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 Arkady and Boris Strugatsky International Science Fiction Literary Award (ABS-Prize) — international literary award, which is awarded annually by a special jury for the best works of literary fiction written in Russian and published in the previous year. For 2020, it was awarded 21 times.

Award Description

By wording Boris Strugatsky:

"The prize is awarded for the best science fiction work of the year, and fantastic means any work in which the author uses elements of the improbable, impossible, or unprecedented as an artistic plot-forming device. Thus, an extremely wide range of works is considered — from pure science fiction in the manner of G. J. Wells, S. P. Blavatsky, and others. Lem and R. Sheckley to grotesques and phantasmagoria in the style of F. Kafka, Moscow. Bulgakova, V. Makanin or modern fairy tales in the style of E. Schwartz or V. Shefner."

The prize was established by the St. Petersburg Center for Contemporary Literature and Books with the assistance of the city's literary community in 1998. The prize has been awarded annually since 1999 on June 21, that is, on a day equally distant from the birth dates of each of the Strugatsky brothers.

The award is presented in two categories:

For the best work of Fiction (novel, novella, short story)

For the best critical and nonfiction work about science fiction or on a fantastic topic (article, review, essay, book)

Until 2013:

The prize is awarded in three stages. At the first stage, the nomination committee offers Boris Strugatsky works-candidates in the nomination, published during the year. At the second stage, Boris Strugatsky selects several works in each category from the proposed list and offers a selection for secret voting to the members of the literary jury of the award. Boris Strugatsky also determines the winners based on the results of the jury's voting.

Since 2013: Both rounds of nominations are conducted by a jury.

Laureates

Fiction Category

1999 — Evgeny Lukin, " Zone of Justice "(novel)

2000 — Sergey Sinyakin, " Monk on the Edge of the Earth "(novella)

2001 — Vyacheslav Rybakov," At Someone Else's Feast "(novel)

2002 — Marina Dyachenko andSergey Dyachenko, "The Valley of Conscience" (novel)

2003 — Mikhail Uspensky, " White Horseradish in a hemp field "(novel)

2004-Dmitry Bykov, " Orthography "(novel)

2005 — Evgeny Lukin, " Portrait of a Magician in his Youth "(novel)

2006-Dmitry Bykov, "Tow Truck" (novel)

2007-Dmitry Bykov, "Railway" (novel)

2008 — Alexander Zhitinsky, "The Sovereign of the whole Network" (novel)

2009 — Evgeny Lukin, "We will be treated" (novella)

2010 — Mikhail Uspensky, "Paradise Machine" (novel)

2011 — Vyacheslav Rybakov, "Behold, I create" (novel)

2012 — Naum Nim, "Lord, do this..." (novel)

2013-Dmitry Bykov, "X"

2014 — Mikhail Uspensky,"Bogatyristika Kostya Zhikharev"(novel)

2015 — Mikhail Uspensky, "Alchymistics of Kostya Zhikharev"

2016 — Robert Ibatullin, "The Rose and the Worm"

2017 — Vyacheslav Rybakov, "On a shaggy Back"

2018 — Andrey Lazarchuk, Mikhail Uspensky, "All This Crying" (trilogy)

2019 — Alexander Etoev, "I will always be with you"

2020 — Evgeny Filenko, "Very Strange worlds"

2021 — Gennady Prashkevich, "The Last Quarantine"

Nomination "Criticism and Journalism"

1999 — Vsevolod Revich, " Crossroads of Utopias: the Fate of science fiction against the background of the fate of the country "(essay series) (posthumously)

2000 — Kir Bulychev, "How to Become a Science Fiction Writer" (essay)

2001 — Anatoly Britikov, " Russian Science Fiction Literature "(monograph) (posthumously)

2002 — Andrey Lazarchuk andPyotr Lelik, "Golem Wants to Live" (essay)

2003 — Gennady Prashkevich, "Small Baedeker in SF" (essay)

2004 — Kir Bulychev, "Stepdaughter of the Epoch" (series of essays) (posthumously)

2005 — Alan Kubatiev, " Wooden and Bronze Dante, or Nothing is Over "(essay)

2006-Svetlana Bondarenko,"Unknown Strugatskys", vol. 1-2 (commented edition of archival materials)

2007 — Anton Pervushin, " The Conquest of Mars. Martian Chronicles of the Great Confrontation Era"

2008 — Alexander Etoev, "Book Study" (encyclopedia)

2009 — Evgeny Voiskunsky, "An Island in the Ocean" (essay)

2010 — Nikolay Romanetsky, " Thirteen opinions on our path "(collection of interviews)

2011 — Gennady Prashkevich, "H. G. Wells" (biography)

2012 — Sergey Pereslegin, "Occam's Dangerous Razor"

2013-Svetlana Bondarenko, Viktor Kurilsky, " Strugatsky. Materials for the study: letters, work diaries. 1972-1977", " Strugatsky. Materials for the study: letters, work diaries. 1978—1984»[1]

2014-Svetlana Bondarenko, Viktor Kurilsky, " Strugatsky. Materials for the study: letters, work diaries. 1967—1971»[1]

2015-Svetlana Bondarenko, Viktor Kurilsky, " Strugatsky. Materials for the study: letters, work diaries. 1985—1991»

2016-Gennady Prashkevich, Vladimir Borisov, "Stanislav Lem"

2017 — Olga Eremina (author of the book "Correspondence of Ivan Antonovich Yefremov")

2018 — Maria Galina, "Hyperfiction"

2019-Vyacheslav Rybakov,"Carving according to the ideal"

2020-Maria Galina, "Hyperfiction"

2021 — Evgeny Kharitonov, "Apocrypha Through the Looking Glass"