@article{508e2386809848c3bc8a0d3f08de2057,
title = "Twenty years later: Russian literature and literary studies since 1991",
author = "Teresa Polowy",
note = "Funding Information: The natsional'naia premiia Bol'shaia Kniga was created relatively recently in 2006 and is financed by a combination of state and private funding organizations including the Centre for the Support of Russian Literature, the Federal Agency of Press and Mass Communication, the Russian Academy of Sciences{\textquoteright} Institute of Russian Literature, and the Russian Book Union. It is the literary prize that now carries the largest financial reward: in 2011, the value is $176,000 which is divided, in descending amounts, between the winners of the first, second, and third-place awards. The premiia Bol'shaia Kniga is open to prose of any genre as long as it is written in Russian. The first winner was writer and critic Dmitry Bykov for his study of Pasternak; in 2009, Leonid Iuzefovich{\textquoteright}s novel Cranes and Dwarfs took first prize; and in 2010, author and critic Pavel Basinsky won the first prize for Lev Tolstoi: begstvo iz raia [Leo Tolstoy: Escape from Paradise].",
year = "2011",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/00085006.2011.11092688",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "53",
pages = "527--544",
journal = "Canadian Slavonic Papers",
issn = "0008-5006",
publisher = "Canadian Association of Slavists",
number = "2-4",
}