Anna Kozlova won the 2017 National Bestseller award yesterday for her
novel F20, about a
teenager with schizophrenia. I wasn’t surprised that F20 won: Kozlova’s book collected the most points in the NatsBest’s
first round of voting. That’s not to say the ceremony wasn’t suspenseful… F20 was tied 2-2 with Aleksandr Brener’s
Жития убиенных художников
(Life Stories [as in lives, in the
context of “lives of saints”] of Killed
Artists), leaving jury chair Konstantin Ernst as the tie breaker. He cast his
vote for F20. Two other books received
votes: Elena Dolgopyat’s Родина
(Motherland) and Andrei Filimonov’s Головастик
и святые
(known in English as Manikin
and the Saints).
If you’d like to watch, the award
ceremony is archived on YouTube here.
For more: A Fontanka article by Elena Kuznetsova.
For more: A Fontanka article by Elena Kuznetsova.
Up
Next: The Big Book shortlist, which I’ll be
setting up to post tomorrow/Monday. The Yasnaya Polyana Award longlist.
Then more books… including futurism.
Disclaimers: NatsBest secretary Vadim Levental is the author of Masha Regina, which I translated.
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