Russian Booker Prize
{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox award
| image = Russian Booker Prize.jpg
| name = Russian Booker Prize
| awarded_for = Best Russian-language literary work
| presenter = Russian Telecom Equipment Company (RTEC)
| country = Russia
| year = 1992
| year2 = 2017
}}
The Russian Booker Prize ({{langx|ru|Русский Букер}}, 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sir-michael-caine-1082622.html|title=Obituary: Sir Michael Caine|work=The Independent|publisher=Independent Print Limited|author=Ion Trewin|date=24 March 1999|access-date=4 February 2013}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Новости |first=Р. И. А. |date= 15 March 2012|title=Победитель "Русского Букера" в этом году получит 1,5 млн рублей |url=https://ria.ru/20120315/596012478.html |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=РИА Новости |language=ru}}
The prize was the first Russian non-governmental literary award since the country's 1917 Revolution.{{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/about/2/|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|script-title=ru:Создание и создатели|trans-title=Establishment and founders|access-date=2 November 2011|language=ru}}David Braund: [https://books.google.com/books?id=fKTbxKxb0zUC The New Russia], "Lucrative literature: the Booker Prize in Russia", Sally Dalton-Brown, D. M. Pursglove, Intellect Books, 1995, {{ISBN|9781871516876}}, pp.23–33
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. This was increased to 600,000 rubles in 2011,{{Cite web |last=Новости |first=Р. И. А. |date= December 2011|title=Александр Чудаков стал лауреатом премии "Русский Букер десятилетия" |url=https://ria.ru/20111201/503751072.html |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=РИА Новости |language=ru}} roughly $20,000 (roughly £13,000), while each of the short listed finalists earned $2,000 (roughly £1,300).{{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/about/4/|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|access-date=2 November 2011|script-title=ru:Процедура премии|trans-title=Awarding procedure|language=ru}} 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. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/about/3/|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|access-date=2 November 2011|script-title=ru:Попечители|trans-title=Trustee|language=ru}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=633069|title=Booker Prize Dumps Khodorkovsky|access-date=2 November 2011|date=7 December 2005|work=Kommersant|publisher=ZAO "Kommersant. Publishing House"}} 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.{{cite news|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/no-money-for-russian-booker-prize/432802.html|title=No Money for Russian Booker Prize|work=The Moscow Times|publisher=Sanoma|date=18 March 2011 |first=Nikolaus |last=von Twickel|access-date=11 August 2012}} Since 2011 new sponsor is Russian Telecom Equipment Company (RTEC).
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.{{Cite web |last=Новости |first=Р. И. А. |date= November 2011|title=Премия "Русский Букер десятилетия" выбрала пять финалистов |url=https://ria.ru/20111101/477347105.html |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=РИА Новости |language=ru}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/awards-and-prizes/article/49717-russian-booker-of-the-decade-goes-to-chudakov.html |title=Russian Booker of the Decade Goes to Chudakov |author=Teri Tan |work=Publishers Weekly |date=2 December 2011 |access-date=12 August 2012}} 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".{{cite web|title=О ПРЕКРАЩЕНИИ ПРЕМИИ «РУССКИЙ БУКЕР»|url=http://russianbooker.org/news/90/|website=russianbooker.org|date=2019-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023193921/http://russianbooker.org/news/90/ |archive-date=23 October 2019 |language=ru}}
Winners and nominees
=1990s=
* Winners
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|1992|1992}} |{{sortname|Mark|Kharitonov}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1992/|title=Archive – 1992|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=22 January 2013}}{{cite journal|script-journal=ru:Литературное обозрение|journal=Pravda|year=1993|page=14|script-title=ru:В пустом саду|trans-title=In the Empty Garden|author=Pavel Vasysky|language=ru}}{{Cite web | url = https://apnews.com/dd84c5f36a1f761475ec4714ad9d5b66 | work = Associated Press News | access-date = 5 June 2013 | date = 8 December 1992 | title = Kharitonov awarded first Russian Booker Prize| first = Deborah | last = Seward}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19921|1992}} |{{sortname|Friedrich|Gorenstein}} |Place |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19922|1992}} |{{sortname|Aleksandr|Ivanchenko}} |Monogram |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19923|1992}} |{{sortname|Vladimir|Makanin}} |Manhole |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19924|1992}} |{{sortname|Lyudmila|Petrushevskaya}} |The Time Night |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19925|1992}} |{{sortname|Vladimir|Sorokin}} |Four Stout Hearts |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|1993|1993}} | {{sortname|Vladimir|Makanin}}* | Baize-covered Table with Decanter | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1993/|title=Archive – 1993|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=22 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/vladimir-makanin | publisher = Words Without Borders | title = Vladimir Makanin | access-date = 5 June 2013}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19931|1993}} |{{sortname|Viktor|Astafyev}} |The Cursed and the Slain |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19932|1993}} |{{sortname|Oleg|Ermakov}} |Sign of the Beast |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19933|1993}} |{{sortname|Semyon|Lipkin}} |Notes of a Lodger |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19933|1993}} |{{sortname|Lyudmila|Ulitskaya}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|1994|1994}} | {{sortname|Bulat|Okudzhava}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1994/|title=Archive – 1994|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=22 January 2013}}{{cite journal|journal=Читающая Россия|title=Читающая Россия|year=1994|page=1|language=ru}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19941|1994}} |{{sortname|Peter|Aleshkovsky}} |Skunk: A Life |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19942|1994}} |{{sortname|Yury|Buida}} |Don Domino |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19943|1994}} |{{sortname|Igor|Dolinyak}} |Third World |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19944|1994}} |{{sortname|Mikhail|Levitin}} |Total Indecency |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19945|1994}} |{{sortname|Alexey|Slapovsky}} |The First Second Coming |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|1995|1995}} | {{sortname|Georgi|Vladimov}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1995/|title=Archive – 1995|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=22 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries | work = The Guardian | date = 11 November 2003 | access-date = 5 June 2013 | title = Georgi Vladimov | first = Arnold | last = McMillin}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19951|1995}} |{{sortname|Oleg|Pavlov}} |A Barracks Tale |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19952|1995}} |{{sortname|Evgeny|Fyodorov|Evgeny Borisovich Fyodorov}} |The Odyssey |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|1996|1996}} | {{sortname|Andrey|Sergeev}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1996/|title=Archive – 1996|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3ia_KMG6Ks8C&q=%22Sergeev%22+%22russian+booker%22&pg=PA226 | title = Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art: No. 1 | page =226| publisher = Forfattares Bokmaskin | date = 7 December 2003 | isbn=978-9179105495 | editor = Alexander Deriev}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19961|1996}} |{{sortname|Peter|Aleshkovsky}} |Vladimir Chigrintsev |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19962|1996}} |{{sortname|Viktor|Astafyev}} |The Will to be Alive |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19963|1996}} |{{sortname|Andrei|Dmitriev|Andrei Dmitriev (writer)}} |Turn in the River |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19963|1996}} |{{sortname|Dmitrii|Dobrodeev}} |Back to the USSR |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19964|1996}} |{{sortname|Nina|Gorlanova}}, {{sortname|Vyacheslav|Bukur}} |A Novel About Education |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|1997|1997}} | {{sortname|Anatoly|Azolsky}}* | Cell | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1997/|title=Archive – 1997|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YDBuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Azolsky%22+%22russian+booker%22 | title = Indian Review of Books, Volume 7 | publisher = Acme Books Pvt. Limited | date = 1997 | page=48}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19971|1997}} |{{sortname|Dmitri|Lipskerov}} |The Forty Years of Changzhoeh |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19972|1997}} |{{sortname|Yuri|Maletsky}} |I Love |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19973|1997}} |{{sortname|Olga|Slavnikova}} |A Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19974|1997}} |{{sortname|Lyudmila|Ulitskaya}} |Medea and Her Children |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19975|1997}} |{{sortname|Anton|Utkin|Anton Aleksandrovich Utkin}} |Round Dance |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|1998|1998}} | {{sortname|Aleksandr|Morozov|Aleksander