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The Enlightener Awards Group has announced its laureates: the best popular science books of the year 2024. The live awards ceremony took place in Berlin, at the Theater im Delphi. The jury board chose the best non-fiction books, both written in and translated into the Russian language, in two nominations: Natural and Exact Sciences and Humanities. They have also announced the winner of the special award, PolitProsvet, which since 2022 rewards books on pressing social and political topics.
The awards ceremony was streaming live from two cities at once, Moscow and Berlin. In Germany it was hosted by Irina Shikhman, journalist and anchor of the “A Talk?” YouTube channel, while in Russia it was led by journalist and TV presenter Tatiana Malkina. Both auditoriums could see and communicate with each other. The stream was live at the Enlightener’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@p.prosvetitel with live screenings also hosted by several partner bookstores: the Turgenev Library in Paris, Babel in Tel Aviv, and Liberty Books in Lisbon.
The Enlightener Award was established in 2008 by Dmitry Zimin and operates with support from the Zimin Foundation.
Maria Kondratova
The Crooked Mirror of Life. The Main Myths About Cancer and What Today’s Science Makes of Them
Ivan Kurilla
The Americans and All the Rest: The Origins and Meaning of the Foreign Policy of the USA
Anton Dolin*
The Bad Russians. The Birth of Putinism From Commercial Cinema
The Encyclopaedia of Dissidence: the USSR, 1956–1989 by various authors, edited by Alexander Daniel
Stuart Ritchie
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
Translated by Alena Yakimenko, edited by Ekaterina Vladimirskaya
Stephen Walker
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
Translated by Natalia Lisova, еdited by Igor Lisov, Vyacheslav Ionov
*considered foreign agents by the Russian Justice Ministry
Photo by Masha Kushnir
Published
November 21, 2024
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