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Pushkin House Book Prize
The Pushkin House Book Prize is an annual book prize, awarded to the best non-fiction writing on Russia in the English language. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize amount as of 2020 has been £10,000. The advisory board for the prize is made up of Russia experts including Rodric Braithwaite, Andrew Jack, Bridget Kendall, Andrew Nurnberg, Marc Polonsky, and Douglas Smith. Shortlists and Winners 2022 Judges: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Baroness Deborah Bull, Archie Brown, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Ekaterina Schulmann. Shortlist: * Frank Billé and Caroline Humphrey, ''On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border'' * Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble, ''Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?'' * Timothy Frye, ''Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia'' * Thane Gustafson, ''Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change'' * Mary Sarotte, ''Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate'' (WINNER) * Maria Stepanova, ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-fiction
Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with being presented more objectively, like historical, scientific, or otherwise straightforward and accurate information, but sometimes, can be presented more subjectively, like sincerely held beliefs and thoughts on a real-world topic. One prominent usage of nonfiction is as one of the two fundamental divisions of narrative (storytelling)—often, specifically, prose writing—in contrast to narrative fiction, which is largely populated by imaginary characters and events, though sometimes ambiguous regarding its basis in reality. Some typical examples of nonfiction include diaries, biographies, news stories, documentary films, textbooks, travel books, recipes, and scientific journals. While specific claims in a nonfiction work may p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Stepanova (poet)
Maria Mikhailovna Stepanova (Russian: Мари́я Миха́йловна Степа́нова; born June 9, 1972) is a Russian poet, novelist, and journalist. She is the current editor of Colta.ru, an online publication specializing in arts and culture. In 2005, she won the prestigious Andei Bely Prize for poetry. More recently, she also received the 2017–2018 Big Book Prize for her novel ''In Memory of Memory'' (''Pamyati pamyati)''. Biography Born in Moscow on June 9, 1972, Stepanova studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, where she graduated in 1995. She published poetry in Russian-language literary magazines such as ''Zerkalo'', ''Znamya'', ''Kriticheskaya massa'', and ''Novoe Literaturnoe Obozreniye'', as well as in anthologies like ''Babylon, Urbi, and Ulov''. Stepanova won many important Russian literary prizes, including the Pasternak Prize and the Andrei Bely Prize in 2005, and the Moscow Account Prize in 2006, 2009, and 2018. In 2007, Stepanova founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Boeck
Brian J. Boeck is an American historian. He obtained his doctorate in Russian history from Harvard University, and now teaches Russian and Soviet history at DePaul University in Chicago. His biography of the Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov was published to critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2020 Pushkin Book Prize The Pushkin House Book Prize is an annual book prize, awarded to the best non-fiction writing on Russia in the English language. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize amount as of 2020 has been £10,000. The advisory board for the prize is ma .... References American historians DePaul University faculty Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{US-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhy, or Plokhii ( uk, Сергій Миколайович Плохій, russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Пло́хий; born 23 May 1957) is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Personal background Serhii Plokhii was born in Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia. He spent his childhood and school years in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, where his family returned soon after his birth. Educational background Plokhii received his undergraduate degree in history and social sciences from the University of Dnipropetrovsk (1980), where he studied under professors Mykola Kovalsky and Yuri Mytsyk, and his graduate degree from the Russian University of the Friendship of Peoples (1982), specializing in historiography and source studies. He received his habilitation degree in history from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1990. Professional backgro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Zubovich
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning "pure", leading to the alternative spellings ''Katharine'' and ''Katherine''. The former spelling, with a middle ''a'', was more common in the past and is currently more popular in the United States than in Britain. ''Katherine'', with a middle ''e'', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations English In Britain and the U.S., ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. The most common variants are ''Katherine,'' ''Kathryn,'' and ''Katharine''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French. Less-common variants in English include ''Katheryn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Zorin
Andrei Andreyevich Zorin (russian: Андрей Андреевич Зорин; born 4 May 1997) is a Russian football player plays for FC Alay in the Kyrgyz Premier League. Club career He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Baikal Irkutsk on 12 March 2016 in a game against FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Tom Tomsk on 21 May 2017 in a game against FC Krasnodar. In 2020, Zorin joined Leader-Champion Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. On 4 June 2021, FC Van Football Club Van ( hy, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Վան), is an Armenian football club based in Charentsavan, Kotayk Province. History FC Van was founded on 31 May 2019 in the town of Charentsavan, Kotayk Province, by Armenian-Russia ... announced that Zorin had left the club. References External links Profile by Russian Football National League 1997 births People from Angarsk Living people Russian footballers Russian expatriate footballers Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Schneer
Jonathan Schneer (born August 9, 1948) is an American historian of modern Britain whose work ranges over labor, political, social, cultural, and diplomatic subjects. He is an emeritus professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition to writing numerous scholarly and popular books, he has written for such publications as ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''Foreign Policy''. His work has been translated into German, Chinese, and Turkish. He has appeared often on American, Canadian, and British media. He has lectured in six countries. Early life and education Jonathan Schneer was born on August 9, 1948 in New York City. His father, Richard Schneer (1919–2004), was a dentist with a practice in New York City, who retired to Berkshire County in northwestern Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to progressive causes. His mother, Sophie Solomonoff Schneer (1920–2009), was a modern dancer in New York City, who becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeny Dobrenko
Evgeny Dobrenko (born 4 April 1962) is a Russian-American historian. Born in Odessa, he moved to Moscow and worked at Moscow State University and the Russian State University of Humanities. He emigrated to the US and worked at Duke University, Stanford University, UC Irvine, Amherst College and NYU. He then moved to the UK, and worked at universities in Nottingham and Sheffield. He is now professor of Russian studies at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His lifelong area of academic interest has been Stalinist culture. He was awarded the Efim Etkind Prize for the best book about Russian Culture in 2012 and the AATSEEL Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship in 2019. His book ''Late Stalinism'' was nominated for the Pushkin House Book Prize The Pushkin House Book Prize is an annual book prize, awarded to the best non-fiction writing on Russia in the English language. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize amount as of 2020 has been £10,000. The advisory board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Belton
Catherine Elizabeth Belton is a journalist and writer. From 2007 to 2013, she was the Moscow correspondent for the ''Financial Times''. In '' Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West'', published in 2020, Belton explored the rise of Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was named book of the year by ''The Economist'', the ''Financial Times'', the ''New Statesman'' and ''The Telegraph''. It is also the subject of five separate lawsuits brought by Russian billionaires and Rosneft. She lives in London and reports on Russia for The Washington Post. Career From 2007 to 2013, Belton worked at the ''Financial Times'' as the newspaper's Moscow correspondent, having previously written about Russian current affairs for both ''The Moscow Times'' and ''Business Week''. She was also in 2016 the legal correspondent. In 2009, the British Press Awards shortlisted Belton for the Business journalist of the year award. Belton was appointed Member of the Order of the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Robertson, Baron Robertson Of Port Ellen
George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, (born 12 April 1946), is a British politician of the Labour Party who was the 10th Secretary General of NATO from 1999 to 2003; he succeeded Javier Solana. He was Secretary of State for Defence from 1997 to 1999, before becoming a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, ''of Islay in Argyll and Bute'', on 24 August 1999. Early life Born in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland, the son of George Philip Robertson (1916–2002), a policeman, and Marion Isabella Robertson Nee MacNeill (1913–1996). His mother taught French and German. His maternal grandfather Malcolm McNeill was the police sergeant at Bowmore during World War One, and wrote about the kindness of local people in shipwreck tragedies of '' SS Tuscania'' and ''HMS Otranto''. Robertson was educated at Dunoon Grammar School and studied economics at Queen's College, Dundee. When he was 15 years of age, he was involved with protests against US nuclear subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Medvedev (writer)
Sergei Aleksandrovich Medvedev (; born December 20, 1966) is a Russian scholar. He is currently a professor at the Charles University in Prague, and he has previously worked at the Marshall Center for Security Studies in Germany, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki, the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, and the Institute of Europe in Moscow. Medvedev won the 2020 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize The Pushkin House Book Prize is an annual book prize, awarded to the best non-fiction writing on Russia in the English language. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize amount as of 2020 has been £10,000. The advisory board for the prize is ma ... for his book ''The Return of the Russian Leviathan.'' The book was translated by Stephen Dalziel, and was widely praised in the US and UK. References 1966 births 21st-century Russian journalists Living people Academic staff of the Higher School of Economics People listed in Russia as media foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declan Donnellan
Declan Michael Martin Donnellan (born 4 August 1953) is an English film/stage director and author. He co-founded the Cheek by Jowl theatre company with Nick Ormerod in 1981. In addition to his Cheek by Jowl productions, Donnellan has made theatre, opera and ballet with a variety of companies across the world. In 1992, he received an honorary degree from the University of Warwick and in 2004 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his work in France. In 2010, he was made an honorary fellow of Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Donnellan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to theatre. Biography Donnellan was born in Manchester and grew up in Ealing, London. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read English and Law. After leaving Cambridge, he was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1978. He founded Cheek by Jowl with Nick Orm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