Morozov (writer)}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1998/|title=Archive – 1998|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=n6saAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Morozov%22+%22russian+booker%22 | title = Transition, Volume 6, Issues 1–3 | date = 1999 | publisher = Open Media Research Institute}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19981|1998}} |{{sortname|Irina|Polyanskaya}} |Passing of the Shadow |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19982|1998}} |{{sortname|Mikhail|Prorokov}} |Bga |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19983|1998}} |{{sortname|Alexey|Slapovsky}} |Questionnaire |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19984|1998}} |{{sortname|Alexandra|Chistyakova}} | Не много ли для одной (English title unknown) |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|1999|1999}} | {{sortname|Mikhail|Butov}}* | Freedom | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1999/|title=Archive – 1999|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/mikhail-butov | publisher = University of Iowa | access-date = 5 June 2013| title = Mikhail Butov}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19991|1999}} |{{sortname|Yury|Buida}} |The Prussian Bride |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19992|1999}} |{{sortname|Alexandra|Vasilieva}} |My Marusechka |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19993|1999}} |{{sortname|Leonid|Girshovich}} |The Prizelist |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19994|1999}} |{{sortname|Vladimir|Makanin}} |The Underground, or a Hero of Our Time |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|19994|1999}} |{{sortname|Victoria|Platova}} |A Coast |
=2000s=
* Winners
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2000|2000}} | {{sortname|Mikhail|Shishkin|Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin|Shishkin, Mikhail}}* | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20001|2000}} |{{sortname|Valery|Zalotukha}} |The Last Communist | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20002|2000}} |{{sortname|Nikolay|Kononov}} |The Funeral of a Grasshopper | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20003|2000}} |{{sortname|Marina|Palei}} |Lunch | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20004|2000}} |{{sortname|Alexey|Slapovsky}} |Money Day | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20005|2000}} |{{sortname|Svetlana|Shenbrun}} |Roses and Chrysanthemums | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2001|2001}} | {{sortname|Lyudmila|Ulitskaya}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2001/|title=Archive – 2001|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/doctors-plot/358178.html | work = The Moscow Times| access-date = 5 June 2013 | title = Doctor's Plot | date = 6 August 2004 | first = Victor | last = Sonkin}} | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20011|2001}} |{{sortname|Anatoly|Naiman}} |Sir | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20011|2001}} |{{sortname|Sergey|Nosov}} |The Lady of History | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20012|2001}} |{{sortname|Tatyana|Tolstaya}} |Slynx | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20013|2001}} |{{sortname|Alan|Cherchesov}} |Wreath for the Grave of the Wind | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20014|2001}} |{{sortname|Alexander|Chudakov}} |A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2002|2002}} | {{sortname|Oleg|Pavlov}}* | Karaganda Ninth-Day Requiem or The Story of the Last Days | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2002/|title=Archive – 2002|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=11774 | work = The St. Petersburg Times | title = booker winner beats the odds | access-date = 5 June 2013| first = Galina |last = Stolyarova}} | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20021|2002}} |{{sortname|Dmitry|Bortnikov}} |Fritz Syndrome | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20022|2002}} |{{sortname|Sergei|Gandlevsky}} | | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20023|2002}} |{{sortname|Alexandr|Melikhov}} |The Love of Kinfolks Laid to Rest | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20024|2002}} |{{sortname|Vadim|Mesyats}} |Treatment by Electricity: Novel of 84 Fragments from the East and 74 Fragments from the West | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20025|2002}} |{{sortname|Vladimir|Sorokin}} |Ice | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2003|2003}} | {{sortname|Rubén|Gallego | Gallego, Ruben}}*
