The nominations differed every year, to complement the Russian Booker which is awarded for novels only.
[1] The mission of the Little Booker was to identify and encourage the most interesting and modern tendencies in Russia's literary life.
Nikolai Aleksandrov ("Ekho Moskvy" radio station) 2.
Natalia Perova ("Glas" magazine) Ilia Kukulin served as consultant.
1992 - Magazines Solo (Moscow) and Vestnik novoi literatury (Sankt-Peterburg) for the best magazine of literary debuts 1993 - Victor Pelevin (Sinii fonar) for the year's best book of short stories 1994 - Volga (Saratov) for the Russia's best provincial magazine 1995 - Rodnik (Riga) and Idiot (Vitebsk) for the best Russian-language literary magazine published in Russia's neighboring countries 1996 - Sergei Gandlevskii (Trepanatsiia cherepa) for the best first book in prose 1997 - Mikhail Gasparov (Izbrannye stat'i), Alexander Goldstein (Rasstavanie s Nartsissom) for a historical and philosophical study of Russian literature 1998 - Emma Gerstein (Memuary, later translated to English as Moscow Memoirs), Mikhail Bezrodnyi (Konets tsitaty) for a memoir and an autobiography dealing with Russia's literary scene 1999 - Vladimir Bibikhin (Novyi renessans) for an essay that contributed significantly to the development of the genre 2000 - "Iuriatin" Foundation (Perm) for a literary project 2001 - Viktor Golyshev (translation of Ian McEwan's Amsterdam) for translation of a novel