Russian Literary Award “National Bestseller. Famous winners of the "National Bestseller" award & nbsp Russian writer winner of the national bestseller award

Among the contenders are "Shadow of Mazepa" by Sergei Belyakov, "Lives of the Murdered Artists" by Alexander Brener, "Motherland" by Elena Dolgopyat, "F20" by Anna Kozlova, "Patriot" by Andrei Rubanov, "Tadpole and Saints" by Andrei Filimonov and "This Country" Figlya- Migly.

Until the results are summed up, let's recall the 10 most notable authors who have become laureates of this prestigious award in different years.

Leonid Yuzefovich

The famous Russian writer was awarded the prize twice. For the first time in the year of the establishment of "National Best" (in 2001) for the book "Prince of the Wind".

The second time he received the award after 15 years for the documentary novel "Winter Road". The book tells about a forgotten episode of the Civil War in Russia, when the white general Anatoly Pepelyaev and the anarchist Ivan Stroda fought in Yakutia for the last piece of land controlled by the Whites.

Dmitry Bykov

Like Leonid Yuzefovich, Dmitry Bykov twice became the winner of the National Best. In 2011, he received it for the novel Ostromov, or the Sorcerer's Apprentice. And earlier, in 2006, for the biography of Boris Pasternak in the ZhZL series.

Both times, Bykov's victory caused dissatisfaction among some members of the organizing committee, who believed that the writer "has already taken place as a celebrity, he is loved and read by everyone," and the task of the award is to reveal the unrealized potential of novice authors. “And the more pleasant it is to win when the organizing committee does not want it so much,” said Dmitry Lvovich.

Viktor Pelevin

The most enigmatic contemporary Russian writer won the National Best Award for his novel DPP. NN. This year, Pelevin was also nominated for it with the novel "The Lamp of Methuselah, or the Ultimate Battle of the Chekists with the Freemasons."

However, the book did not make the shortlist and dropped out of the literary race. But the novel may well receive the Big Book Award. The chances of the master are quite high.

When in 2005 the National Best Prize was awarded to Mikhail Shishkin's novel Venus Hair, many began to say that this is exactly what a real bestseller should be.

Zakhar Prilepin

Zakhar Prilepin was repeatedly called the "writer of the year" along with Boris Akunin and Viktor Pelevin, and his mention in the media was several times ahead of even Lyudmila Ulitskaya.

Dmitry Bykov, mentioned above, called this collection a modern "Hero of Our Time" for "continuing the best trends of Soviet society, with an emphasis on culture, education, love of life."

Alexander Terekhov

The winner of 2011 was Alexander Terekhov with a novel about the life of the capital's officials "The Germans".

After his victory, Zakhar Prilepin admitted that he considers Terekhov a real classic of Russian literature along with Nabokov. After the release of the book, many expected it to be filmed as soon as possible.

According to the plot, the main character heads the press center of the Moscow prefecture and is torn between problems at work and at home. The book was so skillfully written that even at the stage of the manuscript was among the contenders.

Andrey Gelasimov

Prose writer and screenwriter Andrey Gelasimov became known to the Russian reader after the publication of his story "Fox Mulder is like a pig" almost 16 years ago. Since then, he has published many excellent novels, novellas and short stories.

But Gelasimov's main book triumph is National Best for his novel Steppe Gods, a book about a captive Japanese who lives in Russia and writes memoirs for his relatives in Nagasaki.

The idea came to the writer after a personal tragedy, when he wrote letters to his mother from Moscow to Irkutsk, not being able to see each other, "show grandchildren."

The writer admits that over the long years of separation he forgot what his own mother looked like. This tragedy formed the basis of the "Steppe Gods".

Ilya Boyashov

"The Way of Muri" by Ilya Boyashov is a story about a cat walking through all of Europe in search of lost prosperity: an armchair, a blanket and a bowl of milk.

Wit, easy philosophy and love for cats did their job, and in 2007 the book was awarded the "National Best".

Alexander Prokhanov

The novel "Mr. Hexogen" tells about the tragic events of 1999, in particular, about a series of explosions in residential buildings.

The book was published three years after the terrorist attacks and the beginning of the Second Chechen campaign and immediately aroused heated discussions among journalists, critics and ordinary readers.

One way or another, Prokhanov became the winner of the National Best. He handed over his cash prize to the infamous Eduard Limonov, calling him "an artist on a leash, to whom it is impossible to be indifferent."

Sergey Nosov

St. Petersburg writer Sergei Nosov in 2015 became the winner of the "National Best" for the novel "Curly Braces".

According to the author, the book is written in the style of "magical realism", in which the main character, a mathematician-mentalist, is forced to investigate the death of his friend, who in recent years has shared his body with another person who has been placed in it.

In the notebook of the deceased, the thoughts of the “settlement” were highlighted in curly brackets - which gave the name to the work.

The award was established in 2001 by the National Bestseller Foundation. "National Bestseller" is the main non-state award in Russia, reflecting current trends in Russian literature and cultural life of the country. The competition covers the entire field of Russian literature, regardless of the political and ideological preferences of the authors. The creation of an absolutely new and absolutely open procedure is an important moment and a guarantee of choosing the best work created in prose in Russian during the calendar year. The motto of the award is "Wake up famous!", The main goal of the competition is to present worthy writers to the general public. "National Bestseller" is a literary award, the results of which are announced in St. Petersburg, and has a reputation as the most independent and not controlled by anyone. Over the years, such writers as Pelevin, Prokhanov, Yuzefovich and others became laureates of the National Best.

Official site of the Russian Literary Prize "National Bestseller".

2019 - Andrey Rubanov

The 2019 award winner is Andrey Viktorovich Rubanov with romance "Finist - Clear Falcon".

Andrey Rubanov - Russian prose writer, screenwriter. He is best known as the author of books in the genre of autobiographical prose, or "new realism". In 2017, he won the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize in the Modern Russian Prose nomination for his novel The Patriot.

Rubanov created a real fairy tale for adults, captivating with a combination of magic and realism, in which the modern is intertwined with the ancient, and the ordinary with the magical. This is not just another retelling of a beautiful and sad tale, but a way to take a fresh look at the categories of “freedom”, “love”, “compassion” worn out by endless repetitions and re-understand the full depth of their meaning. Realize that they are the axis on which the world will hold even when the last hope dies.

2018 - Alexey Salnikov

The award winner was Alexey Salnikov (Yekaterinburg) with a novel "Petrovs in the flu and around it". Alexey Salnikov was born in Tartu (1978). Published in the almanac "Babylon", the magazines "Air", "Ural", "Volga". Author of three poetry collections.

Meet Petrov, Petrova and their eight-year-old son - Petrov Jr. Petrov is a car mechanic who draws black and white comics, Petrova is a librarian, Petrov Jr. is a boy who is interested in cartoons and video games. Actually, Salnikov's novel is dedicated to a few days in the life of those with flu. The temperature delirium of the characters justifies numerous lyrical digressions, memories from the past, children's comics about astronauts, and dreams. Details and trifles are written out very colorfully.

2017 - Anna Kozlova

Anna Kozlova received the National Bestseller award for her novel F20.

