National Literary Award. New Pushkin Prize

Vladimir Makanin became a laureate in the nomination "Modern classic" for the book “Where the Sky and the Hills Converged”, receiving a cash prize of 1,500,000 rubles.

In nomination "XXI Century" For the first time in the history of the award, the jury selected two laureates: Narine Abgaryan for the story “Three apples fell from the sky” and Alexandra Grigorenko for the story “The Blind Dudu Lost.” The laureates shared the cash prize: each received 1,000,000 rubles.

The shortlist prize fund for this nomination, amounting to 1,000,000 rubles, will be evenly distributed among the finalists who did not become laureates in the “XXI Century” nomination:

1. Aflatuni Sukhbat “Adoration of the Magi.” – M.: Ripol Classic, 2015
2. Minaev Boris “Soft fabric”. – M.: Vremya, 2016
3. Eisner Vladimir "Pomegranate Island". – St. Petersburg: “Written with a pen”, 2015
4. Yuzefovich Leonid " Winter road" – M.: Magazine “October”, No. 4, 5, 6, 2015

Marina Nefedova became a laureate in the nomination "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth" for the book “The Forester and His Nymph”, receiving a cash prize of 500,000 rubles.

The finalists of this nomination divided 300,000 rubles among themselves:

1. Moskvina Marina, Govorova Yulia “You, most importantly, write about love.” – M.: Gayatri, 2016.
2. Yakovleva Julia “Children of the Raven.” – M.: Samokat, 2016

Winner of the nomination "Foreign literature" designed to select the most significant foreign book XXI century and note its translation into Russian, became Orhan Pamuk for the book “My Strange Thoughts”, which received a prize of 1,000,000 rubles. Translator of the laureate's book, Apollinaria Avrutina, won a prize of 200,000 rubles.

The long list of the “Foreign Literature” nomination can be considered a guide to world literature

Experts in the “Foreign Literature” nomination – translators, publishers of foreign literature, journalists and literary critics – proposed books for foreign language, which are considered the most important, and the award jury members chose the laureate. The list of books included in the long list of the Foreign Literature nomination was announced in March 2016.

Samsung was also awarded a special “Readers' Choice” prize. The winner of the prize is a trip to South Korea for two - Narine Abgaryan, the author of the story “Three Apples Fell from the Sky”, a work from the short list of the “XXI Century” nomination, which received the largest number of votes according to the results of an open reader Internet vote on the LiveLib.ru service.

“Behind the Literary Prize” Yasnaya Polyana" - fourteen years old. The laureates of previous years are wonderful: not a single one is ashamed of them, but there has never been such a choice as this year in the entire history of the award. All authors deserve to become laureates, and the long list of the “Foreign Literature” nomination can be considered a guide to world literature and taken as a guide,” said Vladimir Tolstoy, chairman of the jury of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on culture.

“What makes the award truly popular is not only the opinion of the highly professional jury. I am very grateful to our partners – Samsung Electronics – for the fact that this is the second year that the special “Readers’ Choice” prize has been awarded. This year, the opinion of the readers coincided with the opinion of the jury. Users of the LiveLib.ru website chose the novel “Three Apples Fell from the Sky” by Narine Abgaryan,” explained Ekaterina Tolstaya, director of the Leo Tolstoy museum-estate “Yasnaya Polyana”.

The prize is awarded to writers whose works carry moral ideals Russian classical literature

“There are such books, when reading which you forget that you are a member of the jury, you don’t remember about short and long lists - you generally forget about everything and just thank the author for leading you to some amazing world“,” noted Alexey Varlamov, a member of the jury of the Yasnaya Polyana literary award, prose writer, researcher of Russian literature of the twentieth century.

“For 14 years now, the Yasnaya Polyana Prize has been recognizing the works of talented promising authors and true classics of our time. We are proud that, by supporting it, year after year we contribute to the development of great literary traditions in the context of today's Russia. In addition, we are pleased to reveal new masterpieces to readers, which, I am sure, will rightfully take their place in the rich cultural heritage our country. I congratulate the winners and prize-winners of 2016 and wish them new creative success“- commented Kim Yi Tak, President of Samsung Electronics headquarters for the CIS countries.

About the award

The Yasnaya Polyana literary prize was established by the Leo Tolstoy Estate Museum and Samsung Electronics in 2003. Every year the prize is awarded to writers whose works convey the humanistic and moral ideals of Russian classical literature. The award jury selects the best works of art of traditional form in the categories “Modern Classics”, “XXI Century” and “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth”, as well as in the “Foreign Literature” and “Readers’ Choice” nominations, introduced with the support of Samsung in 2015. Prize winners in various categories in different time became Anton Utkin, Alexey Ivanov, Zakhar Prilepin, Vasily Golovanov, Mikhail Tarkovsky, Elena Katishonok, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Roman Senchin, Fazil Iskander, Valentin Rasputin, Yuri Bondarev.

Aggregate size bonus fund is 7 million rubles. On this moment this is the largest annual literary prize Russia.

Partners of the Yasnaya Polyana literary prize – central state information Agency Russia TASS, the recommendation service Livelib.ru, on whose platform online voting is carried out, as well as the federal chain of bookstores “Read-Gorod”.

More detailed information available on website awards.

Lenta.ru selected 30 main books of the outgoing year. Among them are books that brought their authors victories in prestigious literary awards. Books that provoked loud public discussions. And books that went almost unnoticed, although worthy of being read by the general public. From these 30 books, everyone can choose to read for the winter holidays.

PRIZE WINNERS

Award " Big Book»

Leonid Yuzefovich “Winter Road” (“Edited by Elena Shubina”)

The first “Big Book” prize, and a few months earlier the “National Bestseller” award went to Leonid Yuzefovich for documentary novel about the Civil War in Russia, the white general Anatoly Pepelyaev and the red commander Ivan Strode.

