Writers Sasha Filipenko, Pyotr Aleshkovsky, Sergei Soloukh, Maria Galina, Leonid Yuzefovich, Anna Matveyeva, Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Yevgeny Vodolazkin, left to right, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988885
Writers Yevgeny Vodolazkin, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Igor Zolotovitsky, actor and Rector of the Moscow Academic Theater Drama School, and writer Leonid Yuzefovich, left to right, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988880
Writer Leonid Yuzefovich wins first prize for his novel Winter Road at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988875
Dmitry Bak, Director of the State Literature Museum, left, and Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988873
Writer Yevgeny Vodolazkin, front, wins second prize for his novel Aviator, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony. Back from left: Dmitry Bak, Director of the State Literature Museum, and Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky.06.12.2016#2988870
Writer Yevgeny Vodolazkin wins second prize for his novel Aviator, Dmitry Bak, Director of the State Literature Museum, and Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, left to right, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988865
Dmitry Bak, Director of the State Literature Museum, left, and Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988864
Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya wins third prize for her book Yakov's Stairs at the Big Book national book awards ceremony. Center: Pyotr Aven, ABH Holdings (Alfa Group) Board Chairman.06.12.2016#2988861
Pyotr Aven, ABH Holdings (Alfa Group) Board Chairman, left, and Igor Zolotovitsky, actor and Rector of the Moscow Academic Theater Drama School, right, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988859
Boris Kupriyanov, publisher and member of the Non/Fiction book fair expert council, wins an award for contribution to literature at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988853
Boris Kupriyanov, publisher and member of the Non/Fiction book fair expert council, left, winner of an award for contribution to literature, and Presidential Advisor for Culure Vladimir Tolstoi at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988851
Igor Zolotovitsky, actor and Rector of the Moscow Academic Theater Drama School, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988850
Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya wins third prize for her book Yakov's Stairs at the Big Book national book awards ceremony. Right: Alexei Varlamov, writer, Doctor of Philology, researcher of the Russian 20th literature.06.12.2016#2988848
Writer Maria Galina wins readers' choice award at the Big Book national book awards ceremony. Right: Alexei Varlamov, writer, Doctor of Philology, researcher of the Russian 20th literature.06.12.2016#2988847
Pyotr Aven, ABH Holdings (Alfa Group) Board Chairman, left, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988839
Pyotr Aven, ABH Holdings (Alfa Group) Board Chairman, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988838
Writers Sergei Soloukh, Sasha Filipenko and Pyotr Aleshkovsky, left to right, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988834
Writers Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Sergei Soloukh at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988832
Writers Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Leonid Yuzefovich at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988831
Candidates for the Big Book national book awards at the awards ceremony, from left: Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Sergei Soloukh, Sasha Filipenko, Maria Galina, Pyotr Aleshkovsky, Leonid Yuzefovich, Anna Matveyeva, Alexei Ivanov and Yevgeny Vodolazkin.06.12.2016#2988829
Writers Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Sergei Soloukh at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988825
Writers Sergei Soloukh, Sasha Filipenko and Maria Galina, left to right, at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988817
Writers Sergei Soloukh, left, and Sasha Filipenko at the Big Book national book awards ceremony.06.12.2016#2988813