Anna Kozlova was born in 1981 in Moscow. In 2003 she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov. Author of six books and numerous film and television scripts. The novel "People with a Clear Conscience" reached the final of the National Bestseller Award.

Anna Kozlova's book is called as a diagnosis. F20 - paranoid schizophrenia in the International Classification of Diseases. And the author tells about what is usually completely unknown to most readers. About children with schizophrenia. This is a bright, witty, tragic and at the same time incredibly life-affirming book about a disease that we don’t usually talk about, much less write about. Anna Kozlova makes a bold attempt to get into the inner world of a schizophrenic teenager and write about how this bizarre world interacts with the real world.

“The great property of great writers is to aptly operate with great social problems, transforming them into individual psychologism, and in this sense there is no doubt that Anna Kozlova is a great writer,” said literary critic Apollinaria Avrutina.

Leonid Yuzefovich received the National Bestseller award in 2016 for his historical novel The Winter Road.

This is Yuzefovich's second "National Best" - the first was received for the novel "Prince of the Wind" back in 2001, when the award was just beginning.

The writer has been working on The Winter Road all this time and even longer. Twenty years ago, a historian by education, he discovered in the archive the diary of the white general Anatoly Pepelyaev, who had raised an uprising against the Bolshevik authorities in Yakutsk. Since then, a study has been carried out that has included many other papers. But from the documentary texture, for which L. Yuzefovich is valued, a real work of art has grown - with a beautiful conflict, love drama and complex ethical throwing of characters. L. Yuzefovich has already addressed the topic of the Civil War, for example, in the documentary "Autocrat of the Desert", dedicated to Baron Ungern von Sternberg.

“What I feel now is very similar to what I felt 15 years ago when I received the National Best for the first time. Then I did not wake up famous, but I received literary fame. This is a lot in our time. And now, when I stand on this stage with a bouquet, I remembered the famous aphorism of Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin: "This has never happened, and here it is again." I am a little embarrassed: if I were the chairman of the jury, I would vote for a person who does not have literary fame. I hope that after the ceremony Mikhail Odnobible will receive it.”

For the first time in the history of the award, the ceremony could be watched from anywhere in the world thanks to the Internet broadcast, which was conducted on the website and on the YouTube channel of the award.

The winner of the National Bestseller Literary Award in 2015 was the prose writer and playwright Sergei Nosov, who was nominated for his novel Curly Braces.

Sergei Nosov, a graduate of the Literary Institute, was born in 1957 in Leningrad. He began publishing as a poet and later became known as a prose writer and playwright. His novel The Mistress of History reached the finals of the Russian Booker in 2001. In 1998, Nosov received the award of the Golden Pen journalists' competition for the program Literary Fanta on Radio Russia. His most popular plays are the tragicomedies Don Pedro and Berendey.

“Of course, it is nice to receive awards. To be honest, I assumed that it would turn out a little differently. National Best is famous for its unpredictability, since some expectations were associated with my person, I thought that there would be a different result.

Sergey Nosov

2014 - Ksenia Buksha

Ksenia Buksha won the 14th annual National Bestseller Literary Award.

The votes of the main jury were distributed as follows: actress Yulia Aug voted for Vladimir Sorokin's novel "Telluria", TV presenter Tatyana Gevorkyan voted for "1993" by Sergei Shargunov, screenwriter of "Smeshariki" and "Atomic Forest" Alexei Smirnov - for "Return to Egypt" Vladimir Sharova, the founder of the Phalanster project Boris Kupriyanov and last year's National Best winner Figl-Migl preferred Xenia Buksha's novel "The Svoboda Plant" and, finally, the artist Nikolai Kopeikin voted, like Aug, for Sorokin's Telluria.

In the superfinal between two books that received two votes each, writer Leonid Yuzefovich, honorary chairman of the jury, made his choice. Announcing his choice, Yuzefovich noted that in this pair the decision was easy for him - he chose the novel by the young, although by no means a beginner writer Ksenia Buksha, "The Freedom Plant".

The winner will receive 225,000 rubles, which she will share 9:1 with her nominee, critic Valeria Pustova.

Recall that Ksenia Buksha became the second woman laureate and the fourth writer from St. Petersburg - the winner of the "National Bestseller" for the entire time of its existence.

Ksenia Buksha's new novel is based on factual material, but it has nothing in common with realism (both old and new). The outdated form of a production novel in the hands of a modern writer has been completely renewed, and each of the forty chapters of the book is written stylistically apart, which creates the effect of a multi-layered text. Author's illustrations bear additional constructive load. With all this, the book turned out to be extremely lively and fascinating, deep and honest.

The winner in the nomination "National Best Beginning", established this year to reward authors under the age of 35, has become Anna Starobinets with a collection of short stories "Icarus Iron".

General Director of 2x2 Lev Makarov said: “All the books that came to us were very worthy, Ksenia Buksha generally won the main National Best of this year. In our nomination, we chose the book by Anna Starobinets for the uniqueness of the genre in which she works, for the fact that she looks ahead with us.”

Anna Starobinets- Journalist and writer, author of the books "The Transitional Age", "Vault 3/9" and "Cold Snap". Born October 25, 1978 in Moscow, studied at the Oriental Lyceum, then at the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Philology. Throughout her life, she has been engaged in a variety of activities, from a simultaneous interpreter and a private English tutor to a poster poster and even a waitress. After graduating from Moscow State University, she got a job at the Vremya Novostey newspaper. Since then, he has been involved in journalism. In different periods she worked in the following publications: Vremya Novostey, Gazeta.ru, Arguments and Facts, Expert, Gudok. She worked as a journalist and editor of the culture department. At the moment he works in the magazine "Russian Reporter". In addition, he writes scripts for films and television.

Anna Starobinets is one of the few Russian-speaking authors who masterfully work in the horror fiction style. Some critics believe that Starobinets is much more than a Russian master in the western field, they believe that she is a pioneer in the genre of "new Russian horror" and, perhaps, it is from her that the tradition of new Russian horror will begin.

Together with Vadim Sokolovsky, Starobinets worked on the script for the Russian fantasy film The Book of Masters (2009).

2013 - Figl-Migl

The winner of the "National Bestseller" - 2013 was the novel Figl-Migl "Wolves and Bears".

Evgeny Vodolazkin's "Laurel" and Maxim Kantor's "Red Light" were tacitly considered favorites. With a decisive vote of the chairman of the Small Jury, Lev Makarov, the general director of the 2 × 2 TV channel, the prize was awarded to Figl, the author, who had previously remained incognito, appeared on the stage, which caused a stir among guests and journalists. Realizing that the finest hour had come, she nervously read from the stage a list of ironic epithets addressed to her, collected over two years of underground and written down on a library card. Then the author promised to serve the fatherland, asked the philosopher and public figure Konstantin Krylov about something in his ear, who, together with the Ukrainian writer Sergei Zhadan, preferred her novel to the rest, and left the stage, refusing to communicate with journalists.

2012 - Alexander Terekhov

2012 National Bestseller Winner Alexander Terekhov for the novel "The Germans" "about the horrors of our life" in the form of a biography of a Moscow official. Weighty, subtly poisonous and accurate in social diagnoses, Terekhov's new novel is dedicated not to Moscow of the 1940s (like the previous book, Stone Bridge), but to modern Moscow.

