Read Russia Journal

2018 Read Russia Prize

The READ RUSSIA PRIZE jury has selected the shortlist for the 2018 READ RUSSIA PRIZE. Submissions for the 2018 prize honored extraordinary Russian authors and Russian-to-English translators and came in from more than 30 publishers around the English-speaking world.

The winner/s will be announced and presented with the READ RUSSIA PRIZE at the London Book Fair on Thursday, April 12, 2018.

Gennady Gor et al.
Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
Translated by Anand Dibble et al.
Ugly Duckling Presse (2016)

Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich)
Rapture
Translated by Thomas J. Kitson
Columbia University Press (2017)

Mariam Petrosyan
The Gray House
Translated by Yuri Machkasov
Amazon Crossing (2017)

Teffi (Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya)
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler et al.
New York Review Books / Pushkin Press (2016)

Various
Russian Émigré Short Stories
Translated by Bryan Karetnyk et al.
Penguin (2017)