Awarded "Russian Bouquer"

The laureate of the 23rd season of the Russian Busher literary prize was the writer, essayist and journalist Vladimir Sharov. He was awarded for the novel “Return to Egypt” - a story in the letters of the family, connected by kinship with Gogol, whose members are trying to add “dead souls”.

“It seemed to me that the whole history of Russia after Nikolai Gogol was an attempt to sign the second volume of his famous novel. Indeed, in unfinished books there is a terrible thing - some revelation. It seems that if they would still be added, then we could understand what the meaning of life is. In my novel, I wrote about how Russian history and culture tried to finish this novel, ” the Russian newspaper quoted the laureate.

“The current authors are very different from the authors of the Soviet era for the better. Now people are written with liberated consciousness, ” TASS quoted the chairman of the jury Andrei Aryev. - Smallness is a sign of decadence. That is why literature is similar to adolescence, youth. ”

In addition to “Returning to Egypt”, the “Russian Boker ”’s short list included “ Peter Stepanovich’s biography ”Anatoly Vishnevsky,“ Key. Last Moscow ”by Natalia Gromova, the“ monastery ”of Zakhara Prilepin, the“ free will ”Viktor Remizov and the“ marble swan ”of Elena Skulskaya.

Since 1992, the Russian Bouquer has been awarded for the best novel in Russian, first published last year. The prize laureate receives 1.5 million rubles, finalists - 150 thousand rubles each.