Pushkin House Book Prize to Elena Kostyuchenko
The winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2024 is Elena Kostyuchenko, Russia's best-known investigative journalist, awarded for “I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country” (2023). Einaudi published the book in the same year in Italy under the title “La mia Russia” (edited by Claudia Zonghetti, 
translated by Maria Castorani, Martina Mecco, Riccardo Mini, Giulia Sorrentino and Francesca Stefanelli).
Kostyuchenko received the prize in person in London, together with one of her English translators (Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse) on 14th June at Puskin House: an artistic, cultural and social space that explores Russian identity today.
“I Love Russia” was also named best book of the year by The New Yorker and TIME and chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review, who commented: “Jaw-dropping... her style of brave, intimate reporting is likely to be a rarity in Russia for years to come” (Valerie Hopkins).
From the rise of Putin to the war in Ukraine, “I Love Russia” opens up a glimpse into a world on the edge of the imaginable by combining reportage from the last fifteen years with some author's personal essays. They both describe a very human portrait of the country and of its oppressed people, whose voices are rarely heard.