The natural habitat of the characters-wards of Terekhov is corruption. It has its own system of relations, its own language (in addition to the textbook already “roll back”, there is also “bring in”, “resolve issues”, “work through such and such”). The writer does not paint this phenomenon, he gives the usual background, underpainting, moves the reader to understand the metaphysical nature of Russian corruption. According to Terekhov (well, according to the national tradition), corruption is akin to art or spiritual practice, since it requires full service from its adherents, without a trace. This is a phenomenon that seems to be outside the law, but is an indispensable rule of the game. And a condition for the existence (and development) of the state in its current form.

2011 - Dmitry Lvovich Bykov

On June 5, 2011, the final of the eleventh "National Bestseller" was held in St. Petersburg. The jury's votes were divided between the novel Figla-Miglia "You love these films so much" and romance Dmitry Bykov "Ostromov, or the Sorcerer's Apprentice". The chairman of the jury, TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, used her right to choose, making it in favor of Dmitry Bykov's Ostromov. “There is a lack of good scripts in the literature,” said the chairperson, “I vote first of all for good quality.”

Journalist, writer and poet Dmitry Lvovich Bykov was born on December 20, 1967 in Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. He collaborated or published in almost all Moscow weeklies and several daily newspapers, regularly in Ogonyok, Evening Club, Capital, Obshchaya Gazeta and Novaya Gazeta. Since 1985, he has been working at Interlocutor. Member of the Writers' Union since 1991. Author of five poetry collections, novels "Justification" And "Spelling", a collection of essays "Fornication of Labor". In 2006 for the book "Boris Pasternak" Dmitry Bykov received the National Bestseller award. Novel "Evacuator" in 2006 received the Student Booker Award.

Anniversary award "Super-Natsbest" - Zakhar Prilepin

In 2011, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the award, it was decided to present the Super-Natsbest anniversary award (in the amount of 100 thousand dollars) for the best book among the winners of the National Bestseller award over the past 10 years. The condition of the award is the presence of the laureate at the final ceremony on May 29, 2011.

According to an open vote of the jury, headed by Aide to the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich, the Super-Natsbest Prize of 100 thousand dollars was received by the writer Zakhar Prilepin for the Book of the Decade acclaimed collection of short stories "Sin".

In addition to the award-winning "Sin", Prilepin wrote novels "Black Monkey", "Sankya" and "Pathologies", he published collections of stories, essays, journalism, his interviews with writers and poets. The writer lives in a house near Nizhny Novgorod with his wife and three children, a fourth is due soon. Prilepin treats the victory in the "Super-National Best" contest with humor and does not perceive the prize as a reason to rest on his laurels: after all, " literary reputation must be earned throughout life, it is not given along with the prize once and for all.

2010 - Eduard Stepanovich Kochergin

“Chief Artist of the Bolshoi Drama Theater named after G.A. Tovstonogov Eduard Kochergin received the National Bestseller book award for his autobiographical novel about the post-war years Baptized with Crosses.

Eduard Stepanovich Kochergin was born in 1937 in Leningrad. In 1960 he graduated from the production department of the Leningrad Theater Institute. From 1972 to this day - the main artist of the Bolshoi Drama Theater (now named after G.A. Tovstonogov). Head of the workshop of theatrical and decorative art of the Faculty of Painting of the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Russian Academy of Arts. Full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1991), laureate of State and international awards.

He led a personal column in the Petersburg Theater Journal. He was published as a prose writer in the magazines Znamya and Zvezda. In 2003, the first book of his stories, "Angel's Doll", was published. In 2009, "Baptized with Crosses. Notes on the Knees" were released.

Baptized with the Crosses is based on the author's memories of the post-war years, when he escaped from an orphanage in Omsk for the children of "enemies of the people" and went home to Leningrad. The title of the book is an old password for thieves in law who were imprisoned in Crosses along with political prisoners of the Stalin era. The novel became a continuation of the autobiographical collection "Angel's Doll".

Recall that the following books reached the finals of "National Best":

Roman Senchin "The Eltyshevs" (Moscow, 2009)

Andrey Astvatsaturov "People naked" (M., 2009)

Vasily Avchenko "Right wheel" (M., 2009)

Pavel Krusanov "Dead language" (St. Petersburg, 2009)

Oleg Lukoshin "Capitalism" (zh-l "Ural", 2009, No. 4)

Eduard Kochergin "Baptized with Crosses" (St. Petersburg, 2009).

2009 - Andrey Valerievich Gelasimov

Winner of the "National Bestseller" award in 2009 for the novel "Steppe Gods".

Andrey Gelasimov was born in 1966 in Irkutsk. By the first profession - a philologist, by the second - a theater director. In the early 1990s, he published in the journal Smena a translation of the novel Sphinx by the American writer R. Cook. In 2001, Andrey Gelasimov's book "Fox Mulder is like a pig" was published, the title story of which was shortlisted for the Ivan Belkin Prize for 2001. For the story "Thirst" (2002), the writer was awarded the honorary prize named after Apollon Grigoriev and was again in the top five applicants for the Belkin Prize. In September 2003, the magazine "October" publishes the novel "Rachel". This novel won the Student Booker Award in 2004. In 2005, at the Paris Book Fair, he was recognized as the most popular Russian writer in France. Gelasimov's works have been translated into 12 foreign languages. Lives in Moscow. Currently, he is engaged exclusively in literary work.

The basis of the novel "Steppe Gods" is the story of friendship between a Transbaikal teenager and a captive Japanese doctor Hirohito. Transbaikalia on the eve of the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ten-year-old hungry kids play war and dream of becoming heroes. The secret of the mines where Japanese prisoners die is known only to the doctor Hirohito. They don't believe him. It's time for the steppe gods...

“This victory is not mine,” Alexander said in a very brief laureate speech, “it is a common victory in that war that we won fifty years ago.”

2008 - Zakhar Prilepin

Zakhar Prilepin (real name - Evgeny Nikolaevich Lavlinsky) was born in the Ryazan region, in the family of a teacher and a nurse. Graduated from UNN. N.I. Lobachevsky, Faculty of Philology. School of Public Policy. Journalist. Previously: handyman, security guard, loader, commander of the OMON department, etc. Published since 2004: "Friendship of Peoples", "Continent", "New World", "Cinema Art", "Roman-newspaper". Zakhar Prilepin is a discovery in the prose of recent years. His novels "Pathology" and "Sankya" became finalists for prestigious literary awards - "National Bestseller" and "Russian Booker".

In the novel "Sin" the hero is a young man, talented, bright, able to both love and hate to the very end. Neither the work of a gravedigger, nor the position of a bouncer, nor Chechnya turn him into a skeptic, an "underground character." This book "causes a desire to live - not to vegetate, but to live to the fullest" ...

Laureate of awards: 2005: Literary Russia edition award, 2006: Roman-newspaper award in the Discovery nomination, 2007: All-Chinese literary award "The Best Foreign Novel of the Year" - Sankya novel, 2007: Yasnaya Polyana award “For an outstanding work of modern literature - the novel "Sankya", 2007: the award "Faithful Sons of Russia" - for the novel "Sin", 2008: the award "Soldier of the Empire" - for prose and journalism. In addition, the French edition of Zakhar Prilepin's Pathologies received the prestigious Russophonie award in France for the best translation of a Russian book.

