Лучшей альпинистской книгой года выбран перевод роман итальянского писателя Паоло Коньетти
Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival или проще киинофестиваль в канадском городке Банффе объявил первого лауреата года. В конкурсе 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Гран При присужден итальянцу Paolo Cognetti за его роман, который в английском переводе называется The Eight Mountains.
Всего на конкурс были представлены 145 книг из 14 стран. 27 попали в финал. Который собственно и рассудило жюри.
Жюри 2018 Book Competition: Ian Welsted (CAN, climber, Piolet d’Or winner, writer), Paula Wright (USA, writer, Associate Editor at Alpinist Magazine, doctoral candidate at University of Oregon), and Larry Stanier (CAN).
Роман Paolo Cognetti рассказывает о многолетней дружбе городского мальчика, папа которого ч детства приучал к хождению в горах, со сверстником, уроженцем горной долины.
Список победителей:
The Phyllis and Don Munday Award - Grand Prize
$4000 – Sponsored by the Alpine Club of Canada
The Eight Mountains
Paolo Cognetti, Penguin Random House – Vintage (UK, 2018)
Category Award Winners
Adventure Travel
$2000 - Sponsored by Fjällräven
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
Kate Harris, Penguin Random House Canada (Canada, 2018)
Mountain Fiction & Poetry
$2000 – Sponsored by Grimms Fine Foods
The Eight Mountains
Paolo Cognetti, Penguin Random House – Vintage (UK, 2018)
Mountain Literature (non-fiction) – The Jon Whyte Award
$2000 - Sponsored by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Tides: a climber’s voyage
Nick Bullock, Vertebrate Publishing (UK, 2018)
Mountain Environment and Natural History
$2000 – Sponsored by Town of Banff
The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee, Penguin Random House Canada (Canada, 2017)
Mountain Image
$2000 – Sponsored by Lake O’Hara Lodge
The Canadian Rockies: Rediscovered
Paul Zizka, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2017)
Guidebooks
$2000 – Sponsored by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides
Squamish Rockclimbs
Kevin McLane and Andrew Boyd, High Col Press (Canada, 2018)
Mountaineering Article
$2000 – Sponsored by the University of Alberta and the Alpine Club of Canada
Contraindications
Alison Criscitiello, Alpinist Magazine (USA, August 2017)
Mountaineering History
$2000 – Sponsored by Rab
Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei
Junko Tabei and Helen Rolfe, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2017)
Special Jury Mentions:
Atlas of a Lost World
Craig Childs, Pantheon Books (USA, 2018)
Bert Riggall’s Greater Waterton: A Conservation Legacy
Beth Russell-Towe, Fifth House Publishers (Canada, 2018)
Больше информации на сайте www.banffmountainfestival.ca.