Anti-Booker prize
Anti-booker (Russian: Антибукер) Russian literary award that existed between 1995 and 2001. Established by newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta using money of Boris Berezovsky. Its name refers to British-sponsored Russian Booker and differences are:
- prize was to be one dollar more than the Russian Booker
- not limited to novels, but has 5 nominations (also poetry, stageplays, literary critics and memoirs)
- current year's works were awarded.
Judging panel
Judges included well-known journalists, editors, literary critics and artists:
- Andrei Vasilevsky, editor-in-chief of Novy Mir;
- Natalya Ivanova, assistant of editor-in-chief of Znamya;
- Andrei Volos, writer awarded at Anti-booker 98;
- Victor Toporov, literary critics and translator;
- Yevgeniy Rein, poet;
- Natalya Trauberg, translator;
- Alexander Guelman, author of many Soviet stageplays;
- Irina Kupchenko, People's Artist of the USSR;
- Oleg Tabakov, People's Artist of the USSR
et al.
Winners
- 1995 - Aleksei Varlamov, Nativity (Рождение) (novel)
- 1996 - Dmitri Bakin (pseudónim), Country of origin (Страна происхождения) (novel)
- - Sergei Gandlevski, Holiday (Праздник) (poetry)
- - Ivan Saveliev, Voyage at the edge (Путешествие на краю) (piece)
- 1997 - Dmitri Galkovsky, Infinite Dead-end (Бесконечный тупик) (novel) - Dmitri Galkovski declined the prize
- - Timur Kibirov, Paráfrasis (Парафразис) (poetry)
- - Oleg Bogayev, Russian popular post (Русская народная почта) (stageplay)
- - Aleksandr Goldstein, Farewell to Narciss (Прощание с нарциссом) (literary critics)
- 1998 - Andrei Volos, Hurramabad (Хуррамабад) (novel)
- - Maksim Amelin, cycle of poetry Follow Sumarokov with olive of victory (За Сумароковым с победною оливой) (poetry)
- - Maksim Kurochkin, Ironwill (Стальова воля) (stageplay)
- - Oleg Davydov, Demon of Solzhenitsyn (Демон Солженицына) (literary critics)
- - Emma Gershtein, Memoirs
- - Marina Tarkovski, Shackles of mirror (Осколки зеркала) (Memoirs)
- 1999 - no prose was awarded
- - no poetry was awarded; prize was kept and later awarded Boris Ryzhi, From Sverdlovsk with love
- - Evgeni Grishkovets, Notes of Russian voyager and Winter (Записки русского путешественника, Зима) (stageplays)
- - Pavel Basinski, (literary critics)
- - Aleksandr Ivanchenko, Bathing of red horse (poem without heroes), (Купание Красного коня (поэма без героев))
- 2000 - Boris Akunin Coronation or ultimate from Romanov (Коронация, или Последний из РОМАНОВ) (novel)
- - Bajyt Kenzheiev, Girl from the morning dream (Снящаяся под утро) (poetry)
- - Vasili Sigarev, Plasticine (Пластилин) (stageplay)
- - Evgeni Yermolin, (literary critics)
- - Aleksei Filippov , Diary of desperation and hope (Дневник отчаяния и надежды)
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