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Pushkin House Book Prize 2019
The 2019 Pushkin House Book Prize went to Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy. 6 books made the shortlist.
Winner
- Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophesource (opens in a new tab)
Shortlist
- 1983: The World at the Brinksource (opens in a new tab)
- Maybe Esther: A Family Storysource (opens in a new tab)
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold Warsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafiasource (opens in a new tab)
- To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culturesource (opens in a new tab)
About the Pushkin House Book Prize
Pushkin House Book Prize (Pushkin House, London) for non-fiction in English about Russia, 2013-2025: winner plus the rest of the shortlist (level Shortlist); six books a year, ten in 2022 (10th anniversary). No longlist is published. Year is the prize year as the body labels it (shortlist in spring, winner in June, books from the prior year). One category, labelled Non-fiction. Winners and the expected counts cite the body's prize page for that year (pushkinhouse.org/projects/book-prize/<id>); those pages render from the site's GraphQL backend, which gives the winner's name and title and the shortlist only as cover images. The cover file names confirm each year's shortlisted titles and count; shortlisted authors and full titles come from Wikipedia's Pushkin House Russian Book Prize table (fallback), which shortlisted rows cite. Translators come from Wikipedia or the body's winner text; a few were added from the published editions (Schlogel, Petrowskaja, Stepanova, Kostyuchenko, Dobrenko) and are unverified against the body. The Maisky Diaries (2016) is credited to its editor Gabriel Gorodetsky, as the prize lists it.
Organization: Pushkin House. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Cundill History Prize 6 shared books
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 5 shared books