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This year’s PDR, an abbreviation of the festival, took root in that century and was officially used even in its anthem, it was already the 31st and it differed from the previous ones with special attention to epidemiological safety.
The increased spaces between the chairs in the conference rooms of the Dainava Center, where the great readings and award ceremonies were held, the masks on the guests, and sometimes even the faces of the readers, strangely resonated with the free spirit of the latest events as PDR moves to the Širdelė coffee tables. decreases to microscopic values.
Due to the pandemic, foreign poets were unable to come to Druskininkai, and broadcasting their works on screen still did not replace the multilingual bustle that became increasingly diverse every year.
The organizers’ idea of allocating the funds raised in Saturday night’s auction to the Belarusian PEN Center – they will support Belarusian writers affected by the regime – helped not to stagnate in the local context. And the most playful moment of the auction became the offer of the poet, art critic Laima Kreivytė to sell a birch stick called “Nendrės lazda” and immediately buy it for a couple of tens of euros.
The intrigue of who will receive the Jotvingis and Young Jotvingis prize was left behind a week ago when the Ministry of Culture circulated a report with the names of the winners. By decision of the Jotvingiai Prize Committee, the Jotvingiai Prize was awarded to the writer Alvydas Šlepikas for his collection of poems “My father dies”, published by the Lithuanian Writers Union Publishing House in 2019. Young Jotvingian Prize – for writers and translators Ieva Toleikytė for the book of poems “Red Slippery Palace” published this year.
The Jotvingiai Prize was established in 1985 by the poet Sigitas Geda. She was then greeted by the poet Kornelijus Platelis for the poem “The Jotvingiai prayer leaping on the enemy”. In 1990, with the start of the Druskininkai Poetic Autumn, S. Geda agreed to associate his award with the festival. This year the 36th Jotvingian Prize and the 23rd Jotvingian Young Prize were awarded.
No one knew in advance who would receive the winners of the 2020 PDR Young Poets Readings – the Pushkin Prize, later called the Reader’s Prize, and finally the Antanas A. Jonynas Prize. Donatas Petrošius was the first to receive it, and Patricija Gudeikaitė won it this year. In addition, a large number of anonymous poems, humorous and other award-winning cash prizes were distributed, most of which were deposited in the same bar “Corazones” or allowed their participants to perform nobly in the auction.
“I hope no one brings pollution from this year’s festival; this is probably the most important thing.” And of course the PDR happened, “said one of the festival’s pioneers, K. Platelis.
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