Evgeniy Vodolazkin “Aviator” (“Edited by Elena Shubina”)

The novel by St. Petersburg medievalist Evgeniy Vodolazkin about what it is like to be frozen for several decades and then wake up in another country, about history and the nature of memory, was awarded the second prize of the Big Book.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya “Jacob’s Ladder” (“Edited by Elena Shubina”)

Lyudmila Ulitskaya again promised not to write novels, and then again (fortunately) she did not keep her promise. This is how a documentary novel about Russian history The twentieth century and centuries from the life of the Ossetsky family (read Ulitsky) - the book is based on true story the family of Lyudmila Evgenievna herself and letters from her family archive.

Russian Booker Award

Pyotr Aleshkovsky “Fortress” (“Edited by Elena Shubina”)

And again historical novel(an unusually large number of them happened in 2016), which takes place in modern Russia and the ancient Golden Horde: an archaeologist dreams of a Mongol warrior. The novel is written in a deliberately excessive “baroque” style, which is difficult to get used to, for which it was much criticized (the choice of the Russian Booker jury has not been so hotly discussed for a long time) and which is suddenly recognized as a virtue when reading the text out loud.

"Enlightener" Award

Alexander Panchin “Summa of Biotechnology” (Corpus publishing house)

In the “Natural and Exact Sciences” category, the winner was a book about GMOs, cloning, genetic diagnostics, gene therapy and other biotechnologies that public opinion traditionally demonizes.

Sergey Kavtaradze “Anatomy of Architecture” ( Publishing House HSE)

In nomination " Humanitarian sciences“The winner was the book that explained the thesis that form is also content, using the example of architecture. Its main value is that for a person who did not distinguish a Doric column from an Ionic one, after reading the book it will become clear why it does not matter which column a particular building has.

RUSSIAN FICTION

Alexey Ivanov “Tobol” (“Edited by Elena Shubina”)

Follow creative quests Alexei Ivanov is extremely interesting: sometimes he is social, sometimes historical and mythological, sometimes he disavows fiction and goes into non-fiction, he pretends that he is not him and writes popular novels under a pseudonym. And here is Ivanov’s new book project: a “peplum novel” about Siberia during the time of Peter I. “Tobol” is its first part.

Sergey Kuznetsov “Kaleidoscope” (“Edited by Elena Shubina”)

The title of the novel is its auto-meta-description. England, France, USA, China, Russia, a hundred heroes - from them, like from puzzle fragments, a picture of the twentieth century is assembled. Some people found the novel too journalistic. To some - very Tolstoyan (this is a compliment). But anyway it's a good choice reading for the winter holidays.

TRANSLATED FICTION

Julian Barnes “The Noise of Time” (translation by E. Petrova, Inostranka Publishing House)

The classic of British literature Julian Barnes, who was in love with Shostakovich’s music from the age of 16 and studied Russian from about the same age, wrote a documentary novel about the composer’s interaction with the Soviet regime, and then came to Russia for the first time since his student days. It all looks and sounds a little incredible, not only for Barnes’ readers, but also for the writer himself.

Hanya Yanagihara “A Little Life” (translation by A. Borisenko, A. Zavozova, V. Sonkin, Corpus Publishing House)

Almost unprecedented case: high literature(and not the conventional “50 Shades of Gray”) blew up the Internet. The last two months of the past year on social networks praised and scolded the novel in every possible way. American writer, arguing about what it is about: either about friendship, or about same-sex love, or about childhood trauma, or about suicide. At a minimum, this means that it is worth forming your own opinion about it.

Jose Saramago “The History of the Siege of Lisbon” (translation by A. Bogdanovsky, Azbuka Publishing House)

The proofreader is preparing for publication a book on the history of the siege of Moorish Lisbon during the reconquista of the 12th century and key episode deliberately inserts an unnecessary negation. And now not only the world, but also personal story the middle-aged proofreader begins to flow in a different direction. A difficult novel to read at first, but a very tender novel Nobel laureate about love and the laws of history, fantastically translated from Portuguese by Alexander Bogdanovsky.

Kazuo Ishiguro “The Buried Giant” (translation by M. Nuyanzina, Eksmo Publishing House)

Ishiguro is a British Dostoevsky. Reading him is physically painful, because he always formulates the question exactly as you were most afraid and did not want. And it doesn’t matter what he asks about: about historical memory, which can lead to genocide, or about historical Alzheimer’s, which turns people into a herd; about what it is real love, whether she tolerates betrayal and what is more important - to know or forget. But the fact that this pain is healing is absolutely certain.

Orhan Pamuk “My strange thoughts”, “Red-haired woman” (translation by Apollinaria Avrutina, Azbuka publishing house)

This year, two novels by Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk were published in Russian. Completely different, but both absolutely beautiful. “My Strange Thoughts” is about Istanbul of the last 50 years, seen through the eyes of a street vendor. “The Red-Haired Woman” is a novel-parable about teenage love and the power of rock.

Alessandro Baricco “Young Bride” (translation by A. Mirolyubova, Azbuka Publishing House)

Short, like most of Baricco’s works, impeccably written, like his “Silk,” a parable novel about life, death and the meaning of existence. There is no point in retelling it - it will become banal. A must read because it is a masterpiece.

Jonathan Franzen “Sinlessness” (translation by L. Motylev and L. Summ, Corpus publishing house)

With his novel Corrections, Franzen seems to have once and for all acquired the status of number one in American literature(in the minds of Russian readers, at least). Since then, he has not released anything as beautiful, but, remembering the “Amendments”, each of his next book is expected in advance by the Russian public as great. Sinless is not a great novel, but it is certainly a well-made great novel about brutal transparency. modern world and the ubiquity of the Internet.

