SHORT LIST OF THE ''NOS'' LITERARY PRIZE 2013:

A shortlist of the “NOS” Literary Prize for 2013 was announced during an open literary debate at the Krasnoyarsk Book Fair VII on October 31, 2013. The short-list includes nine entries:


• Sergei Belyakov. Gumilev, Gumilev’s Son. AST, 2013
• Eugene Vodolazkin. Laurus . Non-historical novel. AST, 2012
• Alexander Grigorenko. Ilget . Three names of Fate. ArsisBooks. 2013
• Mikhail Elizarov. We went out to have smoke. It lasted 17 years. Astrel, 2012
• Andrey Ivanov. Harbin moths. Tallin: Avenarius, 2013
• Eduard Kochergin. Notes of a Stage Rat. Vita Nova, 2013
• Vladimir Martynov. The Book of Books. Art-transit, Classics-XXI, 2013
• Margaret Hamlin. Investigator. AST, 2012
• Constantine Charuhin. Schezher. New Cultural Space, 2013

Three of the finalists – Vodolazkin, Ivanov and Hamlin - have also been short-listed for the Russian Booker 2013.

The “NOS” Prize winner as well as the winner of the internet-poll will be announced at the end of January, 2014