Winners of “A letter to the Aurora Hero” contest are announced
08-02-2017 14:55:20 | Armenia | Press release
Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and Mediamax have wrapped up the results of the essay contest “A letter to the Aurora Hero”.
The essay by Anna Mehrabyan was selected as a winner of the contest.
The second prize recipient is Anastasia Ageychenko, and the third prize recipient is Julieta Tonakanyan.
In her letter to 2016 Aurora Prize finalist Syeda Ghulam Fatima, Anna Mehrabyan writes: “It is our job to fight in the darkness, so that one day the night may turn to day, and the light may actually bring with it the good – so that one day, our institutions may serve to protect the innocent, instead of the corrupt. You have taught us how a fish may fight the very poisonous water it lives in.”
The winner will be awarded AMD 1 million. Second and third places will receive AMD 500,000 and AMD 300,000 awards respectively
The jury of the contest, chaired by writer Narine Abgaryan, has also decided to grant special awards to Narek Ashikyan, Siranush Grigoryan and Anush Dilanyan. They will have a unique opportunity to attend the 2017 Aurora Prize award ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia on May 28.
In total, 444 essays were submitted from Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Estonia, USA, Nigeria and Switzerland. The contestants wrote their letters to the 2016 Aurora Prize laureate Marguerite Barankitse and finalists Syeda Ghulam Fatima, Dr. Tom Catena and Fr Bernard Kinvi.
The contest was jointly organized by the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and Mediamax news agency. The essays have been received in Armenian, Russian and English available on the website of Mediamax Media Company.