Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize
- Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize
The Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, sometimes known as the Russian Booker Prize, is a Russian literary award modelled after the Booker Prize and inaugurated in 1992. Now established as the country's premier literary prize, it is awarded to the best work of fiction written in the Russian language each year as decided by a panel of judges, irrespective of the writer's citizenship.
From 2002 to 2005 Open Russia NGO was the general sponsor of the Booker Literary Prize in Russia, leading to its name change into the "Booker–Open Russia Literary Prize". Before the announcement of the 2005 winner, the Booker Foundation decided to end its partnership with Open Russia because Open Russia's chairman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was sentenced to nine years in prison for tax evasion.
The structure of the Booker-Open Russia is similar to the Commonwealth Booker Prize. Each year, the jury of the contest chooses from among all the participants (the so-called "long list") six best novels which forms a "short list". The eventual winner wins a cash prize of US$15,000 (originally US$12,500 until 2002), while each of the shortlisted finalist earns US$1,000.
Winners of the Booker-Open Russia
*1992: Mark Kharitonov's "Lines of Fate" ("Milashevich's Trunk")
*1993: Vladimir Makanin's "Baize-covered Table with Decanter"
*1994: Bulat Okudzhava's "The Show is Over"
*1995: Georgy Vladimov's "The General and His Army"
*1996: Andrey Sergeev's "The Stamp Album"
*1997: Anatoly Azolsky's "Cell"
*1998: Aleksandr Morozov's "Strange Letters"
*1999: Mikhail Butov's "Freedom"
*2000: Mikhail Shishkin's "The Capture Of Izmail"
*2001: Lyudmila Ulitskaya's "The Kukotsky Case"
*2002: Oleg Pavlov's "Ninth Day Party in Karaganda: or the Story of the Recent Days"
*2003: Ruben Gallego's "Black on White"
*2004: Vasily Aksyonov's "Voltairiens and Voltairiennes"
*2005: Denis Gutsko's "Without a Way"
*2006: Olga Slavnikova's "2017"
*2007: Aleksandr Ilichevskii's "Matisse"
External links
* [http://www.russianbooker.org/ Official site]
* [http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=500&id=633069/ Kommersant Article, "Booker Prize Dumps Khodorkovsky"]
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