Big Book (award)

Big Book (Russian: Большая Книга) is a Russian literary award for best prose in Russian.

Big Book
Awarded forBest prose in Russian
Sponsored byCenter for the Support of Domestic Literature
VenuePashkov House
CountryRussia
Reward(s)3 million RUB
First awarded2006 (2006)
Last ownerMariya Stepanova (2018)
Websitewww.bigbook.ru

The award is financed by the founders of the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature, Russian major businessmen and business structures.

Acceptable candidates for the award are works of all prose genres, including memoirs, biographies and other documentary prose, written in or translated to Russian.[1]

The cash reward is as follows:[2]

  • First place — 3 million rubles.
  • Second place — 1.5 million rubles.
  • Third place — 1 million rubles.

Founders

The founder of the Big Book National Literary Award is the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature, founded by:[3]

The chairman of the board of the center is Vladimir Grigorev, and the general director of the award and director of the center is Georgy Urushadze.[4]

The co-founders of the award are:[5]

Board of trustees

The board of trustees is the highest organ of the award. It approves and amends the regulations of the award, among other tasks.

The board of trustees is composed by:[6]

Award procedure

Formation of the list of nominees ("long list")

In the competition for the award, both published works and manuscripts can participate. Publishers, members of the Literary Academy (the jury of the award), the media, creative unions, as well as state authorities (from federal and regional level) can nominate a work or manuscript for the competition. The published work can also be put forward by the author. The work must be published (signed in print) either in the previous year or before February 28 of the current year, when acceptance of works for the award ends.

The Council of Experts selects nominees from the received applications for the "long list" (no restrictions on the number of works). Each submitted work is evaluated by at least two experts and is then recommended or rejected. The general list is finally compiled before April 30 and announced by the chairman of the Council of Experts and published on the Award's website.

Formation of the list of finalists ("short list")

The list of finalists includes from 8 to 15 works of the "long list". A collective decision is made on each work, and the majority of the experts of the board should speak for inclusion. By May 31, the list must be announced by the chairman of the Council of Experts and published on the Award's website.

The work of the Literary Academy (the jury)

The Literary Academy (award jury) consists of more than 100 people[7] — professional writers and publishers, cultural and art workers, academics, public and state leaders, journalists and entrepreneurs.

Members of the Literary Academy get acquainted with the works from the "list of finalists" and vote on them. According to the number of points awarded, the laureates of the first, second and third awards are determined. Members of the jury may convene an in-person meeting of the Literary Academy, if it is necessary to decide on whether or not to award one or several prizes (including additional ones).

Selection of the Readers' Sympathy Prize

After the announcement of the "list of finalists", a readers' vote is opened. The first three works that receive the most points from readers are awarded with commemorative statuettes. Since 2008, it is possible to read the applicants' works.[8]

Council and jury chairmen

Council of Experts

Since the creation of the award, the chairman of the Council of Experts has been the First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Novy Mir, Mikhail Butov.[9][10][11][12]

Literary Academy

The chairmen (and co-chairmen) of the Literary Academy have been:

Winners

The award was first announced on November 14, 2005.

2005—2006

The "long list" of 71 works was announced on April 26, 2006.

The short list ("list of finalists") of 15 works was announced on May 30, 2006, at a special "Literary Dinner" at GUM.

  • The results of the first season were announced on November 22, 2006:[17]
    • First prize — Dmitry Bykov for the biography Boris Pasternak.
    • Second prize — Aleksandr Kabakov for the novel Vsyo popravimo.
    • Third prize — Mikhail Shishkin for the novel Maidenhair.
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded to Nahum Korzhavin for the memoirs In Temptations of the Bloody Epoch.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize, according to the results of online voting, was received by the finalists of the award: Alexei Ivanov's Zoloto bunta, Dmitry Bykov's Boris Pasternak and Lyudmila Ulitskaya's The People of Our Tsar.

2006—2007

The second season of the award was announced on November 28, 2006.

The "long list" contained 45 works, of which 12 became finalists.

  • The winners of the second season were announced on November 22, 2007, in the Pashkov House:[18]
    • First prize — Lyudmila Ulitskaya for the novel Daniel Stein, Interpreter.
    • Second prize — Aleksey Varlamov for the biography Aleksey Tolstoy.
    • Third prize — Dina Rubina for the novel On the Sunny Side of the Street.
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded to Andrei Bitov and Valentin Rasputin.
  • The prize For Honor and Dignity was awarded posthumously to the poet and translator Ilya Kormiltsev.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Lyudmila Ulitskaya, (2) Dina Rubina and, (3) Victor Pelevin for the novel Empire V.

2007—2008

The third season of the award was announced on November 27, 2007. The reception of works ended on February 29, 2008.

The "long list" contained 45 works, of which 10 became finalists.

  • The winners of the third season were announced on November 25, 2008, at the Pashkov House:[19]
    • First prize — Vladimir Makanin for the novel Asan.
    • Second prize — Lyudmila Saraskina for the biography Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
    • Third prize — Rustam Rakhmatullin for the essay book Two Moscows, or the Metaphysics of Capitals.
  • The prize For Honor and Dignity was awarded posthumously to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Rustam Rakhmatullin, (2) Vladimir Kostin for the collection of short stories and tales Godovye koltsa and, (3) Lyudmila Saraskina.

2008—2009

The reception of works ended on February 28, 2009.

The "long list" contained 48 works, of which 13 became finalists.

