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Andrei Volos
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Andrei Germanovich Volos (Russian: Андрей Германович Волос; born 4 August 1955) is a Russian writer.[1]
His first novel Khurramabad received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts for year 2000.[2]
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Born in Stalinabad (Dushanbe), Tajik SSR in the family of a candