Enlightener Prize

Books

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Winners

2022

«Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future»
Doug Macdougall / Translated from English by Evgeny Ponikarov; Scientific Editor Pavel Pletshov, Literary Editor Sergey Sidorov, Executive Editor Irina Borisova

«The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin»
Douglas Smith / Translated from English by Evgeniya Fomenko; Editor Maria Nesterenko

Short-list

2022

Humanities

«The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin»
Douglas Smith / Translated from English by Evgeniya Fomenko; Editor Maria Nesterenko

«Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China»
Jung Chang Translated from English by Ulyana Saptsina; Literary Editor Victoria Priseko, Executive Editor Irina Ksendzova

«Breaking the Maya Code: How the Scholars Deciphered Writing of an Ancient Civilization»
Michael Coe / Translated from English by Dmitry Belyaev; Scientific Editor Dmitry Belyaev, Literary Editor Galina Belyaeva, Executive Editor Irina Borisova

«Orientalism»
Edward Said / Translated from English by Katarina Lopatkina; Scientific Editor Anton Ichsanov, Originating Editor Ekaterina Suverina

Natural and Exact Sciences

«Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive»
Carl Zimmer Translated from English by Maria Elifyorova; Scientific Editor Elena Naimark, Editor Anastasia Rostotskaya

«A Brief History of Digitalisation»
Martin Burckhardt / Translated from German by Nikolai Andreev

«Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth»
Chris Stringer / Translated from English by Elena Naimark; Editors Alexander Turov & Ekaterina Vladimirskaya

«Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future»
Doug Macdougall / Translated from English by Evgeny Ponikarov; Scientific Editor Pavel Pletshov, Literary Editor Sergey Sidorov, Executive Editor Irina Borisova

Long-list

2022

«Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive»
Carl Zimmer Translated from English by Maria Elifyorova; Scientific Editor Elena Naimark, Editor Anastasia Rostotskaya

«Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War»
Susan Lindee. Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War / Translated from English by Natalia Kolpakova; Scientific Editor Alexander Golts, Editor Vyacheslav Ionov

«A Brief History of Digitalisation»
Martin Burckhardt / Translated from German by Nikolai Andreev

«Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth»
Chris Stringer / Translated from English by Elena Naimark; Editors Alexander Turov & Ekaterina Vladimirskaya

«Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future»
Doug Macdougall / Translated from English by Evgeny Ponikarov; Scientific Editor Pavel Pletshov, Literary Editor Sergey Sidorov, Executive Editor Irina Borisova

«The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin»
Douglas Smith / Translated from English by Evgeniya Fomenko; Editor Maria Nesterenko

«Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China»
Jung Chang Translated from English by Ulyana Saptsina; Literary Editor Victoria Priseko, Executive Editor Irina Ksendzova

«Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World»
Carl Bergstrom, Jevin West / Translated from English by Elizaveta Ponomareva; Scientific Editor Nadezhda Chebotkova, Literary Editor Olga Dergacheva, Executive Editor Yulia Konstantinova

«The Invisible Universe. Dark Secrets of Space»
Jostein Riiser Kristiansen / Translated from Norwegian by Evgeniya Ivanova; Scientific Editor Vladimir Surdin, Editor Anastasia Naumova, Originating Editor Boris Gelasimov

«Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe»
Paul Sen / Translated from English by Zaur Mamedyarov; Scientific Editor Natalia Vdovichenko, Editor Eugenia Fomenko

«Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste»
Nolan Gasser / Translated from English by Alexei Mikheev & Kira Mikheeva; Editor Alena Shchekotikhina, Executive Editor Daria Rybina

«Breaking the Maya Code: How the Scholars Deciphered Writing of an Ancient Civilization»
Michael Coe / Translated from English by Dmitry Belyaev; Scientific Editor Dmitry Belyaev, Literary Editor Galina Belyaeva, Executive Editor Irina Borisova

«The Temptations of Unfreedom. Intellectuals During Critical Periods»
Ralf Dahrendorf / Translated from German by Mark Greenberg; Editor Sergey Kokurin

«European dream. The Reinvention of the Nation»
Aleida Assmann / Translated from German by Boris Khlebnikov; Editor Sergey Kokurin

«Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent»
Dan Healey / Translated from English by Tatiana Klepikova; Scientific Editor Tatiana Klepikova; Originating Editor Ekaterina Suverina

«Orientalism»
Edward Said / Translated from English by Katarina Lopatkina; Scientific Editor Anton Ichsanov, Originating Editor Ekaterina Suverina