Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER LITERARY PRIZE
ЛИТЕРАТУРНАЯ ПРЕМИЯ «НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ БЕСТСЕЛЛЕР»
http://www.natsbest.ru/ (official site)
National Bestseller is the annual Russian Literary Prize awarded in Saint Petersburg in June for the best prose work written in Russian within a calendar year. The award was established in 2001 by Viktor Toporov, a Russian writer, translator, and literary critic, and Konstantin Tublin, a publisher, businessman, writer, the founder of the Limbus Press publishing house. The motto of the prize is “Wake up famous!” The winner receives an award of 250 000 rubles. Finalists receive 60 000 rubles each.
Pictures
Viktor Toporov (1946 - 2013)
the award founder
2011. Kseniia Sobchak and Artemii Troitskii
2012. Sergei Shnurov and Viktor Toporov
2013. Figl-Migl, the winner, and Artemii Troitskii
2014. Ksenia Buksha
Astoria Hotel in Saint Petersburg
2012. Panel of judges
2014. Vladimir Sharov, a finalist (right), and his nominator Evgenii Vodolazkin
2014. Panel of judges
2015. Sergei Nosov, the winner (left), and his nominator Pavel Krusanov