V.G. Sebald “The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage” (translation by E. Vengerova, New Publishing House)

A novel (?), an essay (?), a stream of consciousness (?), the plot of which cannot be recounted in a nutshell (and indeed impossible), but from which it is impossible to tear yourself away. Formally, this is a novel-journey through the county of Surrey, in reality it is a novel-travel through a certain space of world history and the memory of the hero, in which even chance is strictly logical.

Jonathan Coe “Number 11” (translation by E. Poletskaya, Phantom Press publishing house)

The return of Coe the political satirist to literature coincided with Coe's arrival in Russia. The novel “Number 11” is not a continuation, but is genetically related to his own novel “What a scam!” It contains a lot of social unrest, jabs at the British government, bitter ridicule of television and attempts to make privacy public. Finally, one of the heroines is literally a one-legged black lesbian.

Richard Brautigan, Willard and his bowling prizes. Perverted Detective" (translation by A. Guzman, publishing project "Dodo Press", "Phantom Press")

The first book of the publishing project "Hidden Gold of the 20th Century", within which texts by Donald Barthelme, Magnus Mills, Flann O'Brien, Thomas McGuane and Gordon Haughton will be published in 2017. Important names for world literature, not always well known to the Russian-speaking reader.

Anne Tyler “A Spool of Blue Thread” (translation by N. Lebedev, Phantom Press)

The Pulitzer Prize winner's novel is about how life is a tangle in which one thread may be shorter than the other. About the fact that some people never manage to grow up, and what was once taken by their loved ones for spiritual freshness, over time becomes more and more like useless infantilism.

Fredrik Backman “The Second Life of Ove” (translation by R. Kosynkin, Sinbad Publishing House)

A Swedish novel about where “eccentrics and nerds” come from. In fact, people who give unsolicited advice and make annoying remarks on the streets are unclaimed saviors of humanity who have nowhere to apply themselves. A very humanistic novel.

RUSSIAN POPULAR SCIENTIFIC AND BIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE

Mikhail Nikitin “The Origin of Life. From nebula to cell" (publishing house "Alpina Non-Fiction")

In the summer of 2016, Dmitry Zimin’s Book Projects, together with the Evolution Foundation, launched a book series with the cozy name Primus to publish debut popular science books by Russian scientists and science journalists. And the book by biologist Mikhail Nikitin, published in this series, is an example of how one should generally talk to the general public about science. Talking about the origin of life, the author begins with the solar system and the appearance of planets, ends with the hypothetical death of the earth's biosphere, and if you look at the list scientific literature, then it will become clear that the most recent works are from 2015.

"Nanny. Who nursed Russian geniuses" (Nikeya publishing house)

Yakov Polonsky, Konstantin Sluchevsky, Alexey Remizov, Sofya Kovalevskaya and others remember their nannies and wet nurses. The idea for the book came to the mind of the writer and historian Sergei Durylin. He collected other people's memoirs, wrote memoirs about his family, but did not have time to compose a book. His biographer Victoria Toropova completed the work for him.

Andrey Zorin “The Appearance of a Hero. From the history of Russian emotional culture late XVIII - early XIX century" (publishing house "New literary review»)

The famous Russian philologist, professor at Oxford University and the Moscow Higher School of Socio-Economic Sciences tried to explore something that is quite difficult to capture - feelings. The book is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late 18th - early 19th centuries: the time of court competition, Masonic lodges and literature for the monopoly on " symbolic images feelings”, which an educated and Europeanized Russian person had to reproduce in his internal everyday life.

At the end of 2016, the results in the field of modern literature were summed up. The main literary awards of Russia - “Big Book”, “Russian Booker”, “National Bestseller”, announced the names of their winners and the works recognized as the best this season.

On December 6, the jury determined the winners of the National Literary Award "Big Book" for 2016

Leonid Yuzefovich received the first prize for his novel “Winter Road”

Leonid Yuzefovich was born in 1947 in Moscow. The writer spent his childhood and youth in the Urals. After graduating from the Faculty of Philology at Perm University, he served in the army in Transbaikalia, then worked as a history teacher at school for many years.

Yuzefovich L.A. Winter road. General A.N. Pepelyaev and anarchist I.Ya. Strode VYakutia. 1922-1923: documentary novel / L.A. Yuzefovich. - Moscow: AST: Editorial office of Elena Shubina, 2015. - 432 p. — (Historical biographies)

Leonid Yuzefovich's new book tells about a little-known episode Civil War in Russia - the heroic campaign of the Siberian volunteer squad from Vladivostok to Yakutia in 1922-1923. The book is based on archival sources that the author has collected over many years, but is written in the form of a documentary novel. The main characters of this exciting story are two extraordinary historical figures: the white general, truth-seeker and poet Anatoly Pepelyaev and the red commander, anarchist, future writer Ivan Strod. At the center of the book is their tragic confrontation among the Yakut snows, the story of life, love and death.

The second prize was awarded to Evgeny Vodolazkin for the novel “The Aviator”

Evgeniy Germanovich Vodolazkin was born in 1964 in Kyiv. Evgeny Vodolazkin - philologist, specialist in ancient Russian literature, employee of the Pushkin House, student of D. S. Likhachev.

Vodolazkin E.G. The Aviator: a novel / Evgeniy Germanovich Vodolazkin. — Moscow: A ST: Edited by Elena Shubina, 2016. - (New Russian classics).

Waking up one day in a hospital bed, Vodolazkin’s main character in the novel “The Aviator” realizes that he knows absolutely nothing about himself - not his name, not who he is, not where he is. Hoping to restore the history of his life, he begins to write down the memories that visited him. Thus, the reader is simultaneously given the opportunity to learn about the events of the past from the mouth of an eyewitness and hear an assessment of the present from the mouth of an outside observer.

The third prize was awarded to Lyudmila Ulitskaya for her novel “Jacob’s Ladder.”

Lyudmila Ulitskaya was born in 1943 in the city of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria, where her family was evacuated. After the war she returned to Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University with a degree in biologist-genetics.

Ulitskaya L.E. Jacob's Ladder: a novel / L. E. Ulitskaya. — Moscow: AST: Editorial Iya Elena Shubina, 2015. - 731 p. — (New Ulitskaya).

Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s novel “Jacob’s Ladder” is a family chronicle of six generations of the Ossetsky family, born by the writer from her own past, many years of personal correspondence between her grandparents, from the fears of the “silent generation” of her parents and painstaking work.

First place was taken by Lyudmila Ulitskaya with the novel “Jacob’s Ladder”, in second place was Maria Galina (“Autochthons”), in third place was Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel “The Aviator”.
“We always look forward to the results of reader voting with great impatience,” said CEO Georgy Urushadze Prize. - It is known that they help to guess at least one of the “official” laureates.

The winner of the 25th “Russian Booker” was Pyotr Aleshkovsky for his novel “Fortress”

Pyotr Aleshkovsky - prose writer, historian, radio host, TV presenter, zhu r nalist. Graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Department of Archeology). For several years he was involved in the restoration of monuments of the Russian North in Novgorod, Kirillo-Belozersky, Ferapontov and Solovetsky monasteries.

“I worked on the novel for six years. I called my work that because now the most important thing is to maintain inner strength, not to give in to the cheap trends that are befalling us - lack of culture, the desire for profit, reluctance to explore the past, creating myths and maintaining myth-making,” Aleshkovsky said at the festive ceremony.

Aleshkovsky P. Fortress: a novel / Pyotr Aleshkovsky. - Moscow: AST: Editorial office of Elena Shubina, 2015. - 592 p.

Main character“Fortresses” - archaeologist Ivan Sergeevich Maltsov, a fan of his work, honest and principled to the point of recklessness. He is conducting excavations in an ancient Russian town, and at the same time writing a book about the history of the Golden Horde. But in the end he gets involved in the struggle for salvation. ancient fortress, which is in danger of destruction. This is how Medieval legends come to life and receive a new interpretation...

Five more authors competed for victory this year and were included in the “short list” of the literary prize: Sukhbat Aflatuni (“Adoration of the Magi”), Sergei Lebedev (“People of August”), Alexander Melikhov (“And They Have No Reward”), Boris Minaev (“Soft Fabric”) and Leonid Yuzefovich (“Winter Road”).

Assessing the results of the nomination, the chairman of the jury of the Russian Booker Prize 2016, poet and prose writer Olesya Nikolaeva said:

“The novels included in the short list can be classified as high-quality literature. This implies not only aesthetic significance, but also each author’s (own) ideas about literary relevance and the novel tradition. Special role here comes the factor historical memory, Big Time, Chronos. Mastering this space allows the hero to rise above social evil and madness, which substantiates the moral and aesthetic correctness of literature.”

The winner of the Student Booker Prize 2016 was the author of the novel “Kadyn” Irina Bo g a t y r Eva “for overcoming the linearity of time through the harmonious mixing of the languages ​​of mass and elite literature.”

Bogatyreva I. Kadyn / I. Bogatyreva. - Moscow: E, 2015. - 544 p. - (Ethnic fantasy).

The winner of the National Bestseller 2016 award was Leonid Yuzefovich

He was awarded a prestigious literary award for his novel about the Civil War. The Civil War returns to literature 25 years after its death Soviet power. This is not a “red” or emigrant point of view, but an attempt to look at the Civil War as a national tragedy.

Yuzefovich L.A. Winter road. General A.N. Pepelyaev and anarchist I.Ya. Strod in Yakutia. 1922-1923: documentary novel / L.A. Yuzefovich. - Moscow: AST: Editorial office of Elena Shubina, 2015. - 432 p. — (Historical biographies).

No serious literary prize can guess which writer will become a “classic” or distinguish the highest grade from the first, but it can filter out “garbage”. The fact that it brings into the reader’s circle of attention five to seven names of writers who create good-quality literature is already a lot. The main literary awards in Russia are the “Big Book”, “Russian Booker”, “National Bestseller”.

The institution of literary awards in the Russian Federation is quite developed. Prizes for the best literary works were awarded back in Tsarist Russia, in the mid-19th century, but they were common to both writers and scientists. Later, in late XIX centuries, St. Petersburg Academy Sciences established a special literary prize, and already in the USSR before the Great Patriotic War was established Stalin Prize on literature. If you take total number literary awards in Russia, there are several hundred of them. Many not only large, but also small provincial cities have their own literary prizes, which indicates high level their cultures. The purpose of Russian literary awards is to increase the social significance of Russian literature and attract attention to it.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AWARD

Prize for prose work, which has the potential of an “intellectual bestseller”, was established in 2001. “National Bestseller” is one of the three largest Russian literary awards and the only one awarded in St. Petersburg. It was founded literary critic Viktor Toporov (now deceased) and publisher Konstantin Tublin. The competition regularly experiences problems with funding, but in 2016 the Union for Mental Health decided to support “Natsbest”.

In 2016, the monetary part of the award amounted to 750,000 rubles, which were divided in a 9:1 ratio with its nominator. The finalists of the award received 60,000 rubles. This year the long list of awards was somewhat shorter than usual. Usually there are a little more than fifty books, this year there were forty-four.

Short list awards 2016

For the first time, it included not six, but only five books. The short list, according to the jury, was unexpected and discouraging. The only position on the list that no one doubted was Leonid Yuzefovich with the documentary book “Winter Road” (12 points). Her success was quite predictable.

With a triumphant nine points, few entered the Short List famous writer from Kazakhstan Eldar Sattarov, whose novel “Transit Saigon - Almaty” is about the history of Vietnam 1930-1990. caused serious controversy among the members of the Grand Jury. Aglaya Toporova received 8 points with her book “Ukraine of Three Revolutions.” Maria Galina entered the list with seven points with her book “Autochthons”.

Most mysterious writer- Mikhail Odnobibl with the manuscript of the novel “Queue” (5 points), which is a Kafkaesque fantasy based on late Soviet material.

The National Best nominee was born in East German Leipzig in the early 1960s and moved to the USSR at the age of three. He grew up in Naberezhnye Chelny, which he hated for its monotonous architecture. He served in Afghanistan as a driver at a repair base. He graduated from the prose workshop of Alexander Rekemchuk at the Gorky Literary Institute, but did not follow the path of writing. Life brought Odnobibl first to Kozelsk, and then to the Western Caucasus, where he worked at a high-mountain station nature reserve– recorded measurements, monitored equipment. It was the experience of unity with nature, the writer believes, that prompted him to create the novel “Queue,” nominated for National Best. Its main character, a seasonal accounting worker, first moves from the countryside to the city in the 1980s. What follows is an almost Kafkaesque fantasy: most of residents settlement spends his life standing in endless queues.

Now Odnobibl lives in Sochi and, according to him, works as a gardener in a sanatorium.

The winner of the National Bestseller award in 2016 was Leonid Yuzefovich with the book “Winter Road”.

The writer worked on “Winter Road” all this time and even longer. Twenty years ago, a historian by training, he discovered a diary in the archive white general Anatoly Pepelyaev, who rebelled against the Bolshevik government in Yakutsk. Since then, research has been carried out, which included many other papers. But from the documentary texture, for which Yuzefovich is valued, the real thing grew piece of art- with a beautiful conflict, love drama and complex ethical dilemmas of the characters.

RUSSIAN BOOKER AWARD

“Russian Booker” (in 1999-2001 “Booker - Smirnoff”, from 2002 to 2005 “Booker - Open Russia") - literary prize for best novel in Russian, first published last year. Awarded since 1992.

In 2016, 73 works were nominated for participation in the Russian Booker Prize competition, 71 were accepted. 36 publishing houses, 6 magazines, 5 universities and 10 libraries took part in the nomination process. The “long list” of novels accepted for the competition was determined by the jury after reviewing all the works nominated for the award. Since 2008, the “long list” has been limited to no more than 24 novels.

Shortlist for the 2016 Award

• Pyotr Aleshkovsky “Fortress”
• Sukhbat Aflatuni “Adoration of the Magi”
• Sergey Lebedev “People of August”
• Alexander Melikhov “And there is no reward for them”
• Boris Minaev “Soft fabric: Batiste. Cloth"
• Leonid Yuzefovich “Winter Road”
• Pyotr Aleshkovsky “Fortress”

Pyotr Markovich Aleshkovsky- Russian writer, historian, radio host, TV presenter, journalist. He created the novel “Fortress” about an archaeologist Ivan Maltsov, honest and principled to the point of recklessness. He conducts excavations in an ancient Russian town, writes a book about the Golden Horde and himself - like Mongol warrior from his dreams and visions - he rushes to save the ancient Fortress, which is threatened with destruction at the hands of local nouveau riche and capital officials.

Evgeniy Abdullaev(pseudonym - Sukhbat Aflatuni) - poet, prose writer, translator, critic, essayist. Novel "Adoration of the Magi" famous prose writer and the poet Evgeny Viktorovich Abdullaev, writing under the pseudonym Sukhbat Aflatuni, covers a huge period in the history of Russia: from mid-19th century to the present day and tells the story of the Triyarsky family, whose founder - the young architect of progressive views Nikolai - was close to the revolutionary circle of Petrashevsky and secret society"magi", but was persecuted by the ruling emperor.

Sergei Sergeevich Lebedev- Russian prose writer. From the age of fourteen, he worked for eight seasons on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Kazakhstan. Since 2002 - journalist of the newspaper "First of September". The novel “People of August” was published in Germany in the fall of 2015 (Fischer publishing house) and in Russia in 2016 (Alpina Publisher publishing house).

1991 August. These days, an ordinary Soviet teenager receives an unusual gift - a family history secretly written by his grandmother. This story will amaze him twice. The first time is when he realizes how much he didn't know. And the second time - when he understands that not everything has been told, that the memoirs are just a way to hide the absence of one link among many facts: who was his grandfather, his father’s father, a man never mentioned, “crossed out” from the text. Trying to solve this mystery will be destiny.

Alexander Motelevich Melikhov(real name Meilakhs) is a famous Russian writer and publicist. Alexander Melikhov’s trilogy “And They Have No Reward” took a long time to write. Its first part, “Confession of a Jew,” was published in 1994 in the magazine “ New world" The second part was first published only in 2011 in the book “Father’s Shadow”. The author concluded the family saga with the novel “Exile from Memory.”

Boris Dorianovich Minaev- Soviet and Russian journalist, writer. Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Bear". Dilogy. The first book - “Baptiste” - is an image of “soft fabric”, from the fibers of which it is woven and human life, and world history is love, and betrayal, and eternal illusions, and the thirst for life, and the inevitability of death. Heroes of the novel - ordinary people pre-revolutionary, Nikolaev Russia, who fall into the trap of a historical catastrophe, but remain people...

In the second part of the dilogy “Soft Tissue” - Dr. Veslensky, acquaintances from the novel “Baptiste”, the Kanevsky brothers and the Stein sisters, revolutionary soldiers and leaders of peasant armies, NKVD investigators and poets, dentists and army bakers - they all form the “soft tissue” of life, which they are trying to tear apart by war and revolution.

Leonid Yuzefovich– historian, writer. Leonid Yuzefovich’s new book “Winter Road” tells about a little-known episode of the Civil War in Russia - the campaign of the Siberian volunteer squad from Vladivostok to Yakutia in 1922 - 1923.

