NEWS: Pushkin Prize-giving 2018   24-APR-2018

Pushkin Prize-giving Day - our 30th! - was held in Archers' Hall in Edinburgh, fantastic surroundings for the presentations to all our prize-winners by Founder and Chair, Lady Myra Butter.

prize giving

Congratulations to them all:

Samantha Adams, Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh

Eve Campbell, High School of Dundee

Simon Ezra-Jackson, George Watson’s College

Sophie Gartshore, Glasgow

Milana Gekht, School 157, St Petersburg, Russia

Aaron Hewie, Woodmill High School, Fife

Matthew Mair, Banchory Academy, Aberdeenshire

Aidan McMillan, Penicuik High School, Midlothian

Rakela Oliver, Beeslack Community High School, Midlothian

Daisy Stewart Henderson, Shawlands Academy, Glasgow

Beccie White, Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh

Elizaveta Zamkovaia, School 642, St Petersburg, Russia

We were delighted to welcome Mr Andrey Pritsepov, Consul General of the Russian Federation.

Mr Pritsepov

He was introduced to our two winners from St Petersburg, Milana and Lizzie (Elizaveta).

Milana and Lizzie prize giving

Our judges - Theresa Breslin and Joan Lennon - gave wonderful appraisals of each of the 12 prize-winning folios, followed by readings of extracts from their writing.

judges

And everybody posed for the traditional Pushkin Prize-winners' photos once the formal part of the event was over.

in front of display



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