The ceremony of presenting the Literary Prizes named after Sazhida Suleymanova was held at the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan.

This time it was organized in Kazan in connection with the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Tatarstan’s oil.

The prize for this year’s laureates is 150 thousand rubles each.

The 2023 laureates are:

KARIMOVA Aliya Kayumovna (Alena Karimova), Moscow – for translations of poems from the Tatar language in the collection “Bird of the Heart” – publishing house “Yaz”, 2022;

SHARAPOVA Yoldyz Adipovna, (Kazan) for the collection of poems for children “Kitaply Kich” (“Evening with a book”), – Tatknigoizdat, 2018;

AKHMETSHINA Minzifa Khairutdinovna (Almetyevsk) for the collection of poems “Innaryemdә ak dzhilkan” (“White sails on my shoulders”) – “Rukhiyat”, 2019.