Russian Booker Prize
Russian Booker Prize | |
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Description | Best Russian-language literary work |
Country | Russia |
Presented by | Russian Telecom Equipment Company (RTEC) |
Currently held by | Andrei Dmitriev's The Peasant and the Teenager |
Website | http://www.russianbooker.org |
The Russian Booker Prize (Russian: Русский Букер, Russian Booker) is a Russian literary award modelled after the Man Booker Prize. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris Caine in 1992.[1] The country's premier literary prize,[2] it is awarded to the best work of fiction written in the Russian language each year as decided by a panel of judges, irrespective of the writer's citizenship. As of 2012[update], the chair of the Russian Booker Prize Committee is British journalist George Walden.[3] The prize is the first Russian non-governmental literary award since the country's 1917 Revolution.[4][5]
Each year, a jury chooses a short list of the six best novels up for nomination from a "long list" of nominees. Initially, the winner received £10,000, roughly 48,000 RUB or $16,000.[5] This has since increased to a sum of 600,000 rubles in 2011,[6] roughly $20,000 (roughly £13,000), while each of the short listed finalists earns $2,000 (roughly £1,300).[7] The criteria for inclusion includes literary effort, representativeness of the contemporary literary genres and the author's reputation as a writer. Length is not a criterion, as books with between 40 and 60 pages have been nominated in the past.[5] From 1997 to 2001, the award was renamed the Smirnoff–Booker Literary Prize, in honour of entrepreneur and Smirnoff founder Pyotr Smirnov. From 2002 to 2005, Open Russia NGO was the general sponsor of the Booker Literary Prize in Russia, leading to its name change to the Booker–Open Russia Literary Prize during that time.[8] Before the announcement of the 2005 winner, the Booker Foundation decided to end its partnership with Open Russia after the foundation's chairman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was sentenced to nine years in prison for tax evasion.[9] In 2005, the committee signed a five-year contract with London-based BP. In 2010, the prize ran into funding problems and preparations for the 2010 prize were suspended because no new sponsor could be found.[2] Since 2011 new sponsor is Russian Telecom Equipment Company (RTEC).[8]
In 2011, a "novel of the decade" was chosen due to lack of sponsorship to hold the customary award. Five finalists were chosen from sixty nominees selected from the prize's past winners and finalists since 2001.[3] Chudakov won posthumously with A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps, which takes place in a fictional town in Kazakhstan and describes life under Stalinist Russia.[10][11] Lyudmila Ulitskaya holds the record for most nominations (five, winning once), followed by Andrei Dmitriev (four, winning once) and Alexey Slapovsky (four, no wins). No person has won the award more than once.
Winners and nominees
1990s
* Winners
Year | Author(s) | Work | Ref.(s) |
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1992 | Mark Kharitonov* | Lines of Fate | [5][12][13][14] |
1992 | Friedrich Gorenstein | Place | [12][13] |
1992 | Aleksandr Ivanchenko | Monogram | [12][13] |
1992 | Vladimir Makanin | Manhole | [12][13] |
1992 | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya | The Time Night | [12][13] |
1992 | Vladimir Sorokin | Four Stout Hearts | [12][13] |
1993 | Vladimir Makanin* | Baize-covered Table with Decanter | [15][16] |
1993 | Viktor Astafyev | The Cursed and the Slain | [15] |
1993 | Oleg Ermakov | Sign of the Beast | [15] |
1993 | Semyon Lipkin | Notes of a Lodger | [15] |
1993 | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | Sonechka | [15] |
1994 | Bulat Okudzhava* | The Show is Over | [17][18] |
1994 | Peter Aleshkovsky | Skunk: A Life | [17][18] |
1994 | Yury Buida | Don Domino | [17][18] |
1994 | Igor Dolinyak | Third World | [17][18] |
1994 | Mikhael Levitin | Total Indecency | [17][18] |
1994 | Alexey Slapovsky | The First Second Coming | [17][18] |
1995 | Georgi Vladimov* | The General and His Army | [19][20] |
1995 | Oleg Pavlov | A Barracks Tale | [19] |
1995 | Evgeny Fyodorov | The Odyssey | [19] |
1996 | Andrey Sergeev* | The Stamp Album | [21][22] |
1996 | Peter Aleshkovsky | Vladimir Chigrintsev | [21] |
1996 | Viktor Astafyev | The Will to be Alive | [21] |
1996 | Andrei Dmitriev | Turn in the River | [21] |
1996 | Dmitrii Dobrodeev | Back to the USSR | [21] |
1996 | Nina Gorlanova, Vyacheslav Bukur | A Novel About Education | [21] |
1997 | Anatoly Azolsky* | Cell | [23][24] |
1997 | Dmitri Lipskerov | The Forty Years of Changzhoeh | [23] |
1997 | Yuri Maletsky | I Love | [23] |
1997 | Olga Slavnikova | A Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog | [23] |
1997 | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | Medea and Her Children | [23] |
1997 | Anton Utkin | Round Dance | [23] |
1998 | Aleksandr Morozov* | Strange Letters | [25][26] |
1998 | Irina Polyanskaya | Passing of the Shadow | [25] |
1998 | Mikhail Prorokov | Bga | [25] |
1998 | Alexey Slapovsky | Questionnaire | [25] |
1998 | Alexandra Chistyakova | Не много ли для одной (English title unknown) | [25] |
1999 | Mikhail Butov* | Freedom | [27][28] |
1999 | Yury Buida | The Prussian Bride | [27] |
1999 | Alexandra Vasilieva | My Marusechka | [27] |
1999 | Leonid Girshovich | The Prizelist | [27] |
1999 | Vladimir Makanin | The Underground, or a Hero of Our Time | [27] |
1999 | Victoria Platova | A Coast | [27] |
2000s
* Winners
Year | Author(s) | Work | Ref.(s) |
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2000 | Mikhail Shishkin* | The Conquest of Izmail | [29] |
2000 | Valery Zalotukha | The Last Communist | [29] |
2000 | Nikolay Kononov | The Funeral of a Grasshopper | [29] |
2000 | Marina Palei | Lunch | [29] |
2000 | Alexey Slapovsky | Money Day | [29] |
2000 | Svetlana Shenbrun | Roses and Chrysanthemums | [29] |
2001 | Lyudmila Ulitskaya* | The Kukotsky Case | [30][31] |
2001 | Anatoly Naiman | Sir | [30] |
2001 | Sergey Nosov | The Lady of History | [30] |
2001 | Tatyana Tolstaya | Slynx | [30] |
2001 | Alan Cherchesov | Wreath for the Grave of the Wind | [30] |
2001 | Alexander Chudakov | A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps | [30] |
2002 | Oleg Pavlov* | Karaganda Ninth-Day Requiem or The Story of the Last Days | [32][33] |
2002 | Dmitry Bortnikov | Fritz Syndrome | [32] |
2002 | Sergei Gandlevsky | <Illegible> | [32] |
2002 | Alexandr Melikhov | The Love of Kinfolks Laid to Rest | [32] |
2002 | Vadim Mesyats | Treatment by Electricity: Novel of 84 Fragments from the East and 74 Fragments from the West | [32] |
2002 | Vladimir Sorokin | Ice | [32] |
2003 | Rubén Gallego* | White on Black | [33][34] |
2003 | Natalia Galkina | Renaud's Residence | [34] |
2003 | Leonid Zorin | Jupiter | [34] |
2003 | Athanasius Mamedov | Frau Scar | [34] |
2003 | Elena Chizhova | Laura | [34] |
2003 | Leonid Yuzefovich | Kazaroza | [34] |
2004 | Vasily Aksyonov* | Voltairiens and Voltairiennes | [35][36] |
2004 | Oleg Zajaczkowski | Sergeyev and the Town | [35] |
2004 | Anatoly Kurchatkin | The Sun was Shining | [35] |
2004 | Marta Petrova | Shilkloper's Horn | [35] |
2004 | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya | Number One or in the Gardens of other Opportunities | [35] |
2004 | Alexey Slapovsky | Quality of Life | [35] |
2005 | Denis Gutsko* | Without Way or Track | [37][38] |
2005 | Boris Evseev | Little Romance | [37] |
2005 | Oleg Yermakov | Canvas | [37] |
2005 | Anatoly Naiman | Kablukov | [37] |
2005 | Roman Solntsev | Bonanza | [37] |
2005 | Roman Solntsev | Except for Lavrikov | [37] |
2005 | Elena Chizhova | A Criminal | [37] |
2006 | Olga Slavnikova* | 2017 | [39][40] |
2006 | Zakhar Prilepin | Sanka | [39] |
2006 | Dina Rubina | On the Sunny Side of the Street | [39] |
2006 | Denis Sobolev | Jerusalem | [39] |
2006 | Alan Cherchesov | Villa Belle Letra | [39] |
2006 | Peter Aleshkovsky | A Fish | [39] |
2007 | Aleksandr Ilichevsky* | Matisse | [41][42] |
2007 | Andrei Dmitriev | Bay of Joy | [41] |
2007 | Yuri Malecki | The End of a Needle | [41] |
2007 | Igor Sakhnovsky | The Man Who Knew Everything | [41] |
2007 | Alex Tarn | God Does Not Play With Dice | [41] |
2007 | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | Daniel Stein, Translator | [41] |
2008 | Mikhail Yelizarov* | Librarian | [43] |
2008 | Vladimir Sharov | Be as Little Children | [43] |
2008 | Ilya Boyashov | Armada | [43] |
2008 | Elena Nekrasova | Schukinsk and Other Places | [43] |
2008 | Galina Shchekina | Grafomanka | [43] |
2008 | German Sadulaev | Crack | [43] |
2009 | Elena Chizhova* | The Time of Women | [44][45] |
2009 | Roman Senchin | Eltyshevy | [44] |
2009 | Alexander Terekhov | Stone Bridge | [44] |
2009 | Boris Khazanov | Yesterday's Eternity | [44] |
2009 | Elena Katishonok | Once Upon a Time an Old Man and Old Woman | [44] |
2009 | Leonid Yuzefovich | Cranes and Dwarfs | [44] |
2010s
* Winners
Year | Author(s) | Work | Ref.(s) |
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2010 | Elena Kolyadina* | The Flower Cross | [46][47] |
2010 | Oleg Zajaczkowski | Happiness is Possible | [46] |
2010 | Andrei Ivanov | A Journey of Hanuman on Lolland | [46] |
2010 | Mariam Petrosyan | The House, In Which... | [46] |
2010 | German Sadulaev | Shali Raid | [46] |
2010 | Margarita Khemlin | Klotsvog | [46] |
2011 | Alexander Chudakov* | A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps | [11][48][49] |
2011 | Oleg Pavlov | Karaganda Ninth-Day Requiem or The Story of the Last Days | [48] |
2011 | Zakhar Prilepin | Sanka | [48] |
2011 | Roman Senchin | Eltyshevy | [48] |
2011 | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | Daniel Stein, Translator | [48] |
2012 | Andrei Dmitriev* | The Peasant and the Teenager | [50][51][52][53] |
2012 | Marina Akhmedova | Khadija, Notes of a Death Girl | [50] |
2012 | Yevgeni Popov | Arbeit, Or A Wide Canvas | [50] |
2012 | Olga Slavnikova | Light Head | [50] |
2012 | Marina Stepanova | The Women of Lazarus | [50] |
2012 | Alexandr Terekhov | The Germans | [50] |
2013 | Andrei Volos | Возвращение в Панджруд ("Return to Panjrud") | [54] |
2014 | Vladimir Sharov | Возвращение в Египет ("Return to Egypt") | [55] |
2015 | Alexander Snegirev | Vera | [56] |
2015 | Alisa Ganieva | Bride and Groom | [56] |
2015 | Vladimir Danikhov | The Lullaby | [56] |
2015 | Yuri Pokrovsky | Among People | [56] |
2015 | Roman Senchin | Flood Zone | [56] |
2015 | Guzel Yakhina | Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes | [56] |
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External links
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