Dec 02, 2011
Alexander Chudakov won the Russian Booker of the Decade with A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps, a novel that was short-listed for the 2001 Russian Booker Prize. Chudakov was known for writing more than 200 articles on classical Russian authors of the 19th century and the history of Russian philology. A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps—also known as Haze Sets Upon the Old Steps—was his only novel, and was published in 2000. Set in a fictional town populated by political exiles in Northern Kazakhstan, it describes life under Stalinist Russia and celebrates the human spirit under difficult circumstances. At the award ceremony held at Moscow’s Golden Ring Hotel, his widow, Marietta Chudakova—a literary historian and social critic—accepted both the award and prize money of 600,000 rubles (about $20,000).
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