Anti-Booker prize

Judges included well-known journalists, editors, literary critics and artists: • Andrei Vasilevsky, editor-in-chief of Novy Mir; • Natalya Ivanova, assistant of editor-in-chief of Znamya; • Andrei Volos, writer awarded at Anti-booker 98; • Victor Toporov, literary critics and translator; • Yevgeniy Rein, poet; • Natalya Trauberg, translator; • Alexander Guelman, author of many Soviet stageplays; • Irina Kupchenko, People's Artist of the USSR; • Oleg Tabakov, People's Artist of the USSR et al.

• 1995 – Aleksei Varlamov, Nativity (Рождение) (novel) • 1996 – Dmitri Bakin (pseudónim), Country of origin (Страна происхождения) (novel) • – Sergey Gandlevsky, Holiday (Праздник) (poetry) • – Ivan Saveliev, Voyage at the edge (Путешествие на краю) (piece) • 1997 – Dmitri Galkovsky, Infinite Dead-end (Бесконечный тупик) (novel) – Dmitri Galkovski declined the prize • – Timur Kibirov, Paráfrasis (Парафразис) (poetry) • – Oleg Bogayev, Russian popular post (Русская народная почта) (stageplay) • – Aleksandr Goldstein, Farewell to Narciss (Прощание с нарциссом) (literary critics) • 1998 – Andrei Volos, Hurramabad (Хуррамабад) (novel) • – Maksim Amelin, cycle of poetry Follow Sumarokov with olive of victory (За Сумароковым с победною оливой) (poetry) • – Maksim Kurochkin, Ironwill (Стальова воля) (stageplay) • – Oleg Davydov, Demon of Solzhenitsyn (Демон Солженицына) (literary critics) • – Emma Gerstein, Moscow Memoirs (Мемуары) • – Marina Tarkovski, Shards of mirror (Осколки зеркала) (Memoirs) • 1999 – no prose was awarded • – no poetry was awarded; prize was kept and later awarded Boris Ryzhy, From Sverdlovsk with love • – Evgeni Grishkovets, Notes of Russian voyager and Winter (Записки русского путешественника, Зима) (stageplays) • – Pavel Basinski, (literary critics) • – Aleksandr Ivanchenko, Bathing of red horse (poem without heroes), (Купание Красного коня (поэма без героев)) • 2000 – Boris Akunin Coronation, or the Last of the Romanovs (Коронация, или Последний из РОМАНОВ) (novel) • – Bajyt Kenzheiev, Girl from the morning dream (Снящаяся под утро) (poetry) • – Vasili Sigarev, Plasticine (Пластилин) (stageplay) • – Evgeni Yermolin, (literary critics) • – Aleksei Filippov, Diary of desperation and hope (Дневник отчаяния и надежды)