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BOL'SHAIA KNIGA (BIG BOOK) NATIONAL LITERARY AWARD
НАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРНАЯ ПРЕМИЯ «БОЛЬШАЯ КНИГА»
http://bigbook.ru/ (official site)
The award was founded in 2005 by the Center for the Support of Russian Literature and is supported by various state, public and media organizations. The Big Book Prize is an annual literary award for the best book of any prose genre written in Russian. It is the largest literary award in Russia and the former Soviet countries and is the second largest literary award in the world in terms of prize money, just falling behind the Nobel Prize for Literature. The first prize winner receives 3 million rubles, second prize winner receives 1.5 million rubles, third prize – 1 million rubles. The winners are announced in November in Moscow. Readers select writers of their choice by casting their individual votes online. The three titles that receive the majority of readers’ votes are awarded commemorative statuettes.
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Bol'shaia Kniga commemorative statuettes
2006. Finalists
2007. Dina Rubina
2008. Margarita Khemlin and Pavel Basinskii
2009. Finalists
2010. Finalists
2010. Pavel Basinskii and Aleksandr Ilichevskii
2011. Shortlisted Books
2011. Mikhail Shishkin and Dmitrii Bykov
2012. Finalists
Evgenii Popov, Aleksandr Kabakov, Daniil Granin, Marina Stepnova, Mariia Galina
2013. Shortlisted Books
2013 Finalists
2014. Shortlisted Books
Ksenia Buksha and Svetlana Aleksievich
2014 Award Ceremony
2014. First place. Zakhar Prilepin
2014. Second place. Vladimir Sorokin
2014. Third place. Vladimir Sharov
2015. Bolshaia Kniga is 10!
Finalists are blowing candles on the birthday cake
2015. Finalists
Iakhina, Matveeva, Varlamov, Senchin, Virabov
2015. Books
