Anti-Booker prize
The Anti-Booker prize was a Russian literary award that existed between 1995 and 2001. Established by newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta using money of Boris Berezovsky. Its name refers to British-sponsored Russian Booker and differences are:
- prize was to be one dollar more than the Russian Booker
- not limited to novels, but has five nominations
- current year's works were awarded.
Judging panel
Judges included well-known journalists, editors, literary critics and artists:- Andrei Vasilevsky, editor-in-chief of Novy Mir;
- Natalya Ivanova, assistant of editor-in-chief of Znamya;
- Andrei Volos, writer awarded at Anti-booker 98;
- Victor Toporov, literary critics and translator;
- Yevgeniy Rein, poet;
- Natalya Trauberg, translator;
- Alexander Guelman, author of many Soviet stageplays;
- Irina Kupchenko, People's Artist of the USSR;
- Oleg Tabakov, People's Artist of the USSR
Winners
- 1995 – Aleksei Varlamov, Nativity
- 1996 – Dmitri Bakin, Country of origin
- * – Sergey Gandlevsky, Holiday
- * – Ivan Saveliev, Voyage at the edge
- 1997 – Dmitri Galkovsky, Infinite Dead-end – Dmitri Galkovski declined the prize
- * – Timur Kibirov, Paráfrasis
- * – Oleg Bogayev, Russian popular post
- * – Aleksandr Goldstein, Farewell to Narciss
- 1998 – Andrei Volos, Hurramabad
- * – Maksim Amelin, cycle of poetry Follow Sumarokov with olive of victory
- * – Maksim Kurochkin, Ironwill
- * – Oleg Davydov, Demon of Solzhenitsyn
- * – Emma Gerstein, Moscow Memoirs
- * – Marina Tarkovski, Shards of mirror
- 1999 – no prose was awarded
- * – no poetry was awarded; prize was kept and later awarded Boris Ryzhy, From Sverdlovsk with love
- * – Evgeni Grishkovets, Notes of Russian voyager and Winter
- * – Pavel Basinski,
- * – Aleksandr Ivanchenko, Bathing of red horse ,
- 2000 – Boris Akunin Coronation, or the Last of the Romanovs
- * – Bajyt Kenzheiev, Girl from the morning dream
- * – Vasili Sigarev, Plasticine
- * – Evgeni Yermolin,
- * – Aleksei Filippov, ''Diary of desperation and hope''