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Big Book Awards Name Eduard Verkin and Zoya Boguslavskaya 2025 Laureates

The prize’s 20th season shifted to two core awards with a new audiobook category.

Overview

  • Verkin won the Fiction award for “Сорока на виселице” and Boguslavskaya took Nonfiction for “Халатная жизнь” at a ceremony in Moscow’s Pashkov House.
  • Each top winner received 3 million rubles.
  • Best Audiobook went to Yana Vagner’s “Тоннель” (VIMBO), narrated by Viktoria Isakova, Kirill Radtsig and Vagner.
  • The public vote recognized Vera Bogdanova for “Семь способов засолки душ” and Elena Levkievskaya for “Белорусские мифы…”.
  • A special prize for contribution to literature honored Serbian translator Radmila Mechanin.