Russian Little Booker Prize


The Russian Little Booker Prize was an annual prize awarded in 1992-2001 for a nominated genre of writing. It was established in 1992 as part of the Russian Booker Prize. In 2000 it separated from the Russian Booker and became independent. The prize was founded by Francis Greene, whose sponsorship was anonymous until 2000. The nominations differed every year, to complement the Russian Booker which is awarded for novels only.
The mission of the Little Booker was to identify and encourage the most interesting and modern tendencies in Russia's literary life. Up until 2000 Russian Little Booker was awarded at the Russian Booker prize ceremonies. In 2001 it was awarded at the Non-Fiction Book Fair in Moscow.
The prize award was 4000 GBP.

The Public Board

The Public Board of the Little Booker included:
1. Nikolai Aleksandrov
2. Aleksandr Gavrilov
3. Aleksandr Ivanov
4. Dmitri Prigov
5. Natalia Perova
Ilia Kukulin served as consultant.

Recipients

1992 - Magazines Solo and Vestnik novoi literatury for the best magazine of literary debuts
1993 - Victor Pelevin for the year's best book of short stories
1994 - Volga for the Russia's best provincial magazine
1995 - Rodnik and Idiot for the best Russian-language literary magazine published in Russia's neighboring countries
1996 - Sergei Gandlevskii for the best first book in prose
1997 - Mikhail Gasparov, Alexander Goldstein for a historical and philosophical study of Russian literature
1998 - Emma Gershtein, Mikhail Bezrodnyi for a memoir and an autobiography dealing with Russia's literary scene
1999 - Vladimir Bibikhin for an essay that contributed significantly to the development of the genre
2000 - "Iuriatin" Foundation for a literary project
2001 - Viktor Golyshev for translation of a novel