Every first-prize winner of Russia's Big Book award (2006–2024)
The top 3 according to 4 votes from people: Dmitry Bykov — Boris Pasternak (2006) · Daniil Granin — My Lieutenant… (2012) · Eugene Vodolazkin — Chagin (2023). (Updated Jun 19, 2025.)
From Dmitry Bykov's biography of Boris Pasternak to Alexei Varlamov's Odsun: every book that won the first prize of the Big Book, the Russian national prize for the best prose work in Russian, founded in 2005. Leonid Yuzefovich won it three times, Eugene Vodolazkin and Pavel Basinsky twice.
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Top 19
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Dmitry Bykov — Boris Pasternak (2006)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2006 (2005–2006 season). Genre: biography.
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2
Daniil Granin — My Lieutenant… (2012)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2012 (2011–2012 season). Genre: novel.
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3
Eugene Vodolazkin — Chagin (2023)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2023 (2022–2023 season). Genre: novel.
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya — Daniel Stein, Interpreter (2007)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2007 (2006–2007 season). Genre: novel.
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5
Vladimir Makanin — Asan (2008)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2008 (2007–2008 season). Genre: novel.
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Leonid Yuzefovich — Cranes and Pygmies (2009)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2009 (2008–2009 season). Genre: novel.
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Pavel Basinsky — Leo Tolstoy: Flight from Paradise (2010)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2010 (2009–2010 season). Genre: non-fiction study.
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Mikhail Shishkin — The Light and the Dark (2011)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2011 (2010–2011 season). Genre: novel.
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9
Zakhar Prilepin — The Monastery (2014)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2014 (2013–2014 season). Genre: novel.
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10
Guzel Yakhina — Zuleikha (2015)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2015 (2014–2015 season). Genre: novel.
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Leonid Yuzefovich — Winter Road (2016)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2016 (2015–2016 season). Genre: novel.
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12
Lev Danilkin — Lenin: Pantocrator of Dust Motes (2017)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2017 (2016–2017 season). Genre: biography.
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13
Maria Stepanova — In Memory of Memory (2018)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2018 (2017–2018 season). Genre: book.
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14
Oleg Lekmanov, Mikhail Sverdlov and Ilya Simanovsky — Venedikt Yerofeyev: The Outsider (2019)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2019 (2018–2019 season). Genre: biography.
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15
Alexander Ilichevsky — Newton's Blueprint (2020)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2020 (2019–2020 season). Genre: novel.
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Leonid Yuzefovich — The Philhellene (2021)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2021 (2020–2021 season). Genre: novel.
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Pavel Basinsky — The True Story of Anna Karenina (2022)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2022 (2021–2022 season). Genre: book.
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18
Alexei Varlamov — Odsun (2024)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2024 (2023–2024 season). Genre: novel.
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Eugene Vodolazkin — Laurus (2013)
First prize of the Big Book award, 2013 (2012–2013 season). Genre: novel.
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