by institutions overseen by the KM, sectoral advisory councils, non-governmental organizations, as well as local governments. Nominations submitted have been evaluated by the Latvian National Council of Culture in accordance with the rules of award.
The Culture of Excellence Award was created in 2014 at the invitation of the Minister of Culture Dace Melbourne (VL-TB / LNNK), at the initiative of the Council of Creative Communities of Latvia and with the support of the National Council of Culture. In recent years, Alvis Hermanis, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Janis Nords, Jānis Lipkes Memorial, Signe Baumane, Iveta Apkalna, Andris Freibergs, Turaida Museum Reserve, Rasa and Raitis Šmiti, Andris Nelsons, H2E Design Bureau, Guidon Kremer and Cameron Orchestra Kremerata Baltic have been awarded. "
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