Anti-Booker prize

The Anti-Booker prize (Russian: Антибукер) was a 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 five 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 Gerstein, Moscow Memoirs (Мемуары)
- – Marina Tarkovski, Shards of mirror (Осколки зеркала) (Memoirs)
1999 – no prose was awarded
- – no poetry was awarded; prize was kept and later awarded Boris Ryzhy, 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 the Last of the Romanovs (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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