The finish line of the "National Bestseller" Automatic translate

MOSCOW. The jury included seven books on the short list of the National Bestseller.

The seventeenth season of "National Best" went to the finish line. On June 3, the name of the new winner of the literary prize will be announced at the Alexandrinsky Theater of the Northern Capital. There are 7 authors on the short list, who pressured Pelevin with the family saga Lamp of Methuselah, Prilepin with the Chronicle of the Going War, Lipskerov with the novel About Him and the Butterflies, Ivanova with the peplum novel Tobol on the way to the “pedestal”.

One and a half months before the final verdict is passed, the writer Anna Kozlova is called one of the most likely candidates for victory. She is known to the general public as the author of the scripts for the First Channel series: the extreme “Short Course of a Happy Family Life” by Valeria Gai Germanika, the “Divorce” by Vera Storozheva and her piercing full-length film “9 Days and One Morning”. Kozlova’s previous book - sincere and merciless to the heroes “Everything that you wanted but were afraid to set on fire” - was published six years ago. The diagnosis of schizophrenia dooms the heroes of the novel F20 to unsuccessful attempts to integrate into the surrounding reality. They are assigned the role of peculiar outcasts without hope for distinct prospects and worthy help. Surviving, the heroes rely only on themselves.

“The Lives of the Murdered Artists” by writer and action activist Alexander Brener is a mosaic of “recollections” of talented people. Held and not very, lovers of shocking and reclusive, talented but misunderstood artists and writers, geniuses and charlatans. "Homeland" of Elena Dolgopyat is also one of the favorites of the current "National Best".

A collection of subtle, philosophical, nostalgia-tinged stories "Homeland" is a pleasant acquaintance for many with a talented author who has long been waiting for well-deserved recognition. The short list includes Andrei Rubanov’s novel “Patriot” about a forty-year-old banker in crisis, as well as the book “This Country” by Ekaterina Chebotareva, who chose the unusual pseudonym Figl-Migl. Andrei Filimonov’s “Tadpole and Saints” is a story about the knowledge of the soul, the timelessness and the dreamy life of the inhabitants of the village with the saying name “Roadless”. The book “Shadow of Mazepa: The Ukrainian nation in the era of Gogol” by Sergei Belyakov is an attempt to study the history of the people through the prism of the personality of Ivan Mazepa. ”

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru