Russian Booker Prize

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The Russian Booker Prize (Template:Langx, Russian Booker) was a Russian literary award modeled after the Booker Prize. It was awarded from 1992 to 2017. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris Caine.[1] It was awarded each year to the best work of fiction, written in the Russian language, as decided by a panel of judges, irrespective of the writer's citizenship. From 2003 to 2011 the chairman of the Russian Booker Prize Committee was British journalist George Walden. In 2012 David Gowan has been appointed to this position.[2]

The prize was the first Russian non-governmental literary award since the country's 1917 Revolution.[3][4]

Each year, a jury choose 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.[4] This was increased to 600,000 rubles in 2011,[5] roughly $20,000 (roughly £13,000), while each of the short listed finalists earned $2,000 (roughly £1,300).[6] The criteria for inclusion included literary effort, representativeness of the contemporary literary genres and the author's reputation as a writer. Length was not a criterion, as books with between 40 and 60 pages had been nominated.[4] 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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9] Since 2011 new sponsor is Russian Telecom Equipment Company (RTEC).[7]

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.[10] 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.[11][12] 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.

On 19 September 2019 Foundation Board and the Аward committee of the Russian Booker Prize officially announced the termination of the award. However, the Russian Booker Fund was not closed, "leaving the opportunity for the renewal of the award".[13]

Winners and nominees

1990s

  *   Winners

Year Author(s) Work Ref.(s)
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Lines of Fate [4][14][15][16]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Place [14][15]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Monogram [14][15]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Manhole [14][15]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Time Night [14][15]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Four Stout Hearts [14][15]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Baize-covered Table with Decanter [17][18]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Cursed and the Slain [17]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Sign of the Beast [17]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Notes of a Lodger [17]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Sonechka [17]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* The Show is Over [19][20]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Skunk: A Life [19][20]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Don Domino [19][20]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Third World [19][20]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Total Indecency [19][20]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The First Second Coming [19][20]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* The General and His Army [21][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname A Barracks Tale [21]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Odyssey [21]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* The Stamp Album [23][24]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Vladimir Chigrintsev [23]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Will to be Alive [23]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Turn in the River [23]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Back to the USSR [23]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname A Novel About Education [23]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Cell [25][26]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Forty Years of Changzhoeh [25]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname I Love [25]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname A Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog [25]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Medea and Her Children [25]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Round Dance [25]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Strange Letters [27][28]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Passing of the Shadow [27]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Bga [27]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Questionnaire [27]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Не много ли для одной (English title unknown) [27]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Freedom [29][30]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Prussian Bride [29]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname My Marusechka [29]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Prizelist [29]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Underground, or a Hero of Our Time [29]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname A Coast [29]

2000s

  *   Winners

Year Author(s) Work Ref.(s)
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* The Conquest of Izmail [31]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Last Communist [31]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Funeral of a Grasshopper [31]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Lunch [31]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Money Day [31]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Roses and Chrysanthemums [31]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* The Kukotsky Case [32][33]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Sir [32]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Lady of History [32]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Slynx [32]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Wreath for the Grave of the Wind [32]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps [32]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Karaganda Ninth-Day Requiem or The Story of the Last Days [34][35]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Fritz Syndrome [34]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname <Illegible> [34]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Love of Kinfolks Laid to Rest [34]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Treatment by Electricity: Novel of 84 Fragments from the East and 74 Fragments from the West [34]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Ice [34]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* White on Black [35][36]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Renaud's Residence [36]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Jupiter [36]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Frau Scar [36]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Laura [36]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Kazaroza [36]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Voltairiens and Voltairiennes [37][38]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Sergeyev and the Town [37]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Sun was Shining [37]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Shilkloper's Horn [37]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Number One or in the Gardens of other Opportunities [37]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Quality of Life [37]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Without Way or Track [39][40]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Little Romance [39]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Canvas [39]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Kablukov [39]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Bonanza [39]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Except for Lavrikov [39]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname A Criminal [39]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* 2017 [41][42]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Sanka [41]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname On the Sunny Side of the Street [41]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Jerusalem [41]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Villa Belle Letra [41]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname A Fish [41]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Matisse [43][44]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Bay of Joy [43]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The End of a Needle [43]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Man Who Knew Everything [43]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname God Does Not Play With Dice [43]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Daniel Stein, Translator [43]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* Librarian [45]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Be as Little Children [45]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Armada [45]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Schukinsk and Other Places [45]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Grafomanka [45]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Crack [45]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* The Time of Women [46][47]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Eltyshevy [46]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Stone Bridge [46]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Yesterday's Eternity [46]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Once Upon a Time an Old Man and Old Woman [46]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Cranes and Dwarfs [46]

