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18-580: Big Book may refer to: Big Book (award) , a Russian literary award for best prose in Russian Big Book (thought experiment) , involving ethics developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous) The Big Book Of , a series of graphic novel anthologies published by the DC Comics imprint Paradox Press. The Big Read ,

36-510: A dissident position. In November 1962 the magazine became famous for publishing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's groundbreaking One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , a novella about a prisoner of the Gulag . In the same year its circulation was about 150,000 copies a month. The magazine continued publishing controversial articles and stories about various aspects of Soviet and Russian history despite

54-683: A 2003 survey carried out by the BBC, with the goal of finding the "Nation's Best-loved Book" by way of a viewer vote via the Web, SMS and telephone Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Big Book . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Book&oldid=885024779 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

72-606: Is as follows: The founder of the Big Book National Literary Award is the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature, founded by: The chairman of the board of the center is Vladimir Grigorev , and the general director of the award and director of the center is Georgy Urushadze . The co-founders of the award are: The board of trustees is the highest organ of the award. It approves and amends

90-509: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Big Book (award) The award is financed by the founders of the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature , Russian major businessmen and business structures. Acceptable candidates for the award are works of all prose genres, including memoirs, biographies and other documentary prose, written in or translated to Russian. The cash reward

108-522: Is finally compiled before April 30 and announced by the chairman of the Council of Experts and published on the Award's website. The list of finalists includes from 8 to 15 works of the "long list". A collective decision is made on each work, and the majority of the experts of the board should speak for inclusion. By May 31, the list must be announced by the chairman of the Council of Experts and published on

126-583: Is possible to read the applicants' works. Since the creation of the award, the chairman of the Council of Experts has been the First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Novy Mir , Mikhail Butov . The chairmen (and co-chairmen) of the Literary Academy have been: The award was first announced on November 14, 2005. The "long list" of 71 works was announced on April 26, 2006. The short list ("list of finalists") of 15 works

144-414: The "long list", announced on April 15, 2010, contained 37 authors of published works and 12 authors of manuscripts. The list of finalists was announced on May 19, 2010, at the traditional Literary Dinner, and included 14 books and manuscripts. The reception of works ended on February 28, 2011. 375 manuscripts and books from 42 regions of Russia and 14 countries of near and far abroad were nominated for

162-399: The Award's website. The Literary Academy (award jury) consists of more than 100 people  — professional writers and publishers, cultural and art workers, academics, public and state leaders, journalists and entrepreneurs. Members of the Literary Academy get acquainted with the works from the "list of finalists" and vote on them. According to the number of points awarded, the laureates of

180-418: The author. The work must be published (signed in print) either in the previous year or before February 28 of the current year, when acceptance of works for the award ends. The Council of Experts selects nominees from the received applications for the "long list" (no restrictions on the number of works). Each submitted work is evaluated by at least two experts and is then recommended or rejected. The general list

198-608: The award, of which 40 works of 39 authors were included in the "long list" presented on April 20, 2011, in Joseph Brodsky 's "Pelmeni" building in Moscow 's Krasin Street. The list of finalists was announced on May 25, 2011, at the traditional "Literary Dinner" at GUM , and included ten novels. The reception of works ended on February 29, 2012. 401 works were nominated, 85 of which were manuscripts. The list of finalists

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216-506: The award. The "long list" of applicants included 29 works. More than 338 works from Russia and other countries were submitted for the award. In the "long list" of the applicants included 30 works. Novy Mir Novy Mir ( Russian : Новый мир , lit.   'New World', IPA: [ˈnovɨj ˈmʲir] ) is a Russian-language monthly literary magazine . Novy Mir has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It

234-598: The fact that its editor-in-chief, Alexander Tvardovsky , facing significant political pressure , resigned in February 1970. With the appointment of Sergey Zalygin in 1986, at the beginning of perestroika , the magazine practised increasingly bold criticism of the Soviet government , including figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev . It also published fiction and poetry by previously banned writers, such as George Orwell , Joseph Brodsky and Vladimir Nabokov . Today Novy Mir

252-437: The first, second and third awards are determined. Members of the jury may convene an in-person meeting of the Literary Academy, if it is necessary to decide on whether or not to award one or several prizes (including additional ones). After the announcement of the "list of finalists", a readers' vote is opened. The first three works that receive the most points from readers are awarded with commemorative statuettes. Since 2008, it

270-440: The regulations of the award, among other tasks. The board of trustees is composed by: In the competition for the award, both published works and manuscripts can participate. Publishers, members of the Literary Academy (the jury of the award), the media, creative unions, as well as state authorities (from federal and regional level) can nominate a work or manuscript for the competition. The published work can also be put forward by

288-597: Was announced on May 30, 2006, at a special "Literary Dinner" at GUM . The second season of the award was announced on November 28, 2006. The "long list" contained 45 works, of which 12 became finalists. The third season of the award was announced on November 27, 2007. The reception of works ended on February 29, 2008. The "long list" contained 45 works, of which 10 became finalists. The reception of works ended on February 28, 2009. The "long list" contained 48 works, of which 13 became finalists. The reception of works ended on February 28, 2010. With 379 works nominated,

306-564: Was announced on May 30, 2012, and contained 14 works. The readers' vote was held between July and November 2012. 321 works from writers from Russia , Ukraine , Belarus , Kazakhstan , the United States , Spain , France , Estonia , Israel , Latvia and Germany were submitted for the award. On April 24, 2013, the "long list" was announced in the memorial museum-apartment of A. Tolstoy, which included 36 works. More than 359 works from Russia and other countries were submitted for

324-474: Was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre- Soviet literary magazine Mir Bozhy ("God's World"), which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up, Sovremenny Mir ("Contemporary World"), which was published from 1906 to 1917. Novy Mir mainly published prose that approved of the general line of the Communist Party . In the early 1960s, Novy Mir changed its political stance, leaning to

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