Anti-booker Russian literary award that existed between 1995 and 2001. Established by newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Nezavisimaya Gazeta is a Russian daily newspaper. Published since December 21, 1990.Information ranging from a wide variety of sources, such as reporters, political scientists, historians, art historians, as well as critics are published in the newspaper...

 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 5 nominations (also poetry, stageplays, literary critics and memoirs)
• current year's works were awarded.

Judging panel

Judges were comprised from well-known journalists, editors, literary critics and artists:

• Andrei Vasilevsky, editor-in-chief of "Novy Mir
  Novy Mir
  Novy Mir is a Russian language literary magazine that has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre-Soviet literary magazine Mir Bozhy , which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up, Sovremenny Mir , which was published 1906-1917...
  
  ";
• Natalya Ivanova, assistant of editor-in-chief of Znamya
  Znamya
  Znamya is a Russian monthly magazine, which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931-1932, the magazine was published under the name of Lokaf...
  
  ;
• 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
  People's Artist of the USSR
  People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
  
  ;
• Oleg Tabakov
  Oleg Tabakov
  Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.-Theatre career:...
  
  , People's Artist of the USSR

et al.

Winners

• 1995 - Aleksei Varlamov, Nativity (Рождение) (novel)
• 1996 - Dmitri Bakin (pseudónim), Country of origin (Страна происхождения) (novel)
  • - Sergei Gandlevski, Holiday (Праздник) (poetry)
  • - Ivan Saveliev, Voyage at the edge (Путешествие на краю) (piece)
• 1997 - Dmitri Galkovsky, Infinite Dead-end (Бесконечный тупик) (novel) - Dmitri Galkovski declined the prize
  • - Timur Kibirov, Paráfrasis (Парафразис) (poetry)
  • - Oleg Bogayev
    Oleg Bogayev
    Oleg Anatolyevich Bogayev , born 1970, is a Russian playwright based in Yekaterinburg. He has been described by Moscow Times theatre critic John Freedman as "one of the first and best-known students to graduate from [Nikolai] Kolyada’s playwriting course at the Yekaterinburg State Theatre...
    
    , Russian popular post (Русская народная почта) (stageplay)
  • - Aleksandr Goldstein, Farewell to Narciss (Прощание с нарциссом) (literary critics)
• 1998 - Andrei Volos, Hurramabad (Хуррамабад) (novel)
  • - Maksim Amelin, cycle of poetry Follow Sumarokov with olive of victory (За Сумароковым с победною оливой) (poetry)
  • - Maksim Kurochkin, Ironwill (Стальова воля) (stageplay)
  • - Oleg Davydov, Demon of Solzhenitsyn (Демон Солженицына) (literary critics)
  • - Emma Gershtein, Memoirs
  • - Marina Tarkovski, Shackles of mirror (Осколки зеркала) (Memoirs)
• 1999 - no prose was awarded
  • - no poetry was awarded; prize was kept and later awarded Boris Ryzhi, From Sverdlovsk with love
  • - Evgeni Grishkovets, Notes of Russian voyager and Winter (Записки русского путешественника, Зима) (stageplays)
  • - Pavel Basinski, (literary critics)
  • - Aleksandr Ivanchenko, Bathing of red horse (poem without heroes), (Купание Красного коня (поэма без героев))
• 2000 - Boris Akunin
  Boris Akunin
  Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili , a Russian writer. He is an essayist, literary translator and writer of detective fiction.-Life and career:...
  
   Coronation or ultimate from Romanov (Коронация, или Последний из РОМАНОВ) (novel)
  • - Bajyt Kenzheiev, Girl from the morning dream (Снящаяся под утро) (poetry)
  • - Vasili Sigarev, Plasticine (Пластилин) (stageplay)
  • - Evgeni Yermolin, (literary critics)
  • - Aleksei Filippov , Diary of desperation and hope (Дневник отчаяния и надежды)

External links

• History of the prize (in Russian)
• Article in Britannica