The six books vie for the 2019 prize
In Moscow on Thursday, the short list for the 2019 Pushkin House Book Prize was announced. This year they are:
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“1983: The World at The Brink” by Taylor Downing (Little, Brown)
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“The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia” by Mark Galeotti (Yale University Press)
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“To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture” by Eleonory Gilburd (Belknap Press at Harvard University Press)
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“The Spy and the Traitor” by Ben Macintyre (Viking)
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“Maybe Esther” by Katja Petrowskaja, translated from German by Shelley Frisch (4th Estate)
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“Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy” by Serhii Plokhy (Allen Lane)
The jury members will spend the six weeks reading and considering (рассматривать) the finalists before announcing the winner at a dinner held at the Charterhouse in London on June 12. The author of the winning book will receive a prize of £5,000.
