Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Explained

The Pushkin House Book Prize is an annual book prize, awarded to the best non-fiction writing on Russia in the English language. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize amount as of 2020 has been £10,000. The advisory board for the prize is made up of Russia experts including Rodric Braithwaite, Andrew Jack, Bridget Kendall, Andrew Nurnberg, Marc Polonsky, and Douglas Smith.[1]

Honorees

Pushkin House Russian Book Prize winners and shortlists!Year!Author(s)!Title!Publisher!Result!Ref.
2013Former People: The Final Days of the Russian AristocracyWinner[2]
Iron CurtainShortlist
Shortlist
Wheel of FortuneShortlist
Soviet Baby BoomersShortlist
Moscow 1937Shortlist
2014Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's HistoryAllen LaneWinner[3]
Head of ZeusShortlist
IB TaurusShortlist
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian AmericaBloomsburyShortlist
Anya von BremzenMastering The Art of Soviet CookingTransworldShortlist
Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical AdventureFaber and FaberShortlist
2015Oneworld PublicationsWinner[4]
and Petra CouvéeHarvill Secker/Vintage BooksShortlist
, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-JonesBader- Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterlandPortobello BooksShortlist
St Petersburg: Shadows of the pastYale University PressShortlist
Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power,1878-1928Penguin PressShortlist
Faber and FaberShortlist
2016Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist RussiaPenguin PressWinner[5]
(ed.)Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43Yale University PressShortlist
, trans. by Nora Seligman FavorovStalin: New Biography of a DictatorYale University PressShortlist
Russia and the New World DisorderBrookings InstitutionShortlist
Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in EurasiaCambridge University PressShortlist
Pan MacmillanShortlist
2017Yale University PressWinner[6]
Allen LaneShortlist
Putin CountryFarrar, Straus and GirouxShortlist
OrionShortlist
Bolshoi ConfidentialFourth EstateShortlist
Teffi, trans. by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg with an introduction by Edyth C. HaberMemories: From Moscow to the Black SeaPushkin PressShortlist
2018Harvard University PressWinner[7]
Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear ConfrontationProfile BooksShortlist
, trans. from Russian by Thomas CampbellOther RussiasPenguin (first pub. by N+1) Shortlist
, trans. from French by Ros SchwartzStalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and DeathPenguinShortlist
Princeton University PressShortlist
Gorbachev: His Life and TimesSimon & SchusterShortlist
2019Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear CatastrophePenguinWinner[8]
1983: The World at the BrinkLittle, Brown Book GroupShortlist
Yale University PressShortlist
To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western CultureHarvard University PressShortlist
VikingShortlist
Maybe Esther: A Family Story4th EstateShortlist
2020Winner[9] [10]
Stalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail SholokhovShortlist
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the FutureShortlist
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering StraitShortlist
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master AgentShortlist
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's RussiaShortlist
2021Winner
Putin’s PeopleShortlist
Late StalinismShortlist
Shortlist
Leo TolstoyShortlist
Moscow MonumentalShortlist
2022Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War StalemateWinner[11] [12]
and Caroline HumphreyOn the Edge: Life along the Russia-China BorderShortlist[13]
Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble- Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?Shortlist
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's RussiaShortlist[14]
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate ChangeShortlist[15]
In Memory of MemoryShortlist[16]
Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in MoscowShortlist[17]
Shortlist[18]
Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina- Pianist in Stalin’s Russia Shortlist[19]
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union Shortlist[20]
2023Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against UkraineWinner[21]
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet WhalingShortlist[22] [23]
Russia’s WarShortlist
Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. PetersburgShortlist
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in RussiaShortlist
Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesShortlist
2024Elena KostyuchenkoI Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena KostyuchenkoWinner[24]
Julie A. CassidayRussian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and PutinismShortlist[25]
Dan HealeyThe Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour CampsShortlist
Tom ParfittHigh Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland Shortlist
Serhii PlokhyThe Russo-Ukrainian WarShortlist
Laur VallikiviWords and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic Shortlist

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About the prize.
  2. Web site: Book Prize 2013 . 2022-02-11 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  3. Web site: Book Prize 2014 . 2022-02-11 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  4. Web site: Book Prize 2015 . 2022-02-11 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  5. Web site: Book Prize 2016 . 2022-02-11 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  6. Web site: Book Prize 2017 . 2022-02-11 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  7. Web site: Book Prize 2018 . 2022-02-11 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  8. Web site: Book Prize 2019 . 2022-02-11 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  9. Web site: Book Prize 2020 . 2022-02-11 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  10. Web site: Berdy . Michele A. . 2020-10-30 . Sergei Medvedev's "The Return of the Russian Leviathan" Wins 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize . 2020-11-03 . . en.
  11. News: История расширения НАТО и русско-еврейская семейная хроника: в Лондоне выбрали лучшие книги о России . ru . BBC News Русская служба . 2022-10-13.
  12. Web site: 2022-09-29 . 2022 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Mary Sarotte . 2022-10-13 . . en.
  13. Web site: Couch . Emily . 2022-07-17 . 'On The Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border' . 2022-10-13 . The Moscow Times . en.
  14. Web site: Sorokina . Yanina . 2022-09-04 . Timothy Frye's 'Weak Strongman' Overturns the Putin Myth . 2022-10-13 . The Moscow Times . en.
  15. Web site: Berkhead . Samantha . 2022-08-14 . 'Klimat’: A Look at Russia’s Looming Climate Reckoning . 2022-10-13 . The Moscow Times . en.
  16. Web site: 2022-09-25 . Maria Stepanova's 'In Memory of Memory' . 2022-10-13 . . en.
  17. Web site: Couch . Emily . 2022-08-21 . 'Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow' . 2022-10-13 . . en.
  18. Web site: Berdy . Michele A. . 2022-07-31 . Lucy Ward Investigates 'The Empress and the English Doctor' . 2022-10-13 . . en.
  19. Web site: Amos . Howard . 2022-09-18 . Elizabeth Wilson Chronicles the Miraculous Life of Maria Yudina . 2022-10-13 . The Moscow Times . en.
  20. Web site: 2022-06-06 . Pushkin House 10th Annual Book Prize Shortlists Ten Books . 2022-06-08 . . en.
  21. Web site: 2023-06-16 . Pushkin House Prize Awarded to Owen Matthews for 'Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine' . 2023-06-20 . . en.
  22. Web site: 2023-04-27 . Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2023 Book Prize . 2023-06-20 . . en.
  23. Web site: 2023 shortlist . 2023-06-20 . Pushkin House . en-GB.
  24. Web site: Berdy . Michele A. . 2024-06-14 . 2024 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Elena Kostyuchenko for 'I Love Russia: Reporting From a Lost Country' . 2024-07-25 . The Moscow Times . en.
  25. Web site: Book Prize 2024 Shortlist . 2024-07-25 . Pushkin House Shop . en.