“Russian Booker” was awarded to Alexander Snegirev

The winner of the Russian Booker Literary Prize for 2015 was Alexander Snegirev with his novel Vera.

The shortlist of contenders for the award also included: Alisa Ganieva with the novel "The Bride and Groom", Vladimir Danikhnov ("Lullaby"), Yuri Pokrovsky ("Among the People"), Roman Senchin ("Flooding Zone") and Guzel Yakhina (" Zuleikha opens her eyes.

The winner of the award received 1.5 million rubles, all finalists received 150 thousand rubles each.

In 2015, the jury of the award included the critic Valeria Pustovaya, the critic and poet Alexei Mashevsky, the prose writer Denis Gutsko, and the linguist Maxim Krongauz. The chairman of the jury was the writer Andrey Volos.

• The Russian Booker Prize was first presented in 1992. In 2014, the award went to historian and essayist Vladimir Sharov for his novel Return to Egypt.