Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
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]
- Archie Brown, The Human Factor (WINNER)
- Catherine Belton, Putin’s People
- Evgeny Dobrenko, Late Stalinism
- Jonathan Schneer, The Lockhart Plot
- Andrei Zorin, Leo Tolstoy
- , Moscow Monumental
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]
- Douglas Smith - Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (WINNER)
- Anne Applebaum - Iron Curtain
- Masha Gessen - The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
- Thane Gustafson - Wheel of Fortune
- Donald Raleigh - Soviet Baby Boomers
- Karl Schlögel - Moscow 1937
References[]
- ^ "About the prize".
- ^ Times, The Moscow (2022-01-27). "Pushkin House Gets Ready for Its 10th Anniversary Book Prize". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ^ "Book Prize". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
- ^ "Book Prize 2020". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Book Prize 2019". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Book Prize 2018". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Book Prize 2017". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Book Prize 2016". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Book Prize 2015". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Book Prize 2014". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Book Prize 2013". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
External links[]
- Non-fiction literary awards
- 2013 introductions
- Books about Russia
- Russian literature-related lists