All winners of the Russian Booker Prize (1992–2017)
The top 3 according to 124 votes from people: “Line of Fate, or Milashevich’s Chest” - Mark Kharitonov (1992) · “A table covered with cloth and with a decanter in the middle” - Vladimir Makanin (1993) · “Matisse” - Alexander Ilichevsky (2007). (Updated Mar 19, 2026.)
“Russian Booker” is the first non-state literary prize in post-Soviet Russia, established in 1992 on the model of the British Booker Prize. It was received by Bulat Okudzhava, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Vasily Aksenov, Mikhail Shishkin and others. The last time the award was presented was in 2017. Here are all the laureates by year.
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Top 26
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“Line of Fate, or Milashevich’s Chest” - Mark Kharitonov (1992)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 1992. The first winner of the award.
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“A table covered with cloth and with a decanter in the middle” - Vladimir Makanin (1993)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 1993.
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“Matisse” - Alexander Ilichevsky (2007)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2007.
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4
“The Cage” - Anatoly Azolsky (1997)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 1997.
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“Other People's Letters” - Alexander Morozov (1998)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 1998.
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6
“Karaganda destinies, or the Tale of the Last Days” - Oleg Pavlov (2002)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2002.
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“Freedom” - Mikhail Butov (1999)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 1999.
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“The Kukotsky Case” - Lyudmila Ulitskaya (2001)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 2001.
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“Abolished Theater” - Bulat Okudzhava (1994)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 1994.
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10
“The General and His Army” - Georgy Vladimov (1995)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 1995.
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11
“Album for stamps” - Andrey Sergeev (1996)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 1996.
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12
“The Capture of Izmail” - Mikhail Shishkin (2000)
Winner of the Russian Booker in 2000.
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13
“Voltairians and Voltairians” - Vasily Aksyonov (2004)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2004.
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“The Librarian” - Mikhail Elizarov (2008)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2008.
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15
“2017” - Olga Slavnikova (2006)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2006.
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“The Peasant and the Teenager” - Andrey Dmitriev (2012)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2012.
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“White on Black” - Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego (2003)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2003.
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18
“Without a path or trace” - Denis Gutsko (2005)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2005.
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“Darkness falls on the old steps...” - Alexander Chudakov (2011)
In 2011, due to the lack of a sponsor, the Booker of the Decade was chosen instead of the usual award. It was posthumously received by Alexander Chudakov, who died in 2005.
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“Fortress” - Pyotr Aleshkovsky (2016)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2016.
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“Kill Bobrykin. The story of a murder" - Alexandra Nikolaenko (2017)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2017. Last laureate: the award ceased to exist in 2019.
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“Time for Women” - Elena Chizhova (2009)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2009.
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“Vera” - Alexander Snegirev (2015)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2015.
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“Return to Panjrud” - Andrey Volos (2013)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2013.
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“Return to Egypt” - Vladimir Sharov (2014)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2014.
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“Flower Cross” - Elena Kolyadina (2010)
Winner of the Russian Booker 2010.
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Шишкин за «Взятие Измаила» — заслуженно. А вот «Библиотекаря» до сих пор не понимаю, за что дали