Alexander Ilichevsky has won the Russian Booker Prize-2007 with his novel Matisse. The laureate will be awarded with 20 thousand dollars, while the other five finalists will get two thousand dollars each.
Those five authors on the Russian Booker short list are Yuri Maletsky (Needlepoint), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Daniel Stein, Translator), Andrei Dmitriev (Bay of Joy), Igor Sakhnovski (The Man Who Knew Everything), and Alex Tarn (God Does Not Play Dice).
In 2006 the Russian Booker went to Olga Slavnikova, the author of the novel 2017.
The Russian Booker Prize was established in 1991 as the first non-governmental prize in Russia since 1917. Given annually for the best Russian language novel of the year, it has won the reputation of the countrys most prestigious literary award.
Site of the Russian Booker Prize: russianbooker.org
Source: lenta.ru
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