Enlightener Prize

Books

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Winners

2021

«River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life»
Richard Dawkins / Translated from English by A. Gopko; Editor A. Yakimenko

«The Making of the Atomic Bomb»
Richard Rhodes / Translated from English by D. Prokofiev; Executive Editor N. Galaktionova, Scientific Editor M. Kapustin, Editor S. Levenzon

Short-list

2021

Humanities

«The Making of the Atomic Bomb»
Richard Rhodes / Translated from English by D. Prokofiev; Executive Editor N. Galaktionova, Scientific Editor M. Kapustin, Editor S. Levenzon

«Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science»
Karl Sigmund / Translated from English: A. Brodotskaya; Editor A. Lavrenova

«The Arabs: A History. XVI-XXI centuries»
Eugene Rogan / Translated from English by I. Evstigneeva; Editor N. Nartsissova, Scientific Editor I. Tsaregorodtseva

«The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art »
Ingrid Rowland, Noah Charney / Translated from English by A. Landikhov; Scientific Editor M. Menshikova, Executive Editor O. Kiseleva, Literary Editor O. Nesterova

Natural and Exact Sciences

«River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life»
Richard Dawkins / Translated from English by A. Gopko; Editor A. Yakimenko

«Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality»
Ben Orlin / Translated from English by A. Ognev; Editor V. Kopylova, Scientific Editor M. Gelfand

«Chemistry forever. Of Pea-Soup, Dangers of Coffee in the Morning, and the Test of Mr Marsh»
Lars Öhrström / Translated from English by O. Postnikova; Scientific Editor I. Sorokin, Executive Editor E. Cherezova

«She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity»
Carl Zimmer / Translated from English by M. Bogotskaya, P. Kuptsov; Editor A. Rostotskaya, Scientific Editor Y. Shurupova

Long-list

2021

«River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life»
Richard Dawkins / Translated from English by A. Gopko; Editor A. Yakimenko

«The Making of the Atomic Bomb»
Richard Rhodes / Translated from English by D. Prokofiev; Executive Editor N. Galaktionova, Scientific Editor M. Kapustin, Editor S. Levenzon

«Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything»
David Bellos

«Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach»
John Eliot Gardiner

«Bullshit Jobs: A Theory»
David Graeber

«Weirdest Maths: At the Frontiers of Reason»
David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee

«Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science»
Karl Sigmund / Translated from English: A. Brodotskaya; Editor A. Lavrenova

«I am the Tsar. History of imposture in Russia»
Claudio Ingerflom

«Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men»
Caroline Criado Perez

«Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World»
Leonard Mlodinow

«Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality»
Ben Orlin / Translated from English by A. Ognev; Editor V. Kopylova, Scientific Editor M. Gelfand

«Chemistry forever. Of Pea-Soup, Dangers of Coffee in the Morning, and the Test of Mr Marsh»
Lars Öhrström / Translated from English by O. Postnikova; Scientific Editor I. Sorokin, Executive Editor E. Cherezova

«The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined»
Steven Pinker

«The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies »
Guillaume Pitron

«The Arabs: A History. XVI-XXI centuries»
Eugene Rogan / Translated from English by I. Evstigneeva; Editor N. Nartsissova, Scientific Editor I. Tsaregorodtseva

«The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art »
Ingrid Rowland, Noah Charney / Translated from English by A. Landikhov; Scientific Editor M. Menshikova, Executive Editor O. Kiseleva, Literary Editor O. Nesterova

«Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World»
Laura Spinney

«The Concise History of Theatre»
Phyllis Hartnoll

«Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe»
Ian Stewart

«She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity»
Carl Zimmer / Translated from English by M. Bogotskaya, P. Kuptsov; Editor A. Rostotskaya, Scientific Editor Y. Shurupova

«Chinese Culture Essentials»
Shen Zhenhui