The winner of the 25th “Russian Booker” was Pyotr Aleshkovsky for his novel “Fortress”

“I worked on the novel for six years. I called my work that because now the most important thing is to maintain inner strength, not to give in to the cheap trends that befall us - lack of culture, the desire for profit, reluctance to explore the past, the creation of myths and the maintenance of myth-making,” - Aleshkovsky said at the ceremony.

BIG BOOK AWARD

Russian National Literary Award Big Book - one of the five most prestigious Russian awards according to literature and the largest in monetary terms. Awarded annually to the author of the best prose work (novel, collection of stories or stories, memoirs or documentaries) that can contribute to artistic culture Russia. There are no restrictions on age, citizenship or place of residence. The monetary content is as follows: 1st prize - 3 million rubles; 2nd prize - 1.5 million rubles; 3rd prize - 1 million rubles.

The authors of 252 books and manuscripts from many regions of Russia, as well as 12 countries of the world, applied for the “Big Book” award in 2016. The long list consisted of 37 authors, and the short list of 11. In addition to famous authors and the works of Pyotr Aleshkovsky “Fortress”, Maria Galina with the novel “Autochthons”, Leonid Yuzefovich “Winter Road” included Evgeny Vodolazkin with the novel “Aviator”. The hero of his novel is a man in a state of amnesia: waking up one day in a hospital bed, he realizes that he knows absolutely nothing about himself - not his name, not who he is, not where he is. Hoping to restore the history of his life, he begins to record the memories that visited him, fragmentary and chaotic. Vladimir Dinets with the book “Songs of Dragons”. This book is a threefold journey. Physical - an extreme voyage to exotic corners of the planet, through the wonders of nature and dangerous twists of fate. Academic - an excursion into the unknown, complex, full of surprises world of crocodiles. Alexey Ivanov with the novel “Bad Weather”. The book takes place in 2008. The plot centers on forty-two-year-old Herman, nicknamed the German, a former veteran of the war in Afghanistan. The main character single-handedly organizes a daring robbery of a special van that transports money from a large shopping center.

Alexander Ilichevsky’s collection “Right to Left” is dedicated to the smells of foreign countries (Armenia and Latin America, Catalonia and the USA, Israel and Germany), the tastes of travel, the auditory perception of literature and music (from Mozart to Rolling Stones), everything he saw that remained forever and was imprinted in the “sixth sense” - memory.

Anna Matveeva’s book “The Enviable Feeling of Vera Stenina” tells the story of female friendship and enmity.

Sergei Soloukh’s novel “Animal Stories” tells the story of the life of a fifty-year-old traveling salesman, and previously a university teacher, candidate of technical sciences Igor with “the most inappropriate surname for Western Siberia” (and this is where the action takes place) - Valenok. The book is based on a combination of two timelines: past and present – ​​Igor’s memories and the situation “here and now”.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya "Jacob's Ladder". This is a family chronicle of six generations of the Ossetsky family, born by the writer from her own past, many years of personal correspondence between her grandparents, from the fears of the “silent generation” of her parents and painstaking work.

Sasha Filipenko. Novel "Bullying". Sasha Filipenko managed to pack a full-length action-packed novel into a small book. The characters in the book are his peers and contemporaries. Musicians, football players, journalists, political strategists... They were unlucky with the era. They are acutely aware of the fleeing youth, which may be why their dialogues are so fragmentary and coded, and their love does not imply continuation.

Leonid Yuzefovich “Winter Road” The novel by Leonid Yuzefovich tells about a little-known episode of the Civil War in Russia - the campaign of the Siberian volunteer squad from Vladivostok to Yakutia in 1922-1923. The book is based on archival sources that the author has collected over many years, but is written in the form of a documentary novel.

The winner of the national literary award "Big Book" was Leonid Yuzefovich
with the novel "Winter Road".

The jury awarded second place to Evgeny Vodolazkin for his novel “The Aviator.”

Third place – Lyudmila Ulitskaya for the novel “Jacob’s Ladder”.

I only talked about three awards, they are talked about more often, and they define new trends in literary process. Read on, my friends. Books define our consciousness.

Kutuzova O.A., head of the sector of the Nikolaev regional library

The GodLiterature.rf portal has prepared a list of current literary awards for 2016

ALL-RUSSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL
(regardless of the place of residence of the authors and the subject of their works)

ANDREY BELY AWARD

The oldest independent literary prize in modern Russia - first awarded in 1978 by the editors of the Leningrad samizdat almanac “The Hours”. Since that time, in accordance with the changing eras, it has gone through several transformations, but has retained unchanged the spirit of nonconformism and focus on the new and unusual. And also the corresponding unique “ prize fund": a bottle of vodka, one apple and one ruble. Despite this, the award enjoys constant respect in the professional community.

Award website:belyprize.ru

BIG BOOK

Award for Best Prose Work large shape, published in the reporting year. The largest literary prize in Russia and the second in the world (after the Nobel Prize). Established in 2005. The total prize fund is 6.1 million rubles (the first prize is 3 million), formed from interest on deposits made by large Russian businessmen and companies that created the “Center for Support of Russian Literature.” The right to nominate published works and manuscripts belongs to publishing houses, members of the Literary Academy (with the prize itself), the media, as well as regional and federal bodies state authorities. Self-nomination is also permitted. Three prizes are awarded annually. The monetary content of the first prize is 3 million rubles, the second prize is one and a half million rubles, the third is a million rubles.

In 2015, the winner of the anniversary season of Russia's largest literary prize, the Big Book, was Guzel Yakhina for her novel Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes.
Second and third places went to the novel “Candle” Valeria Zalotukhi and “The Flood Zone” by Roman Senchin, respectively.