| {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2003/|title=Archive – 2003|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20031|2003}} |{{sortname|Natalia|Galkina}} |Renaud's Residence | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20032|2003}} |{{sortname|Leonid|Zorin}} |Jupiter | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20033|2003}} |{{sortname|Athanasius|Mamedov}} |Frau Scar | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20034|2003}} |{{sortname|Elena|Chizhova}} |Laura | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20035|2003}} |{{sortname|Leonid|Yuzefovich}} |Kazaroza | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2004|2004}} | {{sortname|Vasily|Aksyonov}}* | Voltairiens and Voltairiennes | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2004/|title=Archive – 2004|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/soviet-mammoth-vasily-aksyonov-19322009 | publisher = Words Without Borders | access-date = 5 June 2013 | title = Soviet Mammoth: Vasily Aksyonov, 1932–2009| first = Margarita|last= Meklina| date = 13 July 2009}} | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20041|2004}} |{{sortname|Oleg|Zaionchkovsky}} |Sergeyev and the Town | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20042|2004}} |{{sortname|Anatoly|Kurchatkin}} |The Sun was Shining | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20043|2004}} |{{sortname|Marta|Petrova}} |Shilkloper's Horn | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20044|2004}} |{{sortname|Lyudmila|Petrushevskaya}} |Number One or in the Gardens of other Opportunities | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20045|2004}} |{{sortname|Alexey|Slapovsky}} |Quality of Life | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2005|2005}} | {{sortname|Denis|Gutsko}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2005/|title=Archive – 2005|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rgsqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Denis+Gutsko%22+%22russian+booker%22+2005 | title = Russian Studies in Literature, Volume 44, Issue 4 |first = M. E. |last = Sharpe | date = 2008 | access-date = 5 June 2013}} | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20051|2005}} |{{sortname|Boris|Evseev}} |Little Romance | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20052|2005}} |{{sortname|Oleg|Yermakov}} |Canvas | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20053|2005}} |{{sortname|Anatoly|Naiman}} |Kablukov | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20054|2005}} |{{sortname|Roman|Solntsev}} |Bonanza | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20055|2005}} |{{sortname|Roman|Solntsev}} |Except for Lavrikov | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20056|2005}} |{{sortname|Elena|Chizhova}} |A Criminal | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2006|2006}} | {{sortname|Olga|Slavnikova}}* | 2017 | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2006/|title=Archive – 2006|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/olga-slavnikova | title = Olga Slavnikova | publisher = Words Without Borders | access-date = 5 June 2013 }} | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20061|2006}} |{{sortname|Zakhar|Prilepin}} |Sanka | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20062|2006}} |{{sortname|Dina|Rubina}} |On the Sunny Side of the Street | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20063|2006}} |{{sortname|Denis|Sobolev}} |Jerusalem | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20064|2006}} |{{sortname|Alan|Cherchesov}} |Villa Belle Letra | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20065|2006}} |{{sortname|Peter|Aleshkovsky}} |A Fish | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2007|2007}} | {{sortname|Aleksandr|Ilichevsky}}* | Matisse | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2007/|title=Archive – 2007|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-178898751.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160415115002/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-178898751.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 15 April 2016 | work = World Literature Today| publisher = HighBeam Research | title = Aleksandr Ilichevsky. Matiss.(Book review) | access-date = 5 June 2013 | date = 1 May 2008 | first = Alisa | last = Ballard}} | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20071|2007}} |{{sortname|Andrei|Dmitriev|Andrei Dmitriev (writer)}} |Bay of Joy | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20072|2007}} |{{sortname|Yuri|Malecki}} |The End of a Needle | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20073|2007}} |{{sortname|Igor|Sakhnovsky}} |The Man Who Knew Everything | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20074|2007}} |{{sortname|Aleks|Tarn}} |God Does Not Play With Dice | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20075|2007}} |{{sortname|Lyudmila|Ulitskaya}} |Daniel Stein, Translator | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2008|2008}} | {{sortname|Mikhail|Elizarov}}* | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20081|2008}} |{{sortname|Vladimir|Sharov}} |Be as Little Children | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20082|2008}} |{{sortname|Ilya|Boyashov}} |Armada | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20082|2008}} |{{sortname|Elena|Nekrasova}} |Schukinsk and Other Places | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20082|2008}} |{{sortname|Galina|Shchekina}} |Grafomanka | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20082|2008}} |{{sortname|German|Sadulaev}} |Crack | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2009|2009}} | {{sortname|Elena|Chizhova}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2009/|title=Archive – 2009|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/culture/8431774/Russians-return-to-serious-literature.