Pushkin House Russian Book Prize

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The Pushkin House Russian 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 was £10,000. The advisory board for the prize is made up of Russia experts including Rodric Braithwaite, , Bridget Kendall, , , and Douglas Smith.[1]

Shortlists and Winners[]

2022[]

Judges: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Baroness Deborah Bull, Archie Brown, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Ekaterina Schulmann.[2]

2021[]

Judges: Fiona Hill, Declan Donnellan, Sergei Medvedev, George Robertson, Maria Stepanova[3]

2020[]

Judges: Serhii Plokhy, Celestine Bohlen, Julia Safronova, and Richard Wright.[4]

  • Sergei Medvedev - The Return of the Russian Leviathan (WINNER)[5]
  • Brian Boeck - Stalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Kate Brown - Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future               
  • Bathsheba Demuth - Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
  • Owen Matthews - An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
  • Joan Neuberger - This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia

2019[]

Judges: Rachel Campbell-Johnson, Alexander Drozdov, Sergei Guriev (chair), Alexis Peri, Andrei Zorin.[6]

  • Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Penguin) (WINNER)
  • Taylor Downing - 1983: The World at the Brink (Little, Brown Book Group)
  • Mark Galeotti - The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia (Yale University Press)
  • Ben Macintyre - The Spy and the Traitor (Viking)
  • Eleonory Gilburd - To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture (Harvard University Press)
  • Katja Petrowskaja - Maybe Esther: A Family Story (4th Estate)

2018[]

Judges: Rosalind Blakesley, Oleg Budnitsky, Nick Clegg (chair), Dervla Murphy, John Thornhill.[7]

  • Alexis Peri - The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press) (WINNER)
  • Victoria Lomasko - Other Russias (translated from the Russian by ) (Penguin, first published by n+1) (BEST RUSSIAN BOOK IN TRANSLATION)
  • Rodric Braithwaite - Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation (Profile Books)
  • Olivier Rolin - Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death (translated from the French by Ros Schwartz) (Penguin)
  • Yuri Slezkine - The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press)
  • William Taubman - Gorbachev: His Life and Times (Simon & Schuster)

2017[]

Judges: Anne Applebaum, Petr Aven, Simon Franklin (chair), Dominic Lieven, Charlotte Hobson.[8]

  • Rosalind Blakesley - The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881 (Yale University Press) (WINNER)
  • Teffi - Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and with an introduction by Edyth C. Haber) (Pushkin Press) (BEST RUSSIAN BOOK IN TRANSLATION)
  • Daniel Beer - The House of the Dead (Allen Lane)
  • Anne Garrels - Putin Country (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Simon Morrison - Bolshoi Confidential (Fourth Estate)
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Romanovs (Orion)

2016[]

Judges: Geoffrey Hosking, Anne McElvoy, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill.[9]

  • Dominic Lieven - Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia (Penguin) (WINNER)
  • Oleg Khlevniuk - Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (translated by ) (Yale University Press) (BEST RUSSIAN BOOK IN TRANSLATION)
  • Gabriel Gorodetsky, editor - Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43 (Yale University Press)
  • Bobo Lo - Russia and the New World Disorder (Brookings Institution)
  • Alfred Rieber - Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia (Cambridge University Press)
  • Robert Service - The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 (Pan Macmillan)

2015[]

Judges: Lord Browne of Madingley, Dmitry Bykov, Varya Gornostaeva, Bridget Kendall, Catherine Merridale.[10]

  • Serhii Plokhy - The Last Empire: The final days of the Soviet Union (Oneworld Publications) (WINNER)
  • and - The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book (Harvill Secker/Vintage Books)
  • Jacek Hugo-Bader - Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterland (translated by ) (Portobello Books)
  • Catriona Kelly - St Petersburg: Shadows of the past (Yale University Press)
  • Stephen Kotkin - Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 (Penguin Press)
  • Peter Pomerantsev - Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Faber)

2014[]

Judges: Boris Akunin, Viv Groskop, Dr Rowan Williams (chair), Catriona Kelly, Douglas Smith.[11]

  • Catherine Merridale - Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History (Allen Lane) (WINNER)
  • - The Black Russian (Head of Zeus)
  • Owen Matthews - Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America (Bloomsbury)
  • Anya von Bremzen - Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking (Transworld)
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick - A Spy in the Archives: a Memoir of Cold War Russia (IB Taurus)
  • Stephen Walsh - Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical Adventure (Faber and Faber)

2013[]

Judges: Sir Rodric Braithwaite, A.D. Miller, Rachel Polonsky, Lord Robert Skidelsky, Dmitri V. Trenin.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "About the prize".
  2. ^ Times, The Moscow (2022-01-27). "Pushkin House Gets Ready for Its 10th Anniversary Book Prize". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  3. ^ "Book Prize". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  4. ^ "Book Prize 2020". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  5. ^ Berdy, Michele A. (2020-10-30). "Sergei Medvedev's "The Return of the Russian Leviathan" Wins 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  6. ^ "Book Prize 2019". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  7. ^ "Book Prize 2018". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  8. ^ "Book Prize 2017". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  9. ^ "Book Prize 2016". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  10. ^ "Book Prize 2015". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  11. ^ "Book Prize 2014". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  12. ^ "Book Prize 2013". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.

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