With the first of July comes the first Russian Booker Prize list of the year, a long list of 24 entries chosen from a field of 82 nominees. This year’s long listers include: Two books that have already won major prizes: Andrei Gelasimov ’s 2009...
Topics: awards, Booker Prize

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Ah, the inevitable seasonal spate of summer book lists has arrived! This year they got me thinking about summer reading, beach reading, and, of course, fitting Russian novels into outdoor plans. A brief aside before I get to the books. “Summer” is a.
Topics: post-Soviet fiction, Russian classics, Russian literature, Russian novels

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Il’ia Boiashov’s Танкист, или «Белый тигр» ( The Tank Driver or “White Tiger” ) is a curious hybrid of a book that blends World War 2 history, mostly about tank warfare, with fantastical fiction focusing on a tank driver who..
Topics: contemporary fiction, Il'ia Boiashov, novellas, novels, post-Soviet fiction

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“Кто бы он там ни был, а писать повести надо вот этак: просто, коротко и ясно.” “Whoever he is, stories should be written that way: simply, concisely, and clearly.” -A.S. Pushkin on the...
Topics: Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian classics, short stories

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Fontanka.ru reports that Andrei Gelasimov’s novel Степные боги ( Steppe Gods ) won the 2009 National Bestseller literary award. I’m a little surprised it won: beyond the fact that I found Steppe Gods disappointing, German Sadulaev’s...
Topics: Andrei Gelasimov, Il'ia Boiashov, Vladimir Makanin

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