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140422215122/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/culture/8431774/Russians-return-to-serious-literature.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 22 April 2014 | work = The Daily Telegraph | access-date = 5 June 2013 | date = 6 April 2011 | title = Russians return to serious literature | first = Pavel | last = Basinsky}} | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20091|2009}} |{{sortname|Roman|Senchin}} |Eltyshevy | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20092|2009}} |{{sortname|Alexander|Terekhov}} |Stone Bridge | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20093|2009}} |{{sortname|Boris|Khazanov}} |Yesterday's Eternity | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20094|2009}} |{{sortname|Yelena|Katishonok}} |Once Upon a Time an Old Man and Old Woman | |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20095|2009}} |{{sortname|Leonid|Yuzefovich}} |Cranes and Dwarfs | |
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* Winners
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2010|2010}} | {{sortname|Elena|Kolyadina}}* | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/2010/|title=Archive – 2010|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/45383-koliadina-wins-russian-booker.html | work = Publishers Weekly | title = Koliadina Wins Russian Booker | first = Teri |last= Tan | access-date = 5 June 2013 | date = 3 December 2010}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20101|2010}} |{{sortname|Oleg|Zaionchkovsky}} |Happiness is Possible |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20102|2010}} |{{sortname|Andrei|Ivanov|Andrei Ivanov (writer)}} |A Journey of Hanuman on Lolland |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20103|2010}} |{{sortname|Mariam|Petrosyan}} |The House, In Which... |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20104|2010}} |{{sortname|German|Sadulaev}} |Shali Raid |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20105|2010}} |{{sortname|Margarita|Khemlin}} |Klotsvog |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2011|2011}} | {{sortname|Alexander|Chudakov}}* | A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps | {{cite web|url=http://lenta.ru/news/2011/12/01/booker/|script-title=ru:'Русского Букера десятилетия' посмертно присудили Александру Чудакову|trans-title='Russian Booker Prize of the century' awarded posthumously to Alexander Chudakov|publisher=Lenta.ru|language=ru|access-date=7 June 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/news/44/|script-title=ru:Объявлены Финалисты "Русского Букера Десятилетия" 2001–2010 гг.|trans-title=Announcement of the finalists for the 10th Anniversary of the Russian Booker, 2001–2010|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{Cite web | url = http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/49717-russian-booker-of-the-decade-goes-to-chudakov.html | title = Russian Booker of the Decade Goes to Chudakov | first = Teri | last = Tan | work = Publishers Weekly | access-date = 5 June 2013 | date = 2 December 2011}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20111|2011}} |{{sortname|Oleg|Pavlov}} |Karaganda Ninth-Day Requiem or The Story of the Last Days |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20112|2011}} |{{sortname|Zakhar|Prilepin}} |Sanka |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20113|2011}} |{{sortname|Roman|Senchin}} |Eltyshevy |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20114|2011}} |{{sortname|Lyudmila|Ulitskaya}} |Daniel Stein, Translator |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2012|2012}} | {{sortname|Andrei|Dmitriev|Andrei Dmitriev (writer)}}* | The Peasant and the Teenager | {{cite web|url=http://www.russianbooker.org/news/44/|script-title=ru:Объявлены Финалисты "Русского Букера"-2012|trans-title=Announcement of the finalists for the 2012 Russian Booker|publisher=Russian Booker Prize|language=ru|access-date=23 January 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_12_05/Russian-Booker-goes-to-The-Villager-and-the-Teenager/ |title=Russian Booker goes to The Villager and the Teenager |work=Voice