Pushkin House Russian Book Prize

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The Pushkin House 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 has been £10,000. The advisory board for the prize is made up of Russia experts including Rodric Braithwaite, Andrew Jack, Bridget Kendall, Andrew Nurnberg, Marc Polonsky, and Douglas Smith.[1]

Shortlists and Winners

2022

Judges[2]: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Baroness Deborah Bull, Archie Brown, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Ekaterina Schulmann.[3][4]

Shortlist:

  • Frank Billé and Caroline Humphrey, On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border[5]
  • Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble, Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?
  • Timothy Frye, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia[6]
  • Thane Gustafson, Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change[7]
  • Mary Sarotte, Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (WINNER)[8][9][10]
  • Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory[11]
  • Deyan Sudjic, Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow [12]
  • Lucy Ward, The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus [13]
  • Elizabeth Wilson, Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia [14]
  • Vladislav Zubok, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union [15]

2021

Judges: Fiona Hill, Declan Donnellan, Sergei Medvedev, George Robertson, Maria Stepanova[16]

Shortlist:

2020

Judges: Serhii Plokhy, Celestine Bohlen, Julia Safronova, and Richard Wright.[17]

Shortlist:

  • Sergei Medvedev - The Return of the Russian Leviathan (WINNER)[18]
  • 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.[19]

Shortlist:

  • 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.[20]

Shortlist:

  • Alexis Peri - The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press) (WINNER)
  • Victoria Lomasko - Other Russias (translated from the Russian by Thomas Campbell) (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.[21]

Shortlist:

2016

Judges: Geoffrey Hosking, Anne McElvoy, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill.[22]

Shortlist:

  • 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 Nora Seligman Favorov) (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.[23]

Shortlist:

2014

Judges: Boris Akunin, Viv Groskop, Dr Rowan Williams (chair), Catriona Kelly, Douglas Smith.[24]

Shortlist:

  • Catherine Merridale - Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History (Allen Lane) (WINNER)
  • Vladimir Alexandrov - 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.[25]

Shortlist:

References

  1. ^ "About the prize".
  2. ^ "Book Prize". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  3. ^ Times, The Moscow (2022-01-27). "Pushkin House Gets Ready for Its 10th Anniversary Book Prize". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  4. ^ Ekaterina Schulmann on the Political Future of Russia, retrieved 2022-10-13
  5. ^ Couch, Emily (2022-07-17). "'On The Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  6. ^ Sorokina, Yanina (2022-09-04). "Timothy Frye's 'Weak Strongman' Overturns the Putin Myth". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  7. ^ Berkhead, Samantha (2022-08-14). "'Klimat': A Look at Russia's Looming Climate Reckoning". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  8. ^ "История расширения НАТО и русско-еврейская семейная хроника: в Лондоне выбрали лучшие книги о России". BBC News Русская служба (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  9. ^ Berdy, Michele A. (2022-09-11). "'Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  10. ^ Times, The Moscow (2022-09-29). "2022 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Mary Sarotte". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  11. ^ Times, The Moscow (2022-09-25). "Maria Stepanova's 'In Memory of Memory'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  12. ^ Couch, Emily (2022-08-21). "'Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  13. ^ Berdy, Michele A. (2022-07-31). "Lucy Ward Investigates 'The Empress and the English Doctor'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  14. ^ Amos, Howard (2022-09-18). "Elizabeth Wilson Chronicles the Miraculous Life of Maria Yudina". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  15. ^ Times, The Moscow (2022-06-06). "Pushkin House 10th Annual Book Prize Shortlists Ten Books". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
  16. ^ "Book Prize". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  17. ^ "Book Prize 2020". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ "Book Prize 2019". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  20. ^ "Book Prize 2018". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  21. ^ "Book Prize 2017". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  22. ^ "Book Prize 2016". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  23. ^ "Book Prize 2015". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  24. ^ "Book Prize 2014". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  25. ^ "Book Prize 2013". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.

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