Zakhar Prilepin is one of those writers who know life firsthand, one of those who have plunged into its very thick more than once, passed through the crucible of armed conflicts and other hardships of life. In 1996 and 1999, he served as the commander of the OMON in Chechnya, repeatedly participated in hostilities, and risked his life. This contributed to the formation of his irreconcilable position in life, made him firm, unwilling to back down or compromise. It was no accident that he joined the National Bolshevik Party, headed by the writer Eduard Limonov. His literary work is a direct continuation of his life and a vivid reflection of his views on society. Zakhar Prilepin is a tough, implacable writer who does not hide his political predilections.

The official website of the writer is http://www.zaharprilepin.ru/. The project "New Literary Map of Russia" also introduces the writer's work, publications about the writer and interviews with him are given. Several publications by Zakhary Prilepin can be found in the Russian Life project,

In our library you can get acquainted with the following works by Zakhar Prilepin:

• Prilepin, Z. Pathologies: Roman / Z. Prilepin, // North. - 2004. - N 1 - 2. - S. 7 - 116.
• Prilepin, Z. Stories: [Contents: White Square; Nothing will happen; ] / Z. Prilepin // New World. - 2005. - N 5. - S. 106 - 115.
• Prilepin, Zakhar Sankya: a novel / Z. Prilepin. - M.: Ad Marginem, 2006. - 367 p.
• Prilepin, Zakhar Sin: a novel in stories / Z. Prilepin. - M.: Vagrius, 2007. - 254, p.

2007 - Ilya Boyashov

In 2007, the National Bestseller Award was presented for the seventh time. The writer's book was awarded Ilya Boyashov "The Way of Muri".

Ilya Boyashov lives in Peterhof, teaches history at the Nakhimov School, writes historical novels. “We have a beautiful story about the cat Muri from Bosnia. A shell hit his house during the war - now the mustachioed wanders around Europe in search of a new home. A cat doesn't need much: a warm fireplace, a soft blanket plus some milk in the morning and something meaty for lunch or dinner. In return, he is ready to provide the owners with his location - that is, the very fact of existing with them under the same roof. This is exactly how it should be, Muri believes, willingly expounding this theory to all relatives, as well as brownies and spirits that he meets on the way. The cat sees little fairies tumbling in the dew, and the angels of death who have come for the souls of the soldiers, but their fuss does not touch Muri. He has his own way - where the eyes and mustache look. Hair on end, tail pipe.

The keen and wise eye of Boyashov discerned in the charming furry beasts the true bearers of the Nietzschean spirit of superiority - and such writer's vigilance can only be applauded. However, not only to her - the author, who had previously written several dystopias, suddenly released a parable, completely devoid of the usual tediousness for this genre, a fascinating fairy tale with travels and chases. And an excellent knowledge of zoopsychology: after all, according to scientists, cats consider people to be their animals, and not vice versa.

The shortlist of the National Bestseller this year was truly representative: it included novels by three famous writers - The Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin, Daniel Stein, Translator by Lyudmila Ulitskaya and ZhD by Dmitry Bykov.

2006 - Dmitry Bykov

Dmitry Bykov won the first prize for his book Boris Pasternak from the series The Life of Remarkable People.

Dmitry Lvovich Bykov was born in 1967 in Moscow. Writer, journalist, poet. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. The author of journalistic, literary criticism, polemical articles that were published in many magazines and newspapers, regularly - in "Sobesednik" (he has been working in the magazine since 1985), since 1993 he has been published in "Spark" (observer - since 1997). For many years, Novaya Gazeta has been publishing interviews with the writer, as well as reviews of his new books - ZhD, Spelling and others. He is actively published in online magazines, such as "Russian Life", "Seance" magazine. Member of the Writers' Union since 1991.

The book Pasternak is about the life, work and miracle-working of one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, Boris Pasternak; declaration of love for the hero and the world of his poetry. The author does not scrupulously trace the path of his hero from day to day, he tries to reproduce for himself and the reader the inner life of Boris Pasternak, so full of tragedy and happiness.

The reader is involved in the main events of Pasternak's life, the socio-historical catastrophes that accompanied him all the way, those creative connections and influences, obvious and hidden, without which the existence of any talented person is unthinkable. The book gives a new interpretation of the legendary novel "Doctor Zhivago", which played such a fatal role in the life of its creator.

"Mr Hexogen"

2002 National Bestseller Award Winner

The last years of the past century are full of tragic events, among which the Chechen campaign stands out as a bloody line. Retired foreign intelligence general Viktor Beloseltsev finds himself embroiled in a political war zealously fueled by former Soviet intelligence officers and Chechen fighters. Promoting their man to the pinnacle of power, the Conspirators use assassinations, Kremlin intrigues, house bombings, provocations, etc. Herculean efforts are required from General Beloseltsev to somehow influence the development of events. His view of the events of recent Russian history is sometimes shocking in its unexpectedness, but this makes the book bright, interesting and captivating.

The novel caused a stormy reaction from politicians, critics, and the public. And the opinions are diametrically opposed. As Nemtsov said, “this is not literature at all, not art, but some kind of crazy fabrications,” noting that, in his opinion, “many scenes and descriptions of recognizable people are not just indecent, but immoral.” In turn, Gennady Zyuganov said that Prokhanov's books “reveal the essence of the tragedy that happened to the country. In the novel "Mr. Hexogen" this dramatic turning point is conveyed most convincingly and vividly. Any serious person who reflects on the fate of the country should read the book.”

Critic Lev Pirogov called the novel "a delightful text", noting the political relevance of the work. Ivan Kulikov characterizes the novel as "the most terrific cyberpunk of 500 percent test". Mikhail Trofimenkov, jury member of the National Bestseller Award, praised the novel as "a bright event, such a crazy and crazy book."

S. Chuprinin in the Znamya magazine wrote with regret that the novel did not become "a formidable indictment addressed to the FSB, the authorities, and the entire Putin regime." On the contrary, according to the author, the hypothesis about the involvement of special services in the explosions of residential buildings was discredited and rendered harmless, which he regarded as "a victory of the current government, exceptional in its intentions." An article of extremely negative content was published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, calling Prokhanov an anti-Semite and an "odious publicist."

Reviews

Guest: H.F.

Wonderful book! Mainly due to the fact that the author is unusually perspicacious, and perfectly understands what is really happening in the country. Of course, he combines communism, nationalism, Orthodoxy, and monarchism in a very strange way, which is somewhat annoying, but this is not nonsense at all, but Prokhanov’s personal sympathies, which is excusable, given what era his youth fell on. Still, the style of presentation itself looks somewhat unusual, some kind of classic (in the spirit of simplified Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), while countercultural books are more customarily read in a different, more raw and tough style, as is usually the case. Again, age ... But these are trifles. The main thing is the plot. The book is undoubtedly exclusively artistic, and intersects with reality only in places (how often - who knows?), however, for any really smart person it will be useful as a pointer in which direction to look (if there is still vision).

Tryn_Grass

The book is excellent. The visionary author does not impose anything, unlike many, he only describes. It's just that the odiousness of the figure interferes with the uncomplicated, tysyzyt, perception. Well, the style is limping in places, but who has it generally impeccable?

