The Russian Little Booker Prize (Малая Букеровская премия or Малый Букер) was an annual
prize awarded in 1992-2001 for a nominated
genre of writing. It was established in 1992 as part of the
Russian Booker Prize
The Russian Booker Prize (russian: Русский Букер, ''Russian Booker'') was a Russian literary award modeled after the Booker Prize. It was awarded from 1992 to 2017. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris C ...
. In 2000 it separated from the Russian Booker and became independent. The prize was founded by Francis Greene (son of
Graham Greene
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), whose sponsorship was anonymous until 2000. The nominations differed every year, to complement the Russian Booker which is awarded for novels only.
The mission of the Little Booker was to identify and encourage the most interesting and modern tendencies in Russia's literary life. Up until 2000 Russian Little Booker was awarded at the Russian Booker prize ceremonies. In 2001 it was awarded at the Non-Fiction Book Fair in Moscow.
The prize award was 4000
GBP
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.
The Public Board
The Public Board of the Little Booker included:
1. Nikolai Aleksandrov ("Ekho Moskvy" radio station)
2. Aleksandr Gavrilov ("Ekslibris" newspaper)
3. Aleksandr Ivanov
4.
Dmitri Prigov
5. Natalia Perova ("
Glas
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" magazine)
Ilia Kukulin served as consultant.
Recipients
1992 - Magazines ''Solo'' (Moscow) and ''Vestnik novoi literatury'' (Sankt-Peterburg) for the best magazine of literary debuts
1993 -
Victor Pelevin (''Sinii fonar'') for the year's best book of short stories
1994 - ''Volga'' (
Saratov
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) for the Russia's best provincial magazine
1995 - ''Rodnik'' (
Riga
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) and ''Idiot'' (
Vitebsk) for the best Russian-language literary magazine published in Russia's neighboring countries
1996 - Sergei Gandlevskii (''Trepanatsiia cherepa'') for the best first book in prose
1997 -
Mikhail Gasparov
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(''Izbrannye stat'i''),
Alexander Goldstein (''Rasstavanie s Nartsissom'') for a historical and philosophical study of Russian literature
1998 -
Emma Gerstein
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(''Memuary'', later translated to English as ''Moscow Memoirs''), Mikhail Bezrodnyi (''Konets tsitaty'') for a memoir and an autobiography dealing with Russia's literary scene
1999 -
Vladimir Bibikhin
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(''Novyi renessans'') for an essay that contributed significantly to the development of the genre
2000 - "Iuriatin" Foundation (
Perm) for a literary project
2001 - Viktor Golyshev (translation of
Ian McEwan
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's
''Amsterdam'') for translation of a novel
References
Awards established in 1992
Russian literary awards
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