Declared short list "National Best"

Six books are named, one of which will become a laureate of the 14th season of the Russian annual literary prize “National Bestseller”.

These works were chosen by a large jury of 53 books included in the long list of National Best.

“The large jury this year showed unprecedented fellow unanimity - a significant part of the list remained without votes at all, while almost all representatives of the Organizing Committee of the Prize voted for the finalists. - commented on the executive secretary of the award Vadim Levental. “It seems true to note that this is the strongest short list of National Best in recent years.”

Short list of the National Bestseller Prize:

• Sergey Shargunov - "1993";
• Pavel Krusanov - “King of the head”;
• Ksenia Buke - “Freedom” “Freedom” ”;
• Vladimir Sharov - “Return to Egypt”;
• Marat Basyrov - “printing machine”;
• Vladimir Sorokin - "telluria".

According to ITAR-TASS , in the new National Best-Horde nomination, intended for writers no over 35 years old, Ksenia Buke and Sergey Shargunov, as well as Valery Ayrapetyan (“Free fall”), Kirill Ryabov (“Burner of the Corpses”), Anna Starobinets (“Ikarova Zhelez”), are claimed for the prize.

The holders of the National Besseller Award will be called June 1 in St. Petersburg. The winner receives a monetary prize of 750 thousand rubles, the five other finalists - 60 thousand rubles each.