“Russian Booker” loves our women – Moskovsky Komsomolets

The hotel “Golden Ring” in the hall “Yesenin” announced the “long list” for the prize for the best Russian novel, 2015

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The jury – Denis Gutsko, winner of “Booker” of past years, Andrey Volos (chairman, winner of last year), Maxim Krongauz philologist, literary critic Alex Mashevsky Valery Pustovaya – has done major work : 73 nominated works made in the list for a careful study of the works of 34. By October 6 should choose the best novels. This is the short list of winners.

Photo: Oleg Fochkin

Dina Rubina.

Igor Shaitanov, literary secretary of “Russian Booker” primarily introduced to the press conference with the news of London: “We have changed the chairman of the Booker committee. The representative of Britain’s David Cowan filed chairman of the Booker committee, Baroness Nicholson, and she accepted his resignation. Now the Committee together with Baroness are in search of a worthy candidate. The difficulty is that the chairman of the award must know the Russian language, at least to read in Russian, to get acquainted with the works of the competition.

In our new project – translation of one novel a year in English – is success. This is half the amount of the annual Laureate Award in the “Russian Booker” half a million rubles. The first such grant was won by Margaret Hamlin year ago with the novel “Investigator”. It has already been translated into English! Publishing is working on its publication. We provide 25 copies in English, and we will show the final dinner of the year.

Last year’s winner for the English translation – the novel “Key” Natalia Thunder – has already experienced interpreter ».

The jury gave their impressions of the competitive books. Andrew Hair was short: “75 nominated books to read, of course, very difficult.” Professional its opinion notes that in a number of books found discrepancy novel genre.

Denis Gutsko responsibly admitted: “short list” will make very difficult ».

Valeria Pustovaya noticed that Book this season begin to push our understanding of serious literary utterance. Reading the works of the “long list”, she came to realize: the best Russian novel can not be the best novel dacha for a pleasant leisure. He is much more capable of causing the reader empathy.

Alex Mashevsky noted the successful participation in the competition women authors. And among the lead characters in the novels, too, are women. Mashevsky and interesting reflections on loneliness, on the discrepancy with today’s human society, “Maybe it’s time postindividualizma when loneliness is not perceived as a kind of treasure, and people are trying to get rid of him. Many heroes go in hopes to win his loneliness. »

Trustee Award Vitaly Vavilin thanked the members of the jury for an honest and responsible attitude to important business.

In the” long list “noticeable trilogy” Russian canary “Dina Rubina,” flood zone “Roman Senchin,” thought the Wolf “Alexei Varlamov,” cold “Andrew Gelasimov. And maybe next masterpiece has not yet identified by experts.