  • The winners of the fourth season were announced on November 26, 2009, at the Pashkov House:[20]
    • First prize — Leonid Yuzefovich for the novel Cranes and Pygmies.
    • Second prize — Aleksandr Terekhov for the novel Stone Bridge.
    • Third prize — Leonid Zorin for the collection Skverny globus.
  • The prize For Honor and Dignity was awarded to Boris Vasilyev.[20]
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Andrey Baldin for the essay book Protyazheniye tochki, (2) Leonid Yuzefovich and, (3) Mariam Petrosyan for the novel The House in Which....[20]

2009—2010

The reception of works ended on February 28, 2010.

With 379 works nominated, the "long list", announced on April 15, 2010, contained 37 authors of published works and 12 authors of manuscripts.[21]

The list of finalists was announced on May 19, 2010, at the traditional Literary Dinner, and included 14 books and manuscripts.[22]

  • The winners of the fifth season were announced on November 23, 2010, at the Pashkov House:[23]
    • First prize — Pavel Basinsky for the novel Leo Tolstoy: Escape from Paradise.
    • Second prize — Aleksandr Ilichevsky for the novel Pers.
    • Third prize — Viktor Pelevin for the novel t.
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded posthumously to Anton Chekhov and given to the Chekhov Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Victor Pelevin, (2) Yevgeny Klyuyev for the novel Andermanir shtuk and, (3) Mikhail Gigolashvili for the novel The Devil's Wheel.

2010—2011

The reception of works ended on February 28, 2011.

375 manuscripts and books from 42 regions of Russia and 14 countries of near and far abroad were nominated for the award,[24] of which 40 works of 39 authors were included in the "long list" presented on April 20, 2011, in Joseph Brodsky's "Pelmeni" building in Moscow's Krasin Street.[25][26]

The list of finalists was announced on May 25, 2011, at the traditional "Literary Dinner" at GUM, and included ten novels.[27]

  • Winners were announced on November 29, 2011, at the Pashkov House:[28]
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Mikhail Shishkin, (2) Dmitry Bykov and, (3) Yury Buida for the novel Blue Blood.
  • The prize For Honor and Dignity was awarded to Fazil Iskander.
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded to Peter Mayer.

2011—2012

The reception of works ended on February 29, 2012.

401 works were nominated, 85 of which were manuscripts.[29]

The list of finalists was announced on May 30, 2012, and contained 14 works.[30]

The readers' vote was held between July and November 2012.

2012—2013

321 works from writers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the United States, Spain, France, Estonia, Israel, Latvia and Germany were submitted for the award. On April 24, 2013, the "long list" was announced in the memorial museum-apartment of A. Tolstoy, which included 36 works.[31]

  • Winners were announced on November 26, 2013, at the Pashkov House:
    • First prize — Yevgeny Vodolazkin for the novel Lavr.
    • Second prize — Sergey Belyakov for the book Gumilyov syn Gumilyova.
    • Third prize — Yury Buida for the novel Vor, shpion i ubiytsa.
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded to Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Maya Kucherskaya for Aunt Motya, (2) Sergey Belyakov and (3) Yevgeny Vodolazkin.

2013—2014

More than 359 works from Russia and other countries were submitted for the award. The "long list" of applicants included 29 works.[32]

  • Winners were announced on November 25, 2014, at the Pashkov House:[33]
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded to Leonid Zorin.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Svetlana Alexievich for Vremya sekond khend, (2) Zakhar Prilepin and, (3) Aleksey Makushinsky for Parokhod v Argentinu.

2014—2015

More than 338 works from Russia and other countries were submitted for the award. In the "long list" of the applicants included 30 works.[34][35]

  • Winners were announced on December 10, 2015, at the Pashkov House:
    • First prize — Guzel Yakhina for the novel Zuleikha.
    • Second prize — Valery Zalotukha for the novel Candle.
    • Third prize — Roman Senchin for the novel Zona zatopleniya.
  • The special prize For a Series of Screen Adaptations of the Classics was awarded to the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Guzel Yakhina, (2) Anna Matveyeva for Nine Nineties and, (3) Valery Zalotukha.

2015—2016
  • Winners were announced on December 6, 2016, at the Pashkov House:
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded to the Non/fiction book fair.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Lyudmila Ulitskaya, (2) Maria Galina for the novel Autochthons and, (3) Yevgeny Vodolazkin.

2016—2017
  • Winners were announced on December 12, 2017, at the Pashkov House:[36]
    • First prize — Lev Danilkin for the work Lenin. Pantokrator solnechnykh pylinok.
    • Second prize — Sergey Shargunov for the work Katayev. Pogonya za vechnoy vesnoy.
    • Third prize — Shamil Idiatullin for the novel Gorod Brezhnev.
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded to Viktoriya Tokareva.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Sergey Shargunov, (2) Lev Danilkin and, (3) Shamil Idiatullin.

2017—2018
  • Winners were announced on December 5, 2018, at the Pashkov House:[37]
    • First prize — Mariya Stepanova for the book Pamyati pamyati.
    • Second prize — Aleksandr Arkhangelsky for the novel Byuro proverki.
    • Third prize — Dmitry Bykov for the novel June.
  • The special prize For the Contribution to Literature was awarded to Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.
  • The Litblog prize was awarded to Yevgeniya Lisitsina for the literary Telegram channel greenlampbooks.
  • The Readers' Sympathy Prize was awarded to: (1) Dmitry Bykov, (2) Oleg Yermakov for the book Raduga i Veresk and, (3) Andrey Filimonov for Retsepty sotvoreniya mira.
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