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2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Yesterday, July 4, 2007, the jury of the Russian Booker Literary Prize announced the long list of applicants for the award. It includes 33 novels by 33 authors.

The names of the six finalists of the award will be announced on October 4, and on December 5, 2007, the winner of the main prize - 20 thousand euros will be announced. The rest of the shortlisted authors will receive two thousand dollars each.

Who was not included in the long list, and in total 78 works were nominated for the prize - remains a secret behind seven locks. The jury members traditionally ensured that they selected "good" literature for which they "would not be ashamed."

Among the books nominated for the "Russian Booker" were already well-known works: "Railway" by Dmitry Bykov, "Daniel Stein, translator" by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, "Empire V" by Viktor Pelevin, "When the mountains fall" by Chingiz Aitmatov, "The outsider" by Anatoly Azolsky. Vladimir Sorokin went to the booker's start again. He was among the finalists in 1992 and 2002, and in 2001 the writer received the "People's Booker". And now his sensational tough satire "The Day of the Oprichnik" is one of the clear contenders for a place in the final. By the way, Lyudmila Ulitskaya is also called the most likely candidate for the "Booker double", however, if for some reason she does not receive the "big book &" earlier.

The jury of the 2007 award is headed by the writer Asar Eppel; together with him, the best novels will be selected by the poet Olesya Nikolaeva, the writer Oleg Zayonchkovsky, the director Henrietta Yanovskaya, and the critic Samuil Lurie. The Russian Booker Literary Prize, as its literary secretary Igor Shaitanov explained, exists solely to support good literature and contribute to its commercial success - literally a rocket launching talented authors into orbit.