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov

(26.02.1938, Tbilisi)

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov was born on February 26, 1938 in Tbilisi. In 1960 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, worked as an engineer at a scientific research institute. In the last year of high school he began to write poetry and prose. In 1962-1964 he worked as a forester in Karelia, took tourists to the Khibiny, took part in a geological party in Tuva.

Since 1970, he worked as a correspondent for the newspapers Pravda and Literaturnaya Gazeta in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Angola and other places. In 1971 he published his first fiction and non-fiction books: "I'm going on my way" and "Letters about the village". In 1972, Prokhanov became a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR.

From 1989 to 1991, Prokhanov worked as the editor-in-chief of the Soviet Literature magazine. In December 1990 he created his own newspaper Den. In 1991, during the presidential elections in the RSFSR, Prokhanov was a confidant of candidate General Albert Makashov. During the August putsch, Prokhanov supported the State Emergency Committee.

In September 1993, he spoke in his newspaper against Yeltsin's actions, calling them a coup d'état, and supported the Supreme Council. After the tank shooting of the Parliament, the newspaper Den was banned by the Ministry of Justice. The editorial office of the newspaper was destroyed by riot police, property and archives were destroyed.

In November 1993, Prokhanov registered a new newspaper, Zavtra, and became its chief editor. In the 1996 presidential election, Prokhanov supported the candidacy of the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, in 1997 he became a co-founder of the Patriotic Information Agency.

He is fond of drawing in the style of primitivism. Collects moths. Married, has two sons and a daughter.

Major works

• 1971 - "I'm going on my way", "Letters about the village
• 1972 - "Burning Color"
• 1974 - "The grass is turning yellow"
• 1975 - "In your name", "Reflections of Mangazeya"
• 1976 - "Wandering Rose"
• 1977 - "Time is noon"
• 1980 - "Location"
• 1981 - "The Eternal City"
• 1982 - "A tree in the center of Kabul"
• 1984 - "In the islands of a hunter", "Burning Gardens", "Poison shield
• 1985 - "And here comes the wind
• 1985 - "On the distant frontiers", " Lighter than azure"
• 1988 - "There, in Afghanistan"
• 1989 - "Drawings of a battle painter", "Notes on the armor", "600 years after the battle"
• 1993 - "The last soldier of the empire"
• 1994 — "Angel flew"
• 1995 - "Palace"
• 1998 - "Chechen blues"
• 1999 — "Red-brown"
• 2002 - "Africanist", "Mr Hexogen"
• 2004 - "Cruiser Sonata", "Chronicle of dive time" (collection of editorials of the newspaper "Tomorrow")
• 2005 - "Inscription", "Political Scientist"
• 2006 - "The Gray-haired Soldier", "Motor ship "Joseph Brodsky", "Symphony of the Fifth Empire
• 2007 - "Beyond the Rublyovka fence", " Fifth Empire", "Friend or foe"
• 2008 — "Hill"
• 2009 — "Virtuoso"
• 2010 - "Eye"

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Garros-Evdokimov

"[puzzle"

2003 National Bestseller Award Winner

What is it: the story of how a small bank PR manager turns into a ruthless superman? Or - the history of ordinary madness? Or - the story of the end of the world, coming for one single person? Or - the Russian-language version of "Fight Club" and "American Psycho"? Or maybe a retelling of a fashionable computer game? This is a [brain]breaking: a shocking literary provocation, firmly mixed in with a tough thriller plot.

From reviews and reviews

For several days I went around and told everyone that Garros-Evdokimov was the best thing that happened in the "youth line" of Russian literature after Pelevin ... This is "Brother-2" for sane clerks from good families, half-crushed by the caterpillars of the consumer society ... In "[ head]breaking" suddenly came together a lot of things that I had long wanted to see in modern Russian literature: plot, language, hero, narrative intonation. This is an upgraded version of Pelevin's "Prince Gosplan"; it's a technical post-cyberpunk thriller; it is a vicious, off-leash bulldog social satire; this is a good story about a default in the head ... This is the best debut in the last ten years for sure. I certainly give him the most positive recommendation. These Riga people can have a very big future.

Lev Danilkin

A brilliant piece of new prose. The abstract does not lie, comparing Garros and Evdokimov with Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis. Garros and Evdokimov do not imitate them, but work as equals, although in their book there is both the savage excitement of "Fight Club", and the tangible horror of an expensive store catalog, where things are spattered with blood - a la "American Psycho". This is the rare case when the radical view (relatively speaking, anti-globalist) of the world is adequate to the radical work with the language. "[head]breaking" is an example of not only social, but also linguistic protest. One of the main literary events of this year.

Mikhail Trofimenkov

Great Christmas thriller, the best I've read in modern literature.

Sergei Shnurovhttp://www.club366.ru/books/html/golov1.shtml

This book, signed by the double surname Garros-Evdokimov, which is quite Bulgakovian in taste, does not captivate, does not enthrall, does not enchant. From it "leads", as from 0.5 "gin and tonic", drunk for the correction of mental health on an empty, untrained stomach. And in every "clerk" suddenly seems to be a killer.

Polina Kopylova, PITERbook

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About authors

Alexander Garros and Alexey Evdokimov

- Riga journalists, authors of several novels in which tough social journalism is combined with a famously twisted plot. Both were born in 1975. We met in the eighth grade of high school, having come from two different schools to one. At first they were just friends, then from time to time they began to write together in the newspaper, and then they decided to try with books. Worked in the Russian-language Riga newspaper "Hour". Alexander Garros now lives in Moscow, works for Novaya Gazeta. Alexei Evdokimov is still a Riga resident.

Their debut novel "Breaking" won the National Bestseller award, beating out venerable competitors. Subsequent books - "Gray Slime", "The Truck Factor", "Juche" - proved that Garros and Evdokimov are not only "heirs of the Strugatskys and Pelevin", as many considered them, but absolutely original authors who can combine a tough social context with a sophisticated " thriller plot.

The novel "Grey Slime" was defined by critics as an "ideological thriller". "Juche", a collection of three detective stories, built entirely on topical Russian realities. Mysticism meets politics here, intrigue is unpredictable, and the diagnosis of society is ruthless. "The Truck Factor" is an excellent thriller, rapidly gaining momentum and, as a result, from a detective "quest" with mysterious deaths and terrible coincidences, it develops into an energetic action.

Critics' opinion:

There is no doubt that of the entire current generation of 30-year-olds, it is this couple of smiling psychopaths who writes the toughest and brightest prose, the most topical, completely devoid of liberal snot and pseudo-intellectual show off.

In their works there is no place for the aching and downtrodden intellectual - the main character of Russian literature of the last half century. Garros-Evdokimov does not offer a way out, but they do not bury their heads in the sand either. They are not politically engaged, they do not belong to any parties. In their hands is only a paper-virtual news bulletin and a virtual, but by no means harmless pistol.

The hero of Garros-Evdokimov is an average person, an ordinary person, a manager, unable to piece together the puzzle of the surrounding reality. Talking about tolerance and humanism makes him sick, corporations turn him into a zombie. You can give a damn about everything and collect liquid crystal toothpicks with rhinestones and be dead, but the most refined dandy, you can go on a super-difficult climbing route. But this does not save: the oppressive, identical emptiness everywhere and in everything leads to murder, suicide. Virtual, real, anyone.

