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PREVIOUS WINNERS AND NOMINEES

PREVIOUS WINNERS AND NOMINEES

Winners of 2019

(for the books of 2017-2018)

  • Bestseller category: the collection “A Butterfly’s Song” by Ermek Amanshayev
  • Best Author category: “Tales of Grandma Gulsifat” by Gulsifat Shakhidi
  • Best Translation category: “The world dissolves, like a dream”(Leila Aliyeva) translated by Caroline Walton 
  • Best Editing category: “Recycled” (Anna Komar) edited by John Farndon 
  • Breakthrough of the Year category: “Land Drenched in tears” by Soyungul Chanicheff and Rahima Makhmut
  • Best Book Book Series ECG 2018 category: “Cold Shadows” by Shahsanem Murray

Winners of 2022

(for the books of 2019-2022*)

  • Bestsellers category: “War will tell the further plan” by Alexander Kazarnovsky 
  • Best Travel Book category: “Silk Road: Revisited” by Nick Rowan
  • Best Children Book category: “The Egret and the Cow” by Gareth Stamp
  • Critics’ Choice category: “Colourful tears” by Khosiyat Rustam
  • Best Research Book category: “Competence-based modelling of professional foreign language education” by the Kazakh Ablai khan University of International Relations and World Languages, Prof. Salima Kunanbaeva
  • Best Academy Book category: “The Kazakh Model for a Research University” by Tlektes Espolov
  • Best Biography category: “A history of lithuanian writers in the United Kingdom” by Aldona Grupas
  • Best Poetic Book category : “Maestro and Muse” by Sergey Bely
  • Best Love Story category: “Взлететь над жизнью” by Alexandra Lacarre
  • Best Book in Native Language category: “Сундук безумного кукольника” by Nina Yagolnitser

*Ceremony 2021 was cancelled due to the pandemic

Winners of 2024

(for the books of 2023-2024)

  • Bestseller category:
    • Prize: “Voina Plan Pokazhet” by Alexander Kazarnovsky 
    • Gold Certificate of Recognition: ‘Elish & the Wicker Tale’ by Timur Akhmedjanov
  • Critics’ Choice category:
    • ‘Zinziver’ by Viktor Slipenchuk

    • Gold Certificate of Recognition: ‘Is it Necessary to Worship at Notre Dame?’ by Alikhan Zhaksylyk

  • Best Adaptation for Children category: ‘Adventures Of The Spirit Of Times’ book series by Gulchekhra-begim Makhmudova
  • Best Love Story category: ‘Labyrinths of Loneliness’ by Gulsifat Shakhidi
  • Best Epic category: ‘Narqyz’ by Nurpeis Baiganin
  • Best Female Author category: ‘Wise Tales for Children and Adults’ by Marina Alyassova

Winners of 2026

(for the books of 2025-2026)

Submission open

All Books Nominated

2019

  • ‘Short Stories from Azerbaijan’ translated by Anne Thompson
  • ‘A Butterfly’s Song’ by Ermek Amanshayev
  • ‘Tales of Grandma Gulsifat’ by Gulsifat Shakhidi
  • ‘The world dissolves, like a dream’ by Leila Aliyeva, translated by Caroline Walton 
  • ‘Recycled’ by Anna Komar, edited by John Farndon 
  • ‘Land Drenched in tears’ by Soyungul Chanicheff and Rahima Makhmut
  • ‘Cold Shadows’ by Shahsanem Murray
  • ‘A feast in place of war’ by Nadezhda Kolyshkina, translated by George Butchard
  • ‘Nurse, Give Me a Pill for Death’ by Aldona Grupas
  • ‘Elish and the Wicker Tales’ by Kamran Salaev, translated by Stephen M. Bland
  • ‘Wind: Short Stories 2017’ edited by David Parry
  • Why are we so similar?’ by Larisa Prodan

2022

  • ‘War will tell the further plan’ by Alexander Kazarnovsky 
  • ‘Silk Road: Revisited’ by Nick Rowan
  • ‘The Egret and the Cow’ by Gareth Stamp
  • ‘Colourful tears’ by Khosiyat Rustam
  • ‘Competence-based modelling of professional foreign language education’ by the Kazakh Ablai khan University of International Relations and World Languages, Prof. Salima Kunanbaeva
  • ‘The Kazakh Model for a Research University’ by Tlektes Espolov
  • ‘A history of lithuanian writers in the United Kingdom’ by Aldona Grupas
  • ‘Maestro and Muse’ by Sergey Bely
  • ‘Взлететь над жизнью’ by Alexandra Lacarre
  • ‘Сундук безумного кукольника’ by Nina Yagolnitser
  • ‘Queen Kurmanjan of the Mountains’ by Bubaisha Arstynbekova
  • ‘Meet the ‘STANS’ by Christopher Jones
  • ‘The Final’ by Daniel Akhmed
  • ‘Turmoil’ by Dulat Isabekov
  • ‘Hunting Dogs’ by Farkhat Tamendarov
  • ‘Поэзия в живописи’ by Marina Vernalis
  • ‘The Yarn named Sun’ by Michael Kunitskiy
  • ‘Leah and Aya the Sewing Doll’ by Nargisa Karasartova
  • ‘Girl dancing in the Sky’ by Sagyn Berkinalieva
  • ‘I think we should just live’ by Ekaterina Khlebnikova
  • ‘The guardsmen of Hippocrates’ by Vladimir Tulinov
  • Тегеран-1360′ by Zhanna Golubitskaya

2024

  • ‘Elish & the Wicker Tale’ by Timur Akhmedjanov

  • ‘Война план покажет’ by Alexander Kazarnovsky

  • ‘Zinziver’ by Victor Slipenchuk

  • ‘Is it Necessary to Worship at Notre Dame?’ by Alikhan Zhaksylyk

  • ‘Adventures Of The Spirit Of Times’ book series by Gulchekhra-begim Makhmudova

  • ‘Wise Tales for Children and Adults’ by Marina Alyassova

  • ‘Labyrinths of Loneliness’ by Gulsifat Shakhidi

  • ‘And a Butterfly Soared’ by Lusine Aleksanyan

  • ‘24 Знака Зодиака’ by Nurlan Toxanov

  • ‘Layers Of The Heart’ by Ganjina Shamsullo

  • ‘С улыбкой по всему миру / Across the Globe with a Smile’ by Marsel Salimov

  • ‘One Song Will Be Enough’ by Lenar Shaekh

  • ‘Moon in the Eighth House’ by Elena Soboleva

  • ‘Славный Керкашка’ by Bubuira Bektenova

  • ‘Narqyz’ by Nurpeis Baiganin

  • ‘Flask of Crystal Hookah’ book series by Gulchekhra-begim Makhmudova