Laureate

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

Yesterday, in the Odessa hall of the Renaissance Moscow hotel, the winner among the six finalists of the first and oldest (established in December 1991) Russian independent literary prize Russian Booker was announced. Olga Slavnikova, author of the novel "2017", became the laureate of the 2006 literary prize. The victor will receive twenty thousand dollars, the other five finalists - one thousand each.

The novel "2017" is a book about the harsh taiga everyday life of laconic men, ending with formidable futurological forecasts.

Other contenders for the award were Pyotr Aleshkovsky with the novel "Fish", Zakhar Prilepin ("Sankya"), Dina Rubina ("On the sunny side of the street"), Denis Sobolev ("Jerusalem"), Alan Cherchesov ("Villa Bel-Letra") … The novel "2017 is a book about the harsh taiga everyday life of laconic men, ending with formidable futurological forecasts. A native of Sverdlovsk, Olga Slavnikova graduated from the journalism faculty of the Ural University, in the late 1980s she worked for the magazine" Ural ", and at the same time began her writing career. Since 2001 of the year she supervises the youth literary award "Debut", having gained a reputation as almost the "godmother" of talents. The same journalists who sat at the Booker press conference in the evening received her next "debut" letter by e-mail. Organizational gift: she also stood up for "Debut" before President Putin. Mrs. Slavnikova was listed among the finalists of various literary awards. So, "Booker" already celebrated in 1994 her novel "Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog"

The fifteenth jury of the award, in addition to Alexander Kabakov, included critic Dmitry Bak, poet Timur Kibirov, novelist Roman Solntsev, TV presenter Svetlana Sorokina. The long list of awards included 41 works, with a total of 49 novels nominated for the Russian Booker.

The Student Booker Jury also awarded its award to Olga Slavnikova. On the eve of the booker's jury's decision, a round table was held on radio Kultura, in which observers from the Kultura TV channel, Itogi magazine, Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta took part. The winner of the "RadioBucker" award was announced, chosen from the six finalists by the listeners of the radio channel. Dina Rubina won the audience sympathy prize.