The fundamental difference between Garros-Evdokimov and other Russian writers lies in the fact that, describing Russian realities, they fundamentally reject the Russian literary tradition. The origins of their texts are in American brutal cinema and literature.

Viktor Pelevin

"DPP (NN)"

2004 National Bestseller Award Winner

Novel title "DPP (NN)" stands for "Dialectics of the Transition Period from Nowhere to Nowhere". In the center of the book is the novel "Numbers" in a necklace of stories, a novella, and even a poetic fragment that plays the role of a kind of epigraph.

Lev Danilkin about the novel:

The protagonist of the novel "DPP" is the banker Styopa, who builds his whole life as a service to the number 34; he is also afraid of the number 43. As an adult, Styopa finds out that he is the Pikachu Pokémon, and discovers the I Ching, the fortune-telling Book of Changes. When Putin's times come, Styopa meets another banker, by the name of Srakandaev (also in some ways a Pokémon), a homosexual who honors just the number 43; between them there is a conflict - about this "Numbers". In the story "Macedonian Criticism of French Philosophy" it turns out that the real owner of the Stepino and Srakandaevsky banks was the rich Tatar intellectual Kika, who discovered the Sulfur Factor formula and found out the true essence of Derrida, Baudrillard and Houellebecq. Five more stories follow, including "Akiko" (which was posted on the Internet ten days before the novel's release) and a miniature "One Vogue".

There is no doubt - Pelevin wrote a sharply satirical novel: he jokes a lot, walks through the FSB, the Chechen roof, Berezovsky, the advertising business, glamor, literary critics, parodies political television debates, etc. The characters, as always, are obsessed with Eastern philosophy - Buddha, emptiness, satori. Unexpectedly, a lot of space is devoted to homosexual relationships. The dialogues are typically Pelevin's: the mentor sneers at the naive student; only this time these roles are sliding. The narrative is chock-full of ringed, fat metaphors that the reader's imagination can feed on for quite some time.

I would call the plot of "DPP" highly unsatisfactory - it's annoying that the change of events is not due to logic, but to the manipulations that the hero performs with numbers: Styopa is going to kill Srakandaev, not because he somehow interferes with him, but because it represents the hated number 43. Fortunately, the plot of the novel is not limited to the Pokemon conflict. In addition to the toy conflict, the obvious one, there is also a real one in the novel. DPP is actually a novel about a journey: about the journey of a banker, about the journey of a samurai (hagakure), about the journey of a consumer to their dreams, about the route of oil movement; Finally, about the Way-Tao.

The real backbone of the novel is Pelevin's original geopolitical theory of Tao, which explains a lot, a lot; All. Why, with every barrel of pumped Russian oil, the Western world does not grow stronger, but weakens. Why are the ghosts of millions of Stalinist prisoners with wheelbarrows walking around the streets of London, grinning evilly. How exactly does God send the nations to x... Why are the words "Russia" and "Russian government" in Chinese written with four characters, which literally mean "temporary administration of the northern pipe." Finally, the most important thing becomes clear - why Putin, a secret agent of the Taoization of Russia and, indirectly, the West, has such a surname. Soon, very soon, "the teaching of the Tao will finally come to the plains of Eurasia in full." So here is Pelevin's main prediction, made after explaining how everything is REALLY: then everything will be Tao. One can also understand this more or less literally, as geopolitical Taoism, sinification; or it can be metaphorically, as the acquisition of the natural path, the course of things and the gradual calming down, the dying of everything that is outside of this Path.

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• Central City Library
• Family Reading Library
• City Library No. 1

Viktor Olegovich Pelevin

(22.11.1962, Moscow)

The writer Viktor Pelevin so long and skillfully mystified the public that among his young fans there was even an opinion that the real Pelevin did not exist, and almost a computer writes novels under this name.

Viktor Pelevin graduated from the Moscow Secondary English Special School No. 31 (now the Kaptsov Gymnasium No. 1520) in 1979. This school was located in the center of Moscow, on Stanislavsky Street (now Leontievsky Lane), was considered prestigious, Victor's mother, Efremova Zinaida Semyonovna, also worked there as head teacher and teacher of English. His father, Oleg Anatolyevich, also worked as a teacher - at the military department at the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman.

In the summer of 1979, Pelevin entered the Moscow Power Engineering Institute at the Faculty of Electrical Equipment and Automation of Industry and Transport. He graduated with honors in 1985 and on April 3 he was "accepted to the position of engineer at the Department of Electric Transport". In March 1987, he passed his postgraduate exams and began working on a project for an electric drive of a city trolleybus with an asynchronous motor. But he did not defend his dissertation.

Instead, in the summer of 1988, he applied for the correspondence department of the Literary Institute. He passed the written and oral exams in Russian language and literature with "excellent", the history of the USSR (orally) - also with "5", and the specialty and professional interview - with "4". As a result, Pelevin found himself in a prose seminar of a fairly well-known writer, the “soil scholar” Mikhail Lobanov.

Since 1989, he began to collaborate with the journal Science and Religion, to which he was led by a fairly well-known science fiction writer Eduard Gevorkyan. Moreover, as the editors recall, overcoming the jealousy inherent in writers, he said that Pelevin would go far. In the December issue of the magazine for 1989, Pelevin's story "The Sorcerer Ignat and People" was published; and in January for 1990 - a large article "Fortune-telling on the runes."

April 26, 1991 Pelevin was expelled from the Literary Institute. As written in order No. 559, "for separation from the institute." It is not very clear what is hidden behind the bureaucratic term "separation", since "physically" Pelevin's life from the beginning of 1990 was connected precisely with the Literary Institute, where several rooms were rented by the newly created Den publishing house, in which the young writer began working as an editor of the prose department .

In 1991, Pelevin, on the recommendation of the prose writer Mikhail Umnov, came to the "thick" literary magazine Znamya. Victoria Shokhina worked as the editor of the prose department there: “He was in the science fiction department then. He wanted to cross this border between entertaining and real prose. He could be successful, for example, like the Strugatsky brothers. But he wanted more, as I understand it, and he was right. And so Misha Umnov told him that here, they say, an aunt is sitting who understands this, and he came to me and brought Omon Ra. The story was published at the beginning of 1992, and at the end of the year Life of Insects was also printed.

Pelevin's prose is characterized by the absence of the author's appeal to the reader through the work, in any traditional form, through content or artistic form. The author does not “want to say” anything, and all the meanings that the reader finds, he subtracts from the text on his own.

Viktor Pelevin is called the most famous and most mysterious writer of the "thirty-year-old generation." The author himself is inclined to agree with this statement. Reality in his works is closely intertwined with phantasmagoria, the times are mixed, the style is dynamic to the limit, the semantic load with maximum intellectual saturation does not overwhelm the reader. His prose is a successful combination of seemingly incompatible qualities: mass character and elitism, acute modernity and immersion in the realities of the past, always seen from a very eccentric angle of view, and also the ability to look into the future that is nowhere to be disputed. Apparently, all this is a component of the incredible success of his works.