Award website:BigBook.Ru

POET
The prize is awarded to a poet writing in Russian “based on the totality of his merits.” Established in 2005 with financial support from RAO UES of Russia.

The prize is awarded by the board of trustees of the Society for the Encouragement of Russian Poetry. The charter prohibits awarding the prize posthumously, twice, or dividing it among several nominees. The winner of the Poet Prize is awarded a diploma, a badge and a monetary reward in the amount of 1,500,000 rubles.

As a result of heated debate in the literary community, the 2015 laureate was Yuliy Kim.
Award website: Poet-premium.ru

RUSSIAN BOOKER

Prize for the best novel of the year - according to a professional jury consisting of five rotating members under the leadership of a permanent chairman. Established in 1992 “under license” from the English Booker Prize. The monetary portion in the amount of 1.5 million rubles (and 150 thousand rubles for the finalists) has been provided by GLOBEX Bank since 2012. He also issues a grant to transfer one of the award finalists to English language. The Russian Booker currently has no organizational connection to the English prize of the same name.

A Muscovite became the 2015 Russian Booker laureate Alexander Snegirev .

Award website:Russian booker

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Prize for a prose work that, in the jury’s opinion, has under-realized potential as an “intellectual bestseller.” Established in 2001.
Works are nominated by nominators appointed by the organizing committee and are shortlisted based on the voting results of a professional “grand jury”, after which they are transferred to the “small jury”, composed of people who have no professional relationship with literature, chaired by a professional writer. The monetary part of the award is 250,000 rubles, with 10% of it awarded to the nominator.
Since 2014, the general sponsor of the award is the 2x2 TV channel. The final ceremony takes place in St. Petersburg.

NOSE
Established in 2009 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. A special feature of the prize is the public discussion between the “prize jury” and the “prize experts” (both are appointed by the board of trustees headed by I. D. Prokhorova). The name of the award is proposed to be deciphered as “New Sociality” and “New Literature”. The boundaries of this novelty become the subject of two lively discussions - in Krasnoyarsk, during the KRYAKK festival (in this case, a short list is determined), and in Moscow (in this case, the winner is determined). The monetary component of the award is 700,000 rubles.

In 2014, Alexey Tsvetkov became the winner, and online voting brought victory "Telluries" by Sorokin. In 2015, the weighty “The Tale and Life of Danila Terentyevich Zaitsev”, created by Danila Zaitsev, a Russian Old Believer born in China and living in Argentina.

Award website:prokhorovfund.ru

YASNAYA POLYANA

Established in 2003 by the museum-estate of L. N. Tolstoy “Yasnaya Polyana” and the Samsung Electronics company. According to the charter - for the best work of art of traditional form in three categories: “Modern Classics”, “XXI Century”, “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth" (since 2012). The results of the award are determined by a gradually rotating professional jury.

In 2015, the total size of the bonus fund increased significantly and amounted to 7 million rubles. Andrey Bitov, laureate in the “Modern Classics” nomination, received 1.5 million rubles, the winner in the “XXI Century” nomination Guzel Yakhina received 2 million rubles, and the winner in nomination “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth" Valery Bylinsky - 500 thousand rubles.

In 2016, applications for participation are accepted until April 10.

Award website:yppremia.ru

BOOK OF THE YEAR

Established in 1999 by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications. Awarded during the MIBF in nine categories, from “Prose of the Year” to “Electronic Book”. The winners are awarded prizes and diplomas; the monetary content of the prize is not announced.
In 2015, two more nominations were added to the traditional 8 nominations and one Grand Prix: “ Literary context» ( dedicated to the Year literature) and “Victory” (dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War).

Award website:On the page Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN PRIZE

Founded in 1998, that is, during the life of A.I. Solzhenitsyn. It is distinguished by two features: it can be awarded posthumously and can be awarded not only to writers for works of all genres (prose, journalism, poetry, etc.), but, at the discretion of the jury, also to actors, directors, publishers, whose activities, in the opinion of a gradually rotating the jury, “promotes self-knowledge of Russia, makes a significant contribution to the preservation and careful development of the traditions of Russian literature.”
The monetary part of the prize, the equivalent of $25,000, is provided by the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Russian Public Foundation, whose president is N. D. Solzhenitsyna (the writer’s widow).

In 2015, director Sergei Zhenovach became the laureate of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize.
Award website: solzhenitsyn.ru

VOLOSHIN PRIZE

Established in 2008, it is awarded within the framework of the poetry festival of the same name, held in the house-museum of M. A. Voloshin in Koktebel, in the categories “Best poetry book" and "For services to culture." The jury is convened by the festival organizing committee. The monetary content changes every year depending on the capabilities of the attracted patrons. In 2014, the cash portion of the bonuses was the equivalent of $3,000 and $2,000, respectively.

Website of the Voloshin Festival and Prize: voloshin-fest.ru

GRIGORIEVSKAYA PRIZE

Created in 2010 on the initiative of V.L. Toporov to perpetuate the memory of the St. Petersburg poet Gennady Grigoriev “and to encourage strategies and achievements creatively close to him in modern Russian poetry.” Every year the jury sends approximately fifty poets an invitation to participate in the competition, that is, to send their author’s selections. From among those who responded, first a “list of semi-finalists” is formed, and then a “list of finalists” and the winner is determined. The prize for first place is the equivalent of $4,000; another thousand each goes to the finalists and the winner of the “poetry slam,” that is, an express competition of poets-readers that precedes the final ceremony.

See our photo report from the ceremony Grigoriev Prize 2015, as well as the presentation of the prize to Yuri Smirnov.

Award website:genagrigoriev.ru

SPECIALIZED
(establishing a number of restrictions for authors)

DEBUT
An independent literary prize for authors under 35 years of age. Established in 2000 by Andrey Skoch’s Generation Foundation; examines works in almost all literary genres; allows self-nomination (all submitted manuscripts go through a “sieve” of professional readers). The professional jury is gradually rotated; The permanent coordinator of the award is writer Olga Slavnikova. The first prizes in all categories are 1 million rubles. Seminars are held for award finalists, and an international publishing program operates.

The list of 2015 laureates can be found on the award website, and on our website 2014 laureate Arslan Khasavov talks about what doors does it open?"Debut".

Award website:pokolenie-debut.ru

ENLIGHTENER
Popular Science Award. Established in 2010 by D. B. Zimin’s Dynasty Foundation with the aim of distributing popular science literature and encouraging Russian authors to write it. The prize is awarded in two “blocks”: natural sciences and humanities. The organizing committee of the award consists of two people: A. Arkhangelsky and A. Gavrilov. The jury, appointed in 2009 and consisting of 5 people, is annually expanded to include last year's winners. Prize winners receive 720 thousand rubles each, and their books are sent to 125 libraries across the country.

The 2014 winners were Asya Kazantseva and Sergei Yarov, and in 2015 six authors were awarded the prize in the field of popular science literature.

Award website:www.premiaprosvetitel.ru

ARKADY DRAGOMOSHCHENKO AWARD

Prize for poets under 27 years of age. Established in 2014 through the efforts of the St. Petersburg bookstore “Word Order” in memory of the St. Petersburg poet. The right to nominate is vested in the board of nominators formed by the permanent board of trustees. The professional jury is partially replaced every year. The final ceremony includes a public debate. First prize - 70,000 rubles.

The 2015 longlist included 15 nominees, and the award winner was Alexandra Tsibulya .

Award website:atd-premia.org

RUSSIAN PRIZE

The Russian Prize was established in 2005 and is one of the five most prestigious Russian literary awards. Authors who write in Russian and permanently reside outside the Russian Federation can be nominated. The partially rotating jury awards prizes in three categories - “short prose”, “large prose” and “poetry”, as well as a special prize for the preservation of Russian literature abroad. Nomination of manuscripts and autonomy are allowed. The cash content of the first prize in each category is 150,000 rubles. A publishing program is provided, carried out in partnership with capital publishing houses.
Among its laureates are Bakhyt Kenzheev, Boris Khazanov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Anastasia Afanasyeva, Marina Paley, Andrey Ivanov, Margarita Meklina, Vladimir Lorchenkov, Mariam Petrosyan, Marianna Goncharova, Dina Rubina, Andrey Polyakov and others.

The 2015 laureates will be announced in April 2016, but for now only the first results are known.
Award website: russpremia.ru

LITERARY PRIZE NAMED AFTER ALEXANDER PYATIGORSKY

Awarded for the best philosophical essay. Established in 2013 “to support interest in philosophizing outside the professional philosophical community.” A special feature of the award is that both artistic and non-fiction works, as well as those written in Russian and translated (in this latter case, it is divided between the author, if he is alive, and the translator). The right to nominate is given to 49 nominators, whose names are published on the award website. The jury is appointed by the supervisory board. The monetary part of the award is 1 million rubles.

In 2015, in the second season of the award, the prize fund doubled to two million rubles, since in 2014 the award was not awarded to any of the nominees. The short list included five works, and the prize for the best philosophical essay received by translator Elena Dorman .

Award website:piatigorskyprize.ru

ALEXANDER NEVSKY PRIZE

Awarded for historical books. Established by OJSC Talion and the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation for books (in the genre of fiction and non-fiction) “covering the period national history from ancient times up to and including 1991.” Books published since 2000 are eligible for nomination. The short list and the winner are determined by the permanent “Award Commission” co-chaired by the General Director of Talion OJSC Alexander Ebralidze and the Chairman of the Board of the Writers’ Union Valery Ganichev. The cash content of the first, second and third places is 300, 200 and 100 thousand rubles. As part of the award, a competition of museum projects is also held.

In 2015 Special attention when choosing winners The jury focused on projects and works that reflected the 70th anniversary of the Victory, the 1000th anniversary of the repose of St. Prince Vladimir and the Year of Literature in Russia.

Award website:www.alexander-nevsky.ru

PLATO PRIZE

Named in honor of Andrei Platonov (1899–1951). Awarded annually to Russian or foreign literary and artistic figures for significant contributions to the cultural heritage of Russia and Voronezh region, for creating outstanding works in literature, theater, music, fine arts, for the innovative development of humanistic cultural traditions. In 2015, the bonus amounted to 1 million rubles.

The 2015 laureate was the famous writer and critic Andrei Bitov, awarded “for aesthetic fidelity to the lonely voice of man and dedication to the common cause of returning Platonov’s legacy.”

Website of the Platonov Festival and Prize: www.platonovfest.com

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK

Established in 2009 by the children's publishing house Rosmen. First of all, to find new authors. In this regard, it allows and encourages self-nomination. The jury of the award consists mainly of Rosman employees and authors published there. There are three categories - for ages 2–8 years and 10–16 years, as well as "New children's illustration"(for artists). The main prize of the competition is a contract with Rosman to publish the winning book. However, editors sometimes take into work works from the short and long lists.

The results of the 6th season of the competition have been summed up, and applications for participation in the new season are accepted until April 1, 2016.

Award website:newbook-awards.ru

BOOK
All-Russian competition for the best literary work for children and youth, organized by the Center for Support of Russian Literature (which holds the Big Book Award). “Kniguru” is the only competition in the world that accepts both artistic and educational works, and the final decision is made by an open jury consisting of readers aged 10 to 16 years.

The winner receives 500,000 rubles, the second and third place holders receive 300,000 and 200,000 rubles, respectively.

IN long list 2015 Thirty manuscripts were included, 15 works remained on the shortlist, and the winner was Nina Dashevskaya with her work “I’m not a brakeman.”