Russian Booker Prize

Russian Booker Prize
Awarded for 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
Official website 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, 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)
1992 Kharitonov, MarkMark Kharitonov* Lines of Fate [5][12][13][14]
1992 Gorenstein, FriedrichFriedrich Gorenstein Place [12][13]
1992 Ivanchenko, AleksandrAleksandr Ivanchenko Monogram [12][13]
1992 Makanin, VladimirVladimir Makanin Manhole [12][13]
1992 Petrushevskaya, LyudmilaLyudmila Petrushevskaya The Time Night [12][13]
1992 Sorokin, VladimirVladimir Sorokin Four Stout Hearts [12][13]
1993 Makanin, VladimirVladimir Makanin* Baize-covered Table with Decanter [15][16]
1993 Astafyev, ViktorViktor Astafyev The Cursed and the Slain [15]
1993 Ermakov, OlegOleg Ermakov Sign of the Beast [15]
1993 Lipkin, SemyonSemyon Lipkin Notes of a Lodger [15]
1993 Ulitskaya, LyudmilaLyudmila Ulitskaya Sonechka [15]
1994 Okudzhava, BulatBulat Okudzhava* The Show is Over [17][18]
1994 Aleshkovsky, PeterPeter Aleshkovsky Skunk: A Life [17][18]
1994 Buida, YuryYury Buida Don Domino [17][18]
1994 Dolinyak, IgorIgor Dolinyak Third World [17][18]
1994 Levitin, MikhaelMikhael Levitin Total Indecency [17][18]
1994 Slapovsky, AlexeyAlexey Slapovsky The First Second Coming [17][18]
1995 Vladimov, GeorgiGeorgi Vladimov* The General and His Army [19][20]
1995 Pavlov, OlegOleg Pavlov A Barracks Tale [19]
1995 Fyodorov, EvgenyEvgeny Fyodorov The Odyssey [19]
1996 Sergeev, AndreyAndrey Sergeev* The Stamp Album [21][22]
1996 Aleshkovsky, PeterPeter Aleshkovsky Vladimir Chigrintsev [21]
1996 Astafyev, ViktorViktor Astafyev The Will to be Alive [21]
1996 Dmitriev, AndreiAndrei Dmitriev Turn in the River [21]
1996 Dobrodeev, DmitriiDmitrii Dobrodeev Back to the USSR [21]
1996 Gorlanova, NinaNina Gorlanova, Bukur, VyacheslavVyacheslav Bukur A Novel About Education [21]
1997 Azolsky, AnatolyAnatoly Azolsky* Cell [23][24]
1997 Lipskerov, DmitriDmitri Lipskerov The Forty Years of Changzhoeh [23]
1997 Maletsky, YuriYuri Maletsky I Love [23]
1997 Slavnikova, OlgaOlga Slavnikova A Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog [23]
1997 Ulitskaya, LyudmilaLyudmila Ulitskaya Medea and Her Children [23]
1997 Utkin, AntonAnton Utkin Round Dance [23]
1998 Morozov, AleksandrAleksandr Morozov* Strange Letters [25][26]
1998 Polyanskaya, IrinaIrina Polyanskaya Passing of the Shadow [25]
1998 Prorokov, MikhailMikhail Prorokov Bga [25]
1998 Slapovsky, AlexeyAlexey Slapovsky Questionnaire [25]
1998 Chistyakova, AlexandraAlexandra Chistyakova Не много ли для одной (English title unknown) [25]
1999 Butov, MikhailMikhail Butov* Freedom [27][28]
1999 Buida, YuryYury Buida The Prussian Bride [27]
1999 Vasilieva, AlexandraAlexandra Vasilieva My Marusechka [27]
1999 Girshovich, LeonidLeonid Girshovich The Prizelist [27]
1999 Makanin, VladimirVladimir Makanin The Underground, or a Hero of Our Time [27]
1999 Platova, VictoriaVictoria Platova A Coast [27]

2000s

  *   Winners

Year Author(s) Work Ref.(s)
2000 Shishkin, MikhailMikhail Shishkin* The Conquest of Izmail [29]
2000 Zalotukha, ValeryValery Zalotukha The Last Communist [29]
2000 Kononov, NikolayNikolay Kononov The Funeral of a Grasshopper [29]
2000 Palei, MarinaMarina Palei Lunch [29]
2000 Slapovsky, AlexeyAlexey Slapovsky Money Day [29]
2000 Shenbrun, SvetlanaSvetlana Shenbrun Roses and Chrysanthemums [29]
2001 Ulitskaya, LyudmilaLyudmila Ulitskaya* The Kukotsky Case [30][31]
2001 Naiman, AnatolyAnatoly Naiman Sir [30]
2001 Nosov, SergeySergey Nosov The Lady of History [30]
2001 Tolstaya, TatyanaTatyana Tolstaya Slynx [30]
2001 Cherchesov, AlanAlan Cherchesov Wreath for the Grave of the Wind [30]
2001 Chudakov, AlexanderAlexander Chudakov A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps [30]
2002 Pavlov, OlegOleg Pavlov* Karaganda Ninth-Day Requiem or The Story of the Last Days [32][33]
2002 Bortnikov, DmitryDmitry Bortnikov Fritz Syndrome [32]
2002 Gandlevsky, SergeiSergei Gandlevsky <Illegible> [32]
2002 Melikhov, AlexandrAlexandr Melikhov The Love of Kinfolks Laid to Rest [32]
2002 Mesyats, VadimVadim Mesyats Treatment by Electricity: Novel of 84 Fragments from the East and 74 Fragments from the West [32]
2002 Sorokin, VladimirVladimir Sorokin Ice [32]
2003 Gallego, RubenRubén Gallego* White on Black [33][34]
2003 Galkina, NataliaNatalia Galkina Renaud's Residence [34]
2003 Zorin, LeonidLeonid Zorin Jupiter [34]
2003 Mamedov, AthanasiusAthanasius Mamedov Frau Scar [34]
2003 Chizhova, ElenaElena Chizhova Laura [34]
2003 Yuzefovich, LeonidLeonid Yuzefovich Kazaroza [34]
2004 Aksyonov, VasilyVasily Aksyonov* Voltairiens and Voltairiennes [35][36]
2004 Zajaczkowski, OlegOleg Zajaczkowski Sergeyev and the Town [35]
2004 Kurchatkin, AnatolyAnatoly Kurchatkin The Sun was Shining [35]
2004 Petrova, MartaMarta Petrova Shilkloper's Horn [35]
2004 Petrushevskaya, LyudmilaLyudmila Petrushevskaya Number One or in the Gardens of other Opportunities [35]
2004 Slapovsky, AlexeyAlexey Slapovsky Quality of Life [35]
2005 Gutsko, DenisDenis Gutsko* Without Way or Track [37][38]
2005 Evseev, BorisBoris Evseev Little Romance [37]
2005 Yermakov, OlegOleg Yermakov Canvas [37]
2005 Naiman, AnatolyAnatoly Naiman Kablukov [37]
2005 Solntsev, RomanRoman Solntsev Bonanza [37]
2005 Solntsev, RomanRoman Solntsev Except for Lavrikov [37]
2005 Chizhova, ElenaElena Chizhova A Criminal [37]
2006 Slavnikova, OlgaOlga Slavnikova* 2017 [39][40]
2006 Prilepin, ZakharZakhar Prilepin Sanka [39]
2006 Rubina, DinaDina Rubina On the Sunny Side of the Street [39]
2006 Sobolev, DenisDenis Sobolev Jerusalem [39]
2006 Cherchesov, AlanAlan Cherchesov Villa Belle Letra [39]
2006 Aleshkovsky, PeterPeter Aleshkovsky A Fish [39]
2007 Ilichevsky, AleksandrAleksandr Ilichevsky* Matisse [41][42]
2007 Dmitriev, AndreiAndrei Dmitriev Bay of Joy [41]
2007 Malecki, YuriYuri Malecki The End of a Needle [41]
2007 Sakhnovsky, IgorIgor Sakhnovsky The Man Who Knew Everything [41]
2007 Tarn, AlexAlex Tarn God Does Not Play With Dice [41]
2007 Ulitskaya, LyudmilaLyudmila Ulitskaya Daniel Stein, Translator [41]
2008 Yelizarov, MikhailMikhail Yelizarov* Librarian [43]
2008 Sharov, VladimirVladimir Sharov Be as Little Children [43]
2008 Boyashov, IlyaIlya Boyashov Armada [43]
2008 Nekrasova, ElenaElena Nekrasova Schukinsk and Other Places [43]
2008 Shchekina, GalinaGalina Shchekina Grafomanka [43]
2008 Sadulaev, GermanGerman Sadulaev Crack [43]
2009 Chizhova, ElenaElena Chizhova* The Time of Women [44][45]
2009 Senchin, RomanRoman Senchin Eltyshevy [44]
2009 Terekhov, AlexanderAlexander Terekhov Stone Bridge [44]
2009 Khazanov, BorisBoris Khazanov Yesterday's Eternity [44]
2009 Katishonok, ElenaElena Katishonok Once Upon a Time an Old Man and Old Woman [44]
2009 Yuzefovich, LeonidLeonid Yuzefovich Cranes and Dwarfs [44]

2010s

  *   Winners

Year Author(s) Work Ref.(s)
2010 Kolyadina, ElenaElena Kolyadina* The Flower Cross [46][47]
2010 Zajaczkowski, OlegOleg Zajaczkowski Happiness is Possible [46]
2010 Ivanov, AndreiAndrei Ivanov A Journey of Hanuman on Lolland [46]
2010 Petrosyan, MariamMariam Petrosyan The House, In Which... [46]
2010 Sadulaev, GermanGerman Sadulaev Shali Raid [46]
2010 Khemlin, MargaritaMargarita Khemlin Klotsvog [46]
2011 Chudakov, AlexanderAlexander Chudakov* A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps [11][48][49]
2011 Pavlov, OlegOleg Pavlov Karaganda Ninth-Day Requiem or The Story of the Last Days [48]
2011 Prilepin, ZakharZakhar Prilepin Sanka [48]
2011 Senchin, RomanRoman Senchin Eltyshevy [48]
2011 Ulitskaya, LyudmilaLyudmila Ulitskaya Daniel Stein, Translator [48]
2012 Dmitriev, AndreiAndrei Dmitriev* The Peasant and the Teenager [50][51][52][53]
2012 Akhmedova, MarinaMarina Akhmedova Khadija, Notes of a Death Girl [50]
2012 Popov, YevgeniYevgeni Popov Arbeit, Or A Wide Canvas [50]
2012 Slavnikova, OlgaOlga Slavnikova Light Head [50]
2012 Stepanova, MarinaMarina Stepanova The Women of Lazarus [50]
2012 Terekhov, AlexandrAlexandr Terekhov The Germans [50]
2013 Volos, AndreiAndrei Volos Возвращение в Панджруд ("Return to Panjrud") [54]
2014 Sharov, VladimirVladimir Sharov Возвращение в Египет ("Return to Egypt") [55]
2015 Snegirev, AlexanderAlexander Snegirev Vera [56]
2015 Ganieva, AlisaAlisa Ganieva Bride and Groom [56]
2015 Danikhov, VladimirVladimir Danikhov The Lullaby [56]
2015 Pokrovsky, YuriYuri Pokrovsky Among People [56]
2015 Senchin, RomanRoman Senchin Flood Zone [56]
2015 Yakhina, GuzelGuzel Yakhina Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes [56]

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