The big book

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The big book ( Russian Большая книга ) is the largest Russian literary prize with a total of 5.5 million rubles (135,000 euros) and the second largest literary prize in the world after the Nobel Prize for Literature. Since 2006 it has been awarded annually for the three best Russian-language works.

Novels, essays and stories as well as non-fiction books, biographies and memoirs can be nominated for the literary prize "The Big Book".

jury

The annual "The Big Book" award was initiated by official, semi-public or state institutions such as the ministries for media and culture, state television and Gazprom- Media or the Komsomolskaya Pravda publishing house . It is organized by the Center for National Literature.

From up to 1,000 submitted works, 20 experts first put together a long list, then a short list. The almost 100 members of the jury, which calls itself the "Literature Academy", select three winners from this short list each year.

Prize money

The total prize money is 5.5 million rubles (135,000 euros): 3 million rubles for the first prize, 1.5 million rubles for the second and 1 million rubles for the third prize.

The literature prize is financed by Russian companies and business associations.

Award winners

2006

Long list of 71 works, short list of 15 finalists.

  1. Dmitri Bykov , biography Boris Pasternak
  2. Alexander Kabakov, Roman Vsyo popravimo
  3. Michail Schischkin , novel The Venushaar

2007

Long list of 45 works, short list of 12 finalists.

  1. Lyudmila Ulitzkaja , Roman Daniel Stein, translator
  2. Alexei Varlamov, biography Alexei Tolstoy
  3. Dina Rubina , novel On the sunny side of the street

2008

Long list of 45 works, short list of 10 finalists.

  1. Vladimir Makanin , Roman Asan
  2. Lyudmila Saraskina, biography Solzhenitsyn
  3. Rustam Rakhmatullin, Essays Two from Moscow or the Metaphysics of Capital

2009

Long list of 48 works, short list of 13 finalists.

  1. Leonid Jusefowitsch , Roman Cranes and Dwarfs
  2. Alexander Terechow, Roman Stone Bridge
  3. Leonid Zorin, Skverny globe

2010

Long list of 49 works, short list of 14 finalists.

  1. Paul Basinsky, Leo Tolstoy. Escape from Paradise
  2. Alexander Ilitschewski , novel The Persian
  3. Wiktor Pelevin , Roman t

2011

Long list of 40 works, short list of 10 finalists.

  1. Michail Schischkin , Roman letter holder
  2. Wladimir Sorokin , novel The Snowstorm
  3. Dmitri Bykov , Roman Ostromov

2012

Short list with 14 finalists.

  1. Daniil Granin , novel My Lieutenant
  2. Alexander Kabakow and Evgeni Popow , Roman Aksjonow
  3. Marina Stepnowa, novel The women of Lazarus

2013

Long list of 36 works.

  1. Yevgeny Wodolaskin , Roman Laurus
  2. Sergei Belyakov, Gumilyov syn Gumilyova
  3. Juri Buida, Roman Vor, shpion i ubiytsa

2014

  1. Sachar Prilepin , Roman Heimstatt
  2. Vladimir Sorokin , Roman Telluria
  3. Vladimir Sharov , novel Return to Egypt

In 2014, Svetlana Alexievich received an audience award for second-hand time .

2015

  1. Gusel Jachina , Roman Suleika opens their eyes
  2. Valery Solotuchi, Roman Swetschka (The Candle)
  3. Roman Sentschin, Roman Sona Satoplenija (The flood zone)

The audience awards of the competition also went to Jachina and Solotuchi.

2016

  1. Leonid Jusefowitsch , Roman Zimniaia doroga
  2. Yevgeny Wodolaskin , Roman Luftgänger
  3. Lyudmila Ulitskaja , Roman Jakobsleiter

2017

  1. Lev Danilkin, Lenin. Pantokrator solnechnyh pylinok
  2. Sergei Shargunov , Katayev. Pogonya za vechnoy vesnoy
  3. Shamil Idiatullin, Roman Gorod Brezhnev

2018

  1. Marija Stepanowa , novel After the memory
  2. Aleksander Arkhangelski, Roman Byuro proverki
  3. Dmitri Bykov , Roman June

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marina Rumjanzewa: The big book. Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ, June 2, 2006, accessed on June 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The most important Russian book award goes to Gusel Jachina , Deutschlandradio Kultur , December 11, 2015