of Russia|publisher=All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company|author=Olga Bugrova |date=5 December 2012 |access-date=6 December 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://newsru.com/cinema/04dec2012/booker.html |script-title=ru:"Русского букера" за 2012 год получил Андрей Дмитриев |language=ru |work=Newsru |date=4 December 2012 |access-date=6 December 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.russianbooker.org/news/52/ |script-title=ru:Лауреатом "Русского Букера"-2012 Стал Андрей Дмитриев|trans-title=Andrey Dimitriev wins 2012 Russian Booker |publisher=Russian Booker Prize |language=ru |access-date=6 December 2012}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20121|2012}} |{{sortname|Marina|Akhmedova}} |Khadija, Notes of a Death Girl |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20122|2012}} |{{sortname|Yevgeni|Popov|Yevgeni Anatolyevich Popov|Popov, Yevgeni}} |Arbeit, Or A Wide Canvas |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20123|2012}} |{{sortname|Olga|Slavnikova}} |Light Head |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20124|2012}} |{{sortname|Marina|Stepanova}} |The Women of Lazarus |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20125|2012}} |{{sortname|Alexandr|Terekhov}} |The Germans |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2013|2013}} | {{sortname|Andrei|Volos|Andrei Volos}} | Возвращение в Панджруд ("Return to Panjrud") |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2014|2014}} | {{sortname|Vladimir|Sharov|Vladimir Sharov}} | Возвращение в Египет ("Return to Egypt") |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2015|2015}} | {{sortname|Alexander|Snegirev|Alexander Snegirev}} | Vera |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20151|2015}} |{{sortname|Alisa|Ganieva}} |Bride and Groom |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20152|2015}} |{{sortname|Vladimir|Danikhnov}} |The Lullaby |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20123|2015}} |{{sortname|Yuri|Pokrovsky}} |Among People |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20154|2015}} |{{sortname|Roman|Senchin}} |Flood Zone |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background-color:transparent;" |{{sort|20155|2015}} |{{sortname|Guzel|Yakhina}} |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2016|2016}} | {{sortname|Peter|Aleshkovsky|Peter Aleshkovsky}} | Крепость ("The Citadel") |
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!scope="row" style="text-align:center; font-weight:normal; background:#B0C4DE;"|{{sort|2017|2017}} | {{sortname|Aleksandra|Nikolaenko|Aleksandra Nikolaenko}} | Убить Бобрыкина. История одного убийства ("To Kill Bobrykin. The Story of One Killing") |
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Criticism
The Russian Booker was famous for unpredictable and paradoxical decisions that did not always attract the approval of Russian literary experts.{{cite web |title="Дневник читателя". "Убить Бобрыкина" за Букер |url=https://ria.ru/20171212/1510772573.html |date=12 December 2017 |website=Радио Sputnik |language=ru}}
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.[https://polka.academy/articles/518?block=1505 П. Рыжова. «Время ночь» Л. Петрушевской] // «Полка», 2018. 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"Вп. Новиков «Скукер» // «Время и мы». [https://vtoraya-literatura.com/pdf/vremya_i_my_147_2000.pdf 2000 — № 147]. — C. 187 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'."Елена Фанайлова [http://magazines.russ.ru/km/2006/2/bu6.html Русский Букер и все-все-все] // «Критическая Масса». 2006. — № 2 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."[http://www.pravoslavie.ru/smi/36380.htm Юрий Поляков: «Букеровская премия нанесла ущерба литературе не меньше, чем КГБ»] // Православие.Ru, 4 февраля 2008 г. 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".{{cite web |author=Dmitry Bykov |author-link=Dmitry Bykov |url= https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2010/12/06/391-kak-vybiraet-buker-da-kak-vse-hudshee |title= Как выбирает "Букер"? Да как все: худшее… |publisher= «Novaya Gazeta», № 137, 6 December 2010 |date= 6 December 2010 |quote=«Букер» в России появился в 1992 году и сразу же обозначил тренд — удивительную способность выбрать из шести романов худший или, во всяком случае, наименее значимый. }}
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».Трунин К. Лауреаты российских литературных премий, 2018. — 765 стр. {{ISBN|978-5-4493-9805-5}}{{cite web | url=http://trounin.ru/russianbooker/ | title=О премии "Русский Букер" | date=22 November 2018 }}
References
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External links
- {{in lang|ru}} [http://www.russianbooker.org/ Russian Booker Prize], official site
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Category:Awards established in 1992
Category:Russian literary awards