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Anti-Booker
The Anti-Booker prize () was a Russian literary award that existed between 1995 and 2001. Established by newspaper ''Nezavisimaya Gazeta'' using money of Boris Berezovsky (businessman), Boris Berezovsky. Its name refers to British-sponsored Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, Russian Booker and differences are: * prize was to be one dollar more than the Russian Booker * not limited to novels, but has five nominations (also poetry, stageplays, literary critics and memoirs) * current year's works were awarded. Judging panel Judges included well-known journalists, editors, literary critics and artists: * Andrei Vasilevsky (editor), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Bogayev
Oleg Anatolyevich Bogayev (; also transliterated as Bogaev or Bogaiev; born 1970) is a Russian playwright based in Yekaterinburg. He has been described by ''Moscow Times'' theatre critic John Freedman as "one of the first and best-known students to graduate from Nikolay Kolyada, [Nikolai] Kolyada’s playwriting course at the Yekaterinburg State Theatre Institute." He is now on the faculty at the same school. Bogaev is also the editor of the ''Ural'' (') literary magazine, a post he took over from his mentor Nikolai Kolyada in August 2010. Biography Oleg Bogayev was born in 1970 in the city of Sverdlovsk (now called Yekaterinburg) in Russia. He writes of growing up as the Cold War gave way to the emergence of Perestroika, a "change from the decay of the empire to the birth of a new society." He cites the social turmoil of recent decades as useful for artistic product: "[What] I know is that Russia is just the right place for a playwright - with shattering of fates, conflicts, crum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |