Prilepin, Vodolazkin and Salnikov were among the finalists of the Big Book Prize
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Members of the expert jury of the national literary award “Big Book” announced the list of finalists, which included 15 authors, RIA Novosti reports. The shortlist of the award, in particular, included Zakhar Prilepin with his biography “Sholokhov. Illegal”, Evgeny Vodolazkin with the novel “Chagin” and Alexei Salnikov with the novel “Okulttreger”.
Established in 2005, the prize is awarded for the best prose work in Russian. According to the Big Book website, 3 million rubles are due for the first prize, 1.5 million rubles for the second, and 1 million rubles for the third.
The list of finalists for the 2023 Big Book Prize also includes:
- Vasily Avchenko, documentary prose “Red Sky. Non-fictional stories about earth, fire and a flying man”;
- Yuri Buida, novel “The Gift of Speech”;
- Oksana Vasyakina, novel “Rose”;
- Eduard Verkin, novel-dilogy “Snark Snark. Book 1: Chaginsk”, “narc snark. Book 2: Snow of Enceladus”;
- Mikhail Wiesel, documentary prose “Creator. The life and adventures of Anton Nosik, father of Runet, trickster, blogger and pioneer, describing three eras of the Internet in Russia”;
- Dmitry Zakharov, novel “Committee for the Protection of Bridges”;
- Alexey Kolmogorov, novel “OTMA. Salvation of the Romanovs”;
- Yevgeny Kremchukov, novel “Magic Chorus”;
- Rodion Marinichev, story “Komendan”;
- Helena Pobyarzhina, novel “Valsarb”;
- Mikhail Turbin, novel “Above the Feet from the Ground”;
- Alexandra Shalashova, novel Fireworks on the Other Side.
1st place in 2022 took Pavel Basinsky (“The True Story of Anna Karenina”), the second – Alexei Varlamov (“The Name of Rozanov”), the third – Sergei Belyakov (“Paris Boys in Stalin’s Moscow”).
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