''Laurus'' is a 2012 Russian novel by

Eugene Vodolazkin Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin (Евгений Германович Водолазкин) is a Russian-Ukrainian scholar and author. Born in Kiev in 1964, he graduated from the Philological Department of Kiev University in 1986. In the same year, ...

set in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It won the

Big Book Award Big Book (russian: Большая Книга, Bolshaya Kniga) is a Russian literary award for best prose in Russian. The award is financed by the founders of the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature, Russian major businessmen and busi ...

and the Yasnaya Polyana Book Award. According to Neil Griffiths's list for ''

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'', it is one of ten best world novels about God. It was translated into English in 2015 by Lisa C. Hayden.

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2012 Russian novels Novels set in the 15th century Novels set in the 16th century {{2010s-novel-stub