National Best declared the finalists

The small jury of the Russian Literary Prize "National Bestseller" selected six books of a short list of 2015.

The list is published on the National Besting website :

• Sergey Nosov - “Figure brackets” (19 points)
• Oleg Kashin-"Gorby-Dream" (6 points)
• Anna Matveeva - “Nine nineties” (6 points)
• Alexander Snegirev - "Vera" (6 points)
• Vasily Avchenko - "Crystal in a Transparent Rimming" (5 points)
• Tatyana Moskvina - "The Life of the Soviet Girl" (5 points)

“This year we have a record - 19 points from a large jury in National Bestu Nobody ever received. Well, the result is quite well -deserved - the “curly brackets” are really great luck Sergey Nosov, who is already rightly considered one of the largest prose writers of St. Petersburg, and all of Russia, ” commented the executive secretary of the Prize Organizing Committee Vadim Levental.

He also noted that Oleg Kashin got into the short list of National Best for the first time, "although several years ago he became a member of our small jury."

This year, the small jury of National Best is critic Artemy Troitsky (chairman), writer and poet Ksenia Buke, actress and TV presenter Alla Mikheeva, poet and musician Vadim Stepantsov, artist Vladimir Shinkarev, actor Efim Shifrin and surgeon Sergey Yashin.

On June 7, in the winter garden of the Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg, a small jury will be voted, which will determine the winner. It will receive a cash prize equivalent to $ 10 thousand, participants in the short-list will receive incentive prizes in the amount equivalent to $ 1000.

Also this year, the organizing committee established the prize “For personal courage in cultural space” in memory of criticism and translator, founder of “National Besseller” Viktor Toporov (1946–2013), writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . This time, the co -founder Konstantin Tublin chose the prize laureates. The premium fund of $ 10 thousand was divided by the editor -in -chief of the RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan, who, receiving a reward, noticed that “personal courage is not required to express the views of the majority,” and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who received a reward for his letters from the colony.