Anti-Booker prize
# Anti-Booker prize

The Anti-Booker prize (Russian: Антибукер) was a Russian literary award that existed between 1995 and 2001. Established by newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta 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 included well-known journalists, editors, literary critics and artists:

* Andrei Vasilevsky, editor-in-chief of Novy Mir;
* Natalya Ivanova, assistant of editor-in-chief of Znamya;
* 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;
* Oleg Tabakov, 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, 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 Gerstein, Moscow Memoirs (Мемуары)
   * – Marina Tarkovski, Shards of mirror (Осколки зеркала) (Memoirs)
* 1999 – no prose was awarded
   * – no poetry was awarded; prize was kept and later awarded Boris Ryzhy, 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 Coronation, or the Last of the Romanovs (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)
