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Join us for the unveiling of the winner of the 2021 Pushkin House Book Prize, in the company of the 2021 shortlisted authors and judges
Six highly readable and important new works offering fresh insights into Russian history, politics, current affairs, literature and architecture are under consideration for the £10,000 annual prize.
The prize is designed to showcase, reward and encourage original, insightful and well written books published in English about the Russian-speaking world and to encourage public understanding and intelligent debate around the country and its culture.
The 2021 shortlisted titles are:
Catherine Belton, Putin’s People
Archie Brown, The Human Factor
Evgeny Dobrenko, Late Stalinism
Jonathan Schneer, The Lockhart Plot
Andrei Zorin, Leo Tolstoy
Katherine Zubovich, Moscow Monumental
The panel of judges for the 2021 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize is chaired by Fiona Hill, Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, former deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council and author of the forthcoming book There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century.
Its other members are Declan Donnellan, joint founder and artistic director of the theatre company Cheek by Jowl, which established a company of Russian actors in 1999; Sergei Medvedev, writer, journalist and professor at Moscow Free University and author of The Return of the Russian Leviathan, winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize; George Robertson, Labour life peer, adviser to BP and former Secretary General of NATO and UK Defence Secretary; and Maria Stepanova, poet, essayist, journalist and author of In Memory of Memory, shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.