French Magazine included Viktor Pelevin in the list of 1000 most significant contemporary figures in world culture (Russia in this list, in addition to Pelevin, is also represented by film director Sokurov). At the end of 2009, according to a survey, he was recognized as the most influential intellectual in Russia.

Writer's website: http://pelevin.nov.ru/

Bibliography

• Blue lantern. - M.: Text, 1991. - 317 p.
• Underworld tambourine. Works in two volumes. - M .: Terra - Book Club, 1996. - 852 p.
• Chapaev and Void. - M.: Vagrius, 1996. - 397 p.
• Insect life. - M.: Vagrius, 1997. - 350 p.
• Yellow arrow. - M.: Vagrius, 1998. - 430 p.
• Generation "P". - M .: Vagrius, 1999. - 302 p.
• Nika. - St. Petersburg: Zlatoust, 1999. - 55 p.
• The recluse and Six-fingered. - M.: Vagrius, 2001 - 224 p.
• Omon Ra. - M.: Vagrius, 2001. - 174 p.
• All stories. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 512 p.
• Built-in reminder. - M.: Vagrius, 2002. - 256 p.
• Crystal world. - M.: Vagrius, 2002. - 224 p.
• Dialectics of the Transition Period from Nowhere to Nowhere. - M.: Eksmo, 2003. - 384 p.
• Songs of the kingdom "I". - M.: Vagrius, 2003. - 896 p.
• Holy Book of the Werewolf. - M.: Eksmo, 2004. - 381 p.
• Relics. Early and unreleased. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 351 p.
• All stories and essays. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 416 p.
• Helm of Dread. Creatiff about Theseus and the Minotaur. - M.: Open World, 2005. - 222 p.
• Empire "B". - M.: Eksmo, 2006. - 416 p.
• Numbers. - M.: Eksmo, 2006. - 320 p.
• Sorcerer Ignat and people: novels and stories. - M.: Eksmo, 2008. &- 315 p.
• P5. : Farewell songs of the political pygmies of Pindostana. - M.: Eksmo, 2008.- 288s.
• T. - M.: Eksmo, 2009. - 382 p.

Mikhail Shishkin

"Venus Hair"

2005 National Bestseller Award Winner

The protagonist of the book (as, by the way, the author himself) serves as an interpreter in a Swiss organization responsible for receiving refugees from the former USSR. From the many-voiced moan of this countless army of liars, sufferers and lunatics, frantically trying to finally get out of their inhuman homeland and break into the Swiss paradise, Shishkin's novel is woven. Terrible and realistic stories about the orphanage lawlessness or escape from Chechnya flow into phantom dreams or letters addressed to the "dear Nebuchadonosaurus"; a touching girlish diary of the singer Isabella Yuryeva grows through them - and then rolls head over heels into a semi-detective story about a stolen case. With amazing dexterity, Shishkin juggles elements of ancient myths and quotations from ancient authors, sentimental family stories and post-Soviet horror stories.

From reviews and reviews:

Critics of various trends and tastes suddenly agreed on one thing: from an ethical point of view, the novel is not good. Some accused Shishkin of narcissism and arrogance, others - that the author laments about snowy Russia, sitting on the shores of Lake Zurich. Meanwhile, I personally have not had to experience such acute pleasure and delight from reading, I don’t remember how many years. Before us is a master of the level of Mikhail Bulgakov and Vladimir Nabokov. Anyone who opens the novel will be convinced that this is not an enthusiastic exaggeration.

Maya Kucherskaya, Rossiyskaya Gazeta

A wonderful, intelligent, tragic novel about life and life. A novel consisting of many novels that do not leave indifferent, and allusions are so modern that you forget that all this was at the dawn of civilization. I read the reviews, it's sad that people have forgotten how to read and understand books. I'm worried about Proust and Joyce.

Ekaterina Posetselskaya http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2416059/

I agree with those who consider this novel an outstanding event in Russian literature. I experienced great reader happiness when I read it, and great grief when the book suddenly ended.

Olga Nikienko http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2416059/

The book is in the libraries:

• central city library
• city ​​children's and youth library
• family reading library
• City Libraries No. 1, 2
• library named after L.A. Gladina

about the author

Mikhail Shishkin

(18.01.1961, Moscow)

Mikhail Shishkin is the only Russian writer to have received three major Russian literary awards: Big Book, National Bestseller and Russian Booker. Thanks to his bright and recognizable style, intense drama and professional implementation of literary ideas, Mikhail Shishkin is already being put on a par with Joyce, Nabokov, Sasha Sokolov. The verbal traditions of Western literature of the twentieth century and the humanism of Russian literature find an organic embodiment in the writer's work.

As befits a "living classic", Shishkin is focused on himself and unhurried, publishes one novel every 5 years - but every event!

Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961. As he says in one of his interviews: “I studied at school number 59 in Starokonyushenny Lane, where my mother taught and was the director. Graduated from the Romano-Germanic Faculty of the Pedagogical Institute named after Lenin. He worked as a journalist in the magazine "Rovesnik", as a janitor, laid asphalt, taught at school. I have lived in Switzerland since 1995. It happened like this: in Moscow I met Francesca, a Slavist from Zurich. We got married and lived in a communal apartment on Chekhov. Then our son was to be born. We have moved to Switzerland. Konstantin is now five years old. When Switzerland played football with Russia, I supported Russia and he supported Switzerland. When our team won, he said: so what, I'm also Russian, so we won. And he himself laughed at his win-win position. We live in Zurich, I earn by translations, I give lessons.”

As a prose writer, Shishkin made his debut in 1993, when he published the story "Calligraphy Lesson" in the Znamya magazine. Since then, he has become a regular contributor to the magazine, which first published the novel One Night Awaits Everyone, the novella The Blind Musician, and the novel The Capture of Ishmael (1999). In 2005 The magazine also published the novel Venus Hair, which won the National Bestseller and Big Book awards.

He is also the author of the literary and historical guide "Russian Switzerland" and the book of essays "Montreux-Misolungi-Astapovo: In the footsteps of Byron and Tolstoy", which in 2005. was awarded in France for the best foreign book of the year (in the category "Essay").

Bibliography

• The Capture of Ishmael: A Novel. - St. Petersburg: INAPRESS, 2000. - 440 p.
• One night awaits everyone: A novel, a story. &- M.: Vagrius, 2001 300 p.
• Venus Hair: A Novel. — M.: Vagrius, 2005. — 478 p.
• Calligraphy lesson: Novel, short stories. — M.: Vagrius, 2007. — 349 p.

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Ilya Boyashov

"Muri's Way"

2007 National Bestseller Award Winner

The story of Muri - a young impudent cat from a Bosnian village, the "master" of a man, a woman, two children, a garden, barns, a basement and a cowshed. However, his beautiful world collapses in an instant from bomb explosions, as Yugoslavia's civil war begins in 1992. And Muri begins his wanderings throughout Europe in search of the runaway owners. Along the way, he meets people, animals, birds, spirits, who also roam the world. In fact, this is a parable, a parable about searching, finding a way, finding yourself and your place in the world. At the same time, the book is light, elegant, without the tediousness that is sometimes characteristic of the parable genre.

