Anti-Booker prize

The Anti-Booker prize (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. 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. 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,