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This year's Award of Culture of Excellence has been awarded to the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMM), director Rolands Kalnins and writer Nora Ikstena, head of the public relations department. of the Ministry of Culture (KM), informed 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.
Exhibition "Uninfected Souls, Symbolism in the Baltic States" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris in 2018.
As the winners point out, on the occasion of the state's 100th anniversary, the NLMM has completed with the Estonian and Lithuanian museums the exhibition of three Baltic states entitled "Non-forced Souls – Symbolism in the Baltic States" at the Museum of Art. 'Orsay in Paris, which was to be screened from April 10 to July 15, 2018. The exhibition was inaugurated by French President Emanuelle Macrone, in the presence of all the Baltic presidents. His exhibition was designed with the aim of presenting to the French public the art of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian artists, which became the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until the acquisition of the artist. State in 1918.
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. It is considered the most ambitious common project of the 100-year-old Baltic States, and one of the biggest events of Latvia's hundredth birthday in a foreign country.
The director Kalnins has been working in the film industry since 1947. He has directed 14 feature films for about 50 years and is the only director representing two films – "Four White Shirts" (1967) and "Ceplis" (1972) in the cultural canon Latvian. Kalniņš became the Order of the Three Stars in 1998, but in 2005 he received the award for the film festival "Great Kristaps" for his lifelong contribution to the cinematographic art.
Director Rolands Kalniņš.
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 Latvian Literature Center, at the origin of the idea of the International House of Writers and Translators of Ventspils and, with the writer Paulu Bankovski and translator Maimu Grinberga, she created the literary festival "Prozas lasījumi".
He was also President of the National Council of Culture and represented Latvian literature. He 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, Iksten received the Baltic Assembly Prize, the annual prize for literature and the annual prize "One day" in the Prize of the culture. In 2008, the author of his public activities received the Order of Three Stars.
This year, the novel of the writer "Mother & # 39; s Milk" (2015) has gained wide resonance and promoted his appointment to the newspaper Day Bookers at 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.
KM has received 24 nominations for visual arts, design, architecture, film, cultural heritage, music, literature and book sales. 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 Office, Kremer Handlebar and Cameror -Baltica "
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