At the awards ceremony, Artemy Troitsky called this book "a combination of Lao Tzu and the classic Soviet children's story, Napoléon III, the Little Sand".

From reviews

BobberRU I didn't want to take up a book.... but I read it in one breath! Here are the abstracts for this book. "...this is only my track, you follow your own track..." Read!

This book, generally speaking, is not a book about a cat. And at the same time, this is a book about the cat Muri. And also about all those who for some reason embark on a journey - an Arab sheikh, obsessed with the dream of flying around the world, a giant whale constantly moving along his ocean roads, a disabled person climbing a sheer cliff. About those who have a goal at the end of this path or not. After all, the path itself can also be a goal. And Mouri has a couple of good thoughts for every traveler, as well as a fair amount of contempt for anyone who decides to stay on his couch.

Masha Mukhina http://www.gogol.ru/literatura/recenzii/zhil_byl_kot/

Jonathan Livingston (I'm only talking about feelings, in no way do I compare). Travels of the Bosnian cat. Kita. Goose. And others. The book is not exciting, but a lot of ideas are formulated that you want to write out somewhere for yourself.

Before us, the book is light in all respects: both by the smoothness of reading, and the clarity of the author's intention, and even by its physical mass. Lightweight, but by no means stupid. It can be advised to those who want to have a good time - but not to those who strive for serious, intelligent and topical reading. Maria Chepurina

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Central City Library

Ilya Vladimirovich Boyashov

Ilya Vladimirovich Boyashov was born in 1961 in Leningrad. Historian by education - graduated from the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen. He worked at the Central Naval Museum, taught history at the Nakhimov Naval School for 18 years, and is now the executive editor of the St. Petersburg publishing house Amfora. The first book, a collection of short stories, Play Your Melody, was published in 1989. However, literary fame came to Boyashov almost twenty years later, when his novel The Way of Muri won the National Bestseller Award in 2007. In 2008, the writer was once again on the crest of the award wave: his novel The Tankman, or The White Tiger reached the final of the Big Book Literary Prize. In this novel, the writer unexpectedly mystically approached the traditional theme of the Great Patriotic War, showing the metaphysical confrontation between good and evil: our tanker Ivan Naydenov, having risen from the dead, is fighting an invulnerable German ghost tank.

"The Madman and His Sons";

"Who Doesn't Know Brother Rabbit"- a story from the 1990s, where a rogue nicknamed Rabbit draws a teacher into adventures, such as organizing a school of fisticuffs. As the author himself said: “This is generally my first book, which I conceived in the mid-1990s, but finished quite recently. It was then that I met several people who were exceptionally similar to Rabbit, and I had no choice but to mold them into one recognizable image of a Russian businessman of that time.

"Armada" - a novel about how a certain state equipped its fleet to the shores of America with the aim of its complete destruction. But, when the ships were already on the march, a worldwide catastrophe occurred - the continents disappeared. The planet has turned into a continuous world ocean. The sailors were left alone in the whole wide world. And what should the brave warriors do now?

"King"- about the childhood years of the semi-mythical founder of the Russian land Rurik. It turns out that even before he began to reign in Rus', his life was full of exciting adventures.

Bibliography:

• Play your tune. - L.: Lenizdat, 1989. - 171 p.
• The madman and his sons. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2002. - 336 p.
• Armada. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2007. - 272 p.
• Mouri's path. - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House, 2007. - 232 p.
• The Tale of the Rogue and the Monk. - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House, 2007.—232 p.
• Lord officers. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2007. - 432 p.
• Tanker, or "White Tiger". - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House, 2008. - 224 p.
• King. - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House, 2008. - 272 p.

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Zakhar Prilepin

"Sin"

2008 National Bestseller Award Winner

It can be said that Zakhar Prilepin appeared in literature in order to report his extreme life experience: the war in Chechnya was reflected in "Pathologies", the activities of the NBP - in "Sanka". The third book - "Sin" - is a novel in stories and poems, and the main character in it again is him. He is a teenager, exhausted from love in the last summer of childhood (“Sin”), he is also a bouncer in a club (“Six cigarettes and so on”), he is also a gravedigger in a cemetery (“Wheels”), he is also a tired Sergeant , rescuing his soldiers in Chechnya ("Sergeant"), he is also the father of two sons ("Nothing will happen"). There is almost no plot, but it is written in such a way that it touches the soul ... As Alexandra Kulikova said: she could not believe that a person with such a hard face could write such tender prose. So Dmitry Bykov, who wrote the preface, writes that “this book contains invaluable vitamins, which are so few in current literature: courage, joy, vitality, tenderness. The book makes you want to live - not to vegetate, but to live to the fullest.

From reviews

Prilepinsky bought "Sin" at a New Year's sale in St. Petersburg - he just saw the cover and remembered that he had already seen this brutal uncle at a meeting of young writers with Putin. Rummaging through my memory, I remembered that he seemed to be a National Bolshevik, and also that I read his articles in Ogonyok and I liked these articles. I bought the book and have not regretted it. Excellent stories, lively, bright, juicy. A very nicely drawn protagonist - without narcissism, without self-deprecation ... And in the book, the feeling of happiness that is given to the main character captivates. Somehow it so happened that it is easier to write (and read about it) about a breakdown, about pain, about failure. It is not often that authors succeed in conveying this sunny, light feeling, this "holiday that is always with you", without falling into tinsel and without seasoning stories with molasses. On the contrary, it is the happiness that helps the hero feel like a person in a variety of, sometimes terrible circumstances. A rare gift of vitality. Brilliant, wonderful book. I recommend.

Weekend I read the book by Zakhar Prilepin "Sin". I didn’t finish reading it, although I didn’t start on the weekend, but much earlier. I stretch the pleasure. I'll read a few pages. I'll go do something else. I feel that I will read endlessly, i.e. I'll finish it and start again.

It is an extraordinary rarity that a happy person is also no vividly and accurately describe their feelings and the world around them.

Clear capacious and beautiful Russian language. Rest from Albany.

I can't wait to say what surprised me about the book - I was surprised by the language! And it’s not that it’s some kind of very twisted, and it seems not primitively simple, but so entertaining! Today, after all, a vocabulary that exceeds Ellochkin seems like an outlandish luxury. If I had a chance for a second meeting with this writer, I would certainly ask him about word creation. You read some sentence and realize that you yourself don’t say such words, but you really like them. They are so Russian, round, appropriate. And it's amazing - you understand the meaning and you even see what words this new word is made of and that makes you like it even more. It remains only to our shame to find out that this word is more than one hundred years old and that Russia, which is not a million-plus city, will not catch a look at it, it is ordinary and familiar to it.

color:#000000; laquo;National Bestsellernbsp; I love it when there is a choice. It seems to be scary, but /pfont-family: Arial, sans-serif width=MsoNormalnbsp;in literature. In other words, I did not expect that poems about the motherland, a milky story about young sons, about nascent love and a couple of hours from the life of the guys from the checkpoint could be placed in one book.

It's nice to see the ability to round off the story, to "close" the story without putting a moral at the end. Рnbsp; spanstyle=raquo; - a novel in stories and poems, and the main character in it again nbsp; makes me want to live. Weekends read a book by Zakhar Prilepin. Read and believe. It seems to be frank.

I advise.

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