Enlightener Prize

Books

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Winners

2020

«The Time of Banquets: The Politics and Symbols of a Generation»
Vincent Robert (Translated by Vera Milchina. Editors Natalia Saikina, Lev Oborin (Book Series Editor)

«Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst»
Robert Sapolsky (Translated by Yulia Abolina, Elena Naimark. Scientific Editor Daniil Markov, Editor Anastasia Rostotskaya)

Short-list

2020

Humanities

«The Time of Banquets: The Politics and Symbols of a Generation»
Vincent Robert (Translated by Vera Milchina. Editors Natalia Saikina, Lev Oborin (Book Series Editor)

«Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism»
Neal Ascherson (Translated by Varvara Babitskaya; Editor Gleb Morev)

«Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There»
Rutger Bregman (Translated by Andrey Zuev. Editor Lyubov Ryklina)

«Postures: Body Language in Art»
Desmond Morris (Translated by Ekaterina Kurova. Editor Philip Kondratenko)

«Medieval Europe: From the Breakup of the Western Roman Empire to the Reformation»
Chris Wickham (Translated by Maria Desyatova; Research Editor Stanislav Mereminsky; Editor Natalia Nartsissova)

Natural and Exact Sciences

«Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst»
Robert Sapolsky (Translated by Yulia Abolina, Elena Naimark. Scientific Editor Daniil Markov, Editor Anastasia Rostotskaya)

«Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story»
Lee Berger, John Hawkes (Translated by Arseny Chyorny. Editor-in-Chief: Renat Shagabutdinov; Editor-in-Chief: Tatiana Rapoport; Literary Editor Sergey Zakharov; Scientific Editor Stanislav Drobyshevsky).

«The Little Book of Black Holes: Science Essentials»
Steven Gubser, Frans Pretorius (Translated by K. Maslennikov; Editors V. Surdin, L. Egorova)

«Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology»
John North (Translated by K. V. Ivanov; Editors V. G. Surdin & M. Yu. Shevchenko)

«Factfulness»
Hans Rosling (Translated by Zaur Mamedyarov; Editor Tatiana Trofimova)

Long-list

2020

«The Time of Banquets: The Politics and Symbols of a Generation»
Vincent Robert (Translated by Vera Milchina. Editors Natalia Saikina, Lev Oborin (Book Series Editor)

«Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism»
Neal Ascherson (Translated by Varvara Babitskaya; Editor Gleb Morev)

«Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There»
Rutger Bregman (Translated by Andrey Zuev. Editor Lyubov Ryklina)

«Postures: Body Language in Art»
Desmond Morris (Translated by Ekaterina Kurova. Editor Philip Kondratenko)

«Medieval Europe: From the Breakup of the Western Roman Empire to the Reformation»
Chris Wickham (Translated by Maria Desyatova; Research Editor Stanislav Mereminsky; Editor Natalia Nartsissova)

«Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst»
Robert Sapolsky (Translated by Yulia Abolina, Elena Naimark. Scientific Editor Daniil Markov, Editor Anastasia Rostotskaya)

«Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story»
Lee Berger, John Hawkes (Translated by Arseny Chyorny. Editor-in-Chief: Renat Shagabutdinov; Editor-in-Chief: Tatiana Rapoport; Literary Editor Sergey Zakharov; Scientific Editor Stanislav Drobyshevsky).

«The Little Book of Black Holes: Science Essentials»
Steven Gubser, Frans Pretorius (Translated by K. Maslennikov; Editors V. Surdin, L. Egorova)

«Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology»
John North (Translated by K. V. Ivanov; Editors V. G. Surdin & M. Yu. Shevchenko)

«Factfulness»
Hans Rosling (Translated by Zaur Mamedyarov; Editor Tatiana Trofimova)