2010s

  *   Winners

Year Author(s) Work Ref.(s)
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* The Flower Cross [48][49]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Happiness is Possible [48]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname A Journey of Hanuman on Lolland [48]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The House, In Which... [48]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Shali Raid [48]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Klotsvog [48]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps [12][50][51]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Karaganda Ninth-Day Requiem or The Story of the Last Days [50]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Sanka [50]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Eltyshevy [50]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Daniel Stein, Translator [50]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname* The Peasant and the Teenager [52][53][54][55]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Khadija, Notes of a Death Girl [52]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Arbeit, Or A Wide Canvas [52]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Light Head [52]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Women of Lazarus [52]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Germans [52]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Возвращение в Панджруд ("Return to Panjrud") [56]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Возвращение в Египет ("Return to Egypt") [57]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Vera [58]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Bride and Groom [58]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname The Lullaby [58]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Among People [58]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Flood Zone [58]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes [58]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Крепость ("The Citadel") [59]
Template:Sort Template:Sortname Убить Бобрыкина. История одного убийства ("To Kill Bobrykin. The Story of One Killing") [60]

Criticism

The Russian Booker was famous for unpredictable and paradoxical decisions that did not always attract the approval of Russian literary experts.[61]

A number of writers expressed their fundamental rejection of the "Russian Booker". Already the first decision of the jury, as a result of which the award in 1992 was not received by the generally recognized favorite — the novel "The Time Night" by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, met with almost unanimous disapproval.[62] Vladimir Novikov (ru) in 2000, describing the very first Booker prize winner - the novel "Lines of fate, or the chest of Milashevich" by Mark Kharitonov as boring, stated: "From the very beginning, the Booker plot did not succeed, it was failed to nominate a leader through the award, which modern prose writers would passionately want to catch up and overtake. But it is precisely in this [...] the cultural function, the cultural strategy of any literary prize"[63] Elena Fanaylova noted in 2006: "The Russian Booker does not correspond to its English parent either from a moral or from a meaningful point of view (it can be compared with the translated version of the Booker already available in Russia). The prize focuses on literature that is not interesting either on the domestic or foreign market, or, if it is a convertible author (Ulitskaya, Aksenov), it is awarded not for 'novel of the year', but 'for merits'."[64] Yuri Polyakov in 2008 pointed out that "people receive awards not for the quality of a literary text, not for some artistic discovery, not for the ability to reach the reader, but for loyalty to a certain party, mainly experimental-liberal direction. [...] Almost all the books that were awarded with the prize, [...] did not have any serious reader's fate, [...] [these books] received the award and were immediately completely forgotten."[65] Dmitry Bykov in 2010 noted the Booker jury's "amazing ability to choose the worst or, in any case, the least significant of six novels".[66]

Literary critic Konstantin Trunin, describing the 2018 crisis of the award, noted: "For all the time of its existence, the prize did not justify itself, each year choosing the winner as a writer who created work that is far from understanding by Russian people of the reality surrounding him. There was a direct propaganda of Western values, not Russian ones. Or on the contrary, to the West was shown literature that was not destined to create a close resemblance to the works created in Russia during the 19th century. And it is not surprising that year after year, the Russian Booker lost its authority among the emerging awards. Being handed twenty-six times, he faced the rejection of sponsors, as a result of which it became necessary to reconsider the meaning of existence, having found the transformation required by the reader to a truly Russian humanistic value system».[67][68]

References

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External links

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