38-952: Annual English-language book prize for non-fiction writing about Russia 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 . Honorees [ edit ] Pushkin House Russian Book Prize winners and shortlists Year Author(s) Title Publisher Result Ref. 2013 Douglas Smith Former People: The Final Days of
76-601: A Dictator was named the Best Russian Book in Translation. ^ The 2017 judging panel was chaired by Simon Franklin and included Anne Applebaum , Petr Aven , Dominic Lieven , and Charlotte Hobson. ^ Memories was named the year's best Russian book in translation. ^ The 2018 judging panel was chaired by Nick Clegg and included Rosalind Blakesley , Oleg Budnitsky, Dervla Murphy , and John Thornhill. ^ Other Russias
114-801: A Lost Country' " . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2024-07-25 . ^ "Book Prize 2024 Shortlist" . Pushkin House Shop . Retrieved 2024-07-25 . External links [ edit ] Pushkin House Book Prize website Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pushkin_House_Russian_Book_Prize&oldid=1255052166 " Categories : Non-fiction literary awards 2013 introductions Books about Russia Russian literature-related lists Hidden categories: CS1 Russian-language sources (ru) Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles with hCards Non-fiction Non-fiction (or nonfiction )
152-445: A non-fiction work may prove inaccurate, the sincere author aims to be truthful at the time of composition. A non-fiction account is an exercise in accurately representing a topic, and remains distinct from any implied endorsement. The numerous narrative techniques used within fiction are generally thought inappropriate for use in non-fiction. They are still present particularly in older works, but are often muted so as not to overshadow
190-914: Is a British translator of Polish literature based in London. She is best known as the long-time translator of Olga Tokarczuk 's works in English, including Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019. The former co-chair of the Translators Association in the United Kingdom from 2015 to 2017, she is also a mentor for the Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme in
228-479: Is also possible. Some fiction may include non-fictional elements; semi-fiction is fiction implementing a great deal of non-fiction, (such as a fictional description based on a true story). Some non-fiction may include elements of unverified supposition , deduction , or imagination for the purpose of smoothing out a narrative , but the inclusion of open falsehoods would discredit it as a work of non-fiction. The publishing and bookselling businesses sometimes use
266-470: Is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith , to convey information only about the real world , rather than being grounded in imagination . Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively based on historical, scientific, and empirical information. However, some non-fiction ranges into more subjective territory, including sincerely held opinions on real-world topics. Often referring specifically to prose writing, non-fiction
304-809: Is one of the two fundamental approaches to story and storytelling , in contrast to narrative fiction , which is largely populated by imaginary characters and events. Non-fiction writers can show the reasons and consequences of events, they can compare, contrast, classify, categorise and summarise information, put the facts in a logical or chronological order, infer and reach conclusions about facts, etc. They can use graphic, structural and printed appearance features such as pictures , graphs or charts , diagrams , flowcharts , summaries , glossaries , sidebars , timelines , table of contents , headings , subheadings , bolded or italicised words, footnotes , maps , indices , labels , captions , etc. to help readers find information. While specific claims in
342-512: The National Centre for Writing and has mentored several early-career translators from Polish into English. Antonia Lloyd-Jones graduated from Oxford after studying Russian and Ancient Greek. After first travelling to Wrocław in 1983 during the period of martial law to visit friends who had been involved in protests, Lloyd-Jones intended to report on the social unrest as a journalist and began learning Polish . While working as
380-935: The Age of Climate Change Shortlist Maria Stepanova In Memory of Memory Shortlist Deyan Sudjic Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow Shortlist Lucy Ward The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus Shortlist Elizabeth Wilson Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina- Pianist in Stalin’s Russia Shortlist Vladislav Zubok Collapse: The Fall of
418-634: The Archives: a Memoir of Cold War Russia I.B. Tauris Shortlist Owen Matthews Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America Bloomsbury Shortlist Anya von Bremzen Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking Transworld Shortlist Stephen Walsh Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical Adventure Faber and Faber Shortlist 2015 Serhii Plokhy The Last Empire: The final days of
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#1732791390788456-926: The Black Sea Pushkin Press Shortlist 2018 Alexis Peri The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad Harvard University Press Winner Rodric Braithwaite Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation Profile Books Shortlist Victoria Lomasko , trans. from Russian by Thomas Campbell Other Russias Penguin (first pub. by N+1 ) Shortlist Olivier Rolin , trans. from French by Ros Schwartz Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death Penguin Shortlist Yuri Slezkine The House of Government: A Saga of
494-618: The Dead Allen Lane Shortlist Anne Garrels Putin Country Farrar, Straus and Giroux Shortlist Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs Orion Shortlist Simon Morrison Bolshoi Confidential Fourth Estate Shortlist Teffi , trans. by Robert Chandler , Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg with an introduction by Edyth C. Haber Memories: From Moscow to
532-590: The End of Tsarist Russia Penguin Press Winner Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed.) Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43 Yale University Press Shortlist Oleg Khlevniuk , trans. by Nora Seligman Favorov Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator Yale University Press Shortlist Bobo Lo Russia and
