Novel about victim to Chechen deportation put on long list of "Russian Booker"

The book "Inshallah. The Chechen Diary" by Anna Tugareva and the novel "The Secret Year" by Georgian writer Mikhail Gigolashvili are included in the long list of the "Russian Booker", the oldest independent literary award.

In 2015, the novel "Bride and Groom" by Alisa Ganieva about contemporary Dagestan entered the short list of the finalists pronounced by the "Russian Booker".

In 2017, the long list of the "Russian Booker" Prize was announced at a press conference held in Moscow on September 7, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The book "Inshallah. The Chechen Diary "by Anna Tugareva tells "about the tragedy of the exiled people by the example of the wolf's fate of a single person."

"I am glad that the Caucasian theme is raised, and it's an acute and urgent topic. It's a very special region in which many languages, cultures, and traditions are mixed. We are short of respect for the Caucasus, and we are obsessed with ourselves. Only respect for each other's traditions can unite the people," said poet and prose writer Pyotr Aleshkovsky, the chairman of the jury for the "Russian Booker-2017".

The name of the winner will be pronounced on December 5.

The "Russian Booker" Prize was founded in 1991 as the first non-state award in Russia after 1917. It is awarded for the best novel in Russian since 1992.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.