570-1357: The English Doctor' " . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ Amos, Howard (2022-09-18). "Elizabeth Wilson Chronicles the Miraculous Life of Maria Yudina" . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ "Pushkin House 10th Annual Book Prize Shortlists Ten Books" . The Moscow Times . 2022-06-06 . Retrieved 2022-06-08 . ^ "Pushkin House Prize Awarded to Owen Matthews for 'Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine' " . The Moscow Times . 2023-06-16 . Retrieved 2023-06-20 . ^ "Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2023 Book Prize" . The Moscow Times . 2023-04-27 . Retrieved 2023-06-20 . ^ "2023 shortlist" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2023-06-20 . ^ Berdy, Michele A. (2024-06-14). "2024 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Elena Kostyuchenko for 'I Love Russia: Reporting From
608-1426: The Future Shortlist Bathsheba Demuth Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait Shortlist Owen Matthews An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent Shortlist Joan Neuberger This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia Shortlist 2021 Archie Brown The Human Factor Winner Catherine Belton Putin’s People Shortlist Evgeny Dobrenko Late Stalinism Shortlist Jonathan Schneer The Lockhart Plot Shortlist Andrei Zorin Leo Tolstoy Shortlist Katherine Zubovich Moscow Monumental Shortlist 2022 Mary Sarotte Not One Inch: America, Russia, and
646-768: The Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate Winner Frank Billé and Caroline Humphrey On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border Shortlist Jan Matti Dollbaum Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble- Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? Shortlist Timothy Frye Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia Shortlist Thane Gustafson Klimat: Russia in
684-952: The New World Disorder Brookings Institution Shortlist Alfred Rieber Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia Cambridge University Press Shortlist Robert Service The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 Pan Macmillan Shortlist 2017 Rosalind Blakesley The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881 Yale University Press Winner Daniel Beer The House of
722-785: The Post-Soviet Arctic Shortlist Notes [ edit ] ^ The 2013 judges were Sir Rodric Braithwaite , A.D. Miller, Rachel Polonsky , Lord Robert Skidelsky , and Dmitri V. Trenin . ^ The 2014 judging panel was chaired by Dr. Rowan Williams and included Boris Akunin , Viv Groskop , Catriona Kelly , and Douglas Smith . ^ The 2015 judges were Lord Browne of Madingley , Dmitry Bykov , Varya Gornostaeva, Bridget Kendall , and Catherine Merridale . ^ The 2016 judges were Geoffrey Hosking , Anne McElvoy , Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky , and Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill . ^ Stalin: New Biography of
760-934: The Russia-China Border' " . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ Sorokina, Yanina (2022-09-04). "Timothy Frye's 'Weak Strongman' Overturns the Putin Myth" . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ Berkhead, Samantha (2022-08-14). " 'Klimat': A Look at Russia's Looming Climate Reckoning" . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ "Maria Stepanova's 'In Memory of Memory' " . The Moscow Times . 2022-09-25 . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ Couch, Emily (2022-08-21). " 'Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow' " . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ Berdy, Michele A. (2022-07-31). "Lucy Ward Investigates 'The Empress and
798-957: The Russian Aristocracy Winner Anne Applebaum Iron Curtain Shortlist Masha Gessen The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin Shortlist Thane Gustafson Wheel of Fortune Shortlist Donald Raleigh Soviet Baby Boomers Shortlist Karl Schlögel Moscow 1937 Shortlist 2014 Catherine Merridale Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History Allen Lane Winner Vladimir Alexandrov The Black Russian Head of Zeus Shortlist Sheila Fitzpatrick A Spy in
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#1732791390788836-858: The Russian Leviathan" Wins 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize" . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2020-11-03 . ^ Times, The Moscow (2022-01-27). "Pushkin House Gets Ready for Its 10th Anniversary Book Prize" . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2022-02-01 . ^ "История расширения НАТО и русско-еврейская семейная хроника: в Лондоне выбрали лучшие книги о России" . BBC News Русская служба (in Russian) . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ "2022 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Mary Sarotte" . The Moscow Times . 2022-09-29 . Retrieved 2022-10-13 . ^ Couch, Emily (2022-07-17). " 'On The Edge: Life Along
874-1006: The Russian Revolution Princeton University Press Shortlist William Taubman Gorbachev: His Life and Times Simon & Schuster Shortlist 2019 Serhii Plokhy Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe Penguin Winner Taylor Downing 1983: The World at the Brink Little, Brown Book Group Shortlist Mark Galeotti The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia Yale University Press Shortlist Eleonory Gilburd To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture Harvard University Press Shortlist Ben Macintyre The Spy and
912-962: The Soviet Union Shortlist 2023 Owen Matthews Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine Winner Ryan Tucker Jones Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling Shortlist Jade McGlynn Russia’s War Shortlist Olga Petri Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg Shortlist Natasha Lance Rogoff Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia Shortlist Tricia Starks Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in
950-633: The Soviet Union Oneworld Publications Winner Peter Finn and Petra Couvée The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book Harvill Secker / Vintage Books Shortlist Jacek Hugo , trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Bader- Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterland Portobello Books Shortlist Catriona Kelly St Petersburg: Shadows of
988-636: The Traitor Viking Shortlist Katja Petrowskaja Maybe Esther: A Family Story 4th Estate Shortlist 2020 Sergei Medvedev The Return of the Russian Leviathan Winner Brian Boeck Stalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov Shortlist Kate Brown Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to
1026-968: The USSR NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Shortlist 2024 Elena Kostyuchenko I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko Winner Julie A. Cassiday Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism Shortlist Dan Healey The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps Shortlist Tom Parfitt High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland Shortlist Serhii Plokhy The Russo-Ukrainian War Shortlist Laur Vallikivi Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in
1064-455: The boundaries between fiction and non-fiction are continually blurred and argued upon, especially in the field of biography ; as Virginia Woolf said: "if we think of truth as something of granite-like solidity and of personality as something of rainbow-like intangibility and reflect that the aim of biography is to weld these two into one seamless whole, we shall admit that the problem is a stiff one and that we need not wonder if biographers, for
1102-439: The challenges of finding publishers willing to take the financial risk of publishing Polish and other "minor" languages compared to more mainstream languages, such as French or Spanish, and lauded the works of small, independent publishers, such as Open Letter Books , that take an interest in "commercially unviable" literature. Lloyd-Jones was announced as the translator in one of the two initial acquisitions of Linden Editions,
1140-721: The editor of the Polish-language magazine Brytania published by the Central Office of Information , she met author Paweł Huelle at an arts festival in Glasgow after the publication of his first novel in 1987, Weiser Dawidek . The English translation, Who Was David Weiser? , was published by Bloomsbury in 1991. Since 1991, she has published numerous works by Polish novelists, journalists, essayists, poets, and children's authors. She began translating from Polish full time in 2001. Lloyd-Jones has frequently discussed
1178-413: The help of a range of structures or formats such as: And so on. Common literary examples of non-fiction include expository , argumentative , functional, and opinion pieces ; essays on art or literature; biographies ; memoirs ; journalism ; and historical, scientific , technical , or economic writings (including electronic ones). Antonia Lloyd-Jones Antonia Lloyd-Jones (born 1962)
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1216-412: The information within the work. Simplicity, clarity, and directness are some of the most important considerations when producing non-fiction. Audience is important in any artistic or descriptive endeavour, but it is perhaps most important in non-fiction. In fiction, the writer believes that readers will make an effort to follow and interpret an indirectly or abstractly presented progression of theme, whereas
1254-406: The most part failed to solve it." Including information that the author knows to be untrue within such works is usually regarded as dishonest. Still, certain kinds of written works can legitimately be either fiction or non-fiction, such as journals of self-expression, letters , magazine articles, and other expressions of imagination. Though they are mostly either one or the other, a blend of both
1292-720: The past Yale University Press Shortlist Stephen Kotkin Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power,1878-1928 Penguin Press Shortlist Peter Pomerantsev Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia Faber and Faber Shortlist 2016 Dominic Lieven Towards the Flame: Empire, War and
1330-478: The phrase " literary non-fiction " to distinguish works with a more literary or intellectual bent, as opposed to the bulk of non-fiction subjects. Based on the author's intention or the purpose of the content, the main genres of non-fiction are instructional, explanatory, discussion-based, report-based (non-chronological), opinion-based (persuasive) and relating (chronological recounting) non-fiction. Non-fictional works of these different genres can be created with
1368-856: The prize" . ^ "Book Prize 2013" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2022-02-11 . ^ "Book Prize 2014" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2022-02-11 . ^ "Book Prize 2015" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2022-02-11 . ^ "Book Prize 2016" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2022-02-11 . ^ "Book Prize 2017" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2022-02-11 . ^ "Book Prize 2018" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2022-02-11 . ^ "Book Prize 2019" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2022-02-11 . ^ "Book Prize 2020" . Pushkin House . Retrieved 2022-02-11 . ^ Berdy, Michele A. (2020-10-30). "Sergei Medvedev's "The Return of
1406-415: The production of non-fiction has more to do with the direct provision of information. Understanding of the potential readers' use for the work and their existing knowledge of a subject are both fundamental for effective non-fiction. Despite the claim to truth of non-fiction, it is often necessary to persuade the reader to agree with the ideas and so a balanced, coherent, and informed argument is vital. However,
1444-806: Was named the year's best Russian book in translation. ^ The 2019 judging panel was chaired by Sergey Guriyev and included Rachel Campbell-Johnson , Alexander Drozdov, Alexis Peri , and Andrei Zorin. ^ The 2020 judges were Serhii Plokhy , Celestine Bohlen, Julia Safronova, and Richard Wright. ^ The 2021 judges were Fiona Hill , Declan Donnellan , Sergei Medvedev , George Robertson , and Maria Stepanova . ^ The 2022 judges were Evgenia Arbugaeva , Baroness Deborah Bull , Archie Brown (historian), Dmitry Glukhovsky , Ekaterina Schulmann . ^ The 2023 judges were Ekaterina Schulmann , Philip Bullock , Masha Gessen , Alexander Rodnyansky , and Mary Elise Sarotte . References [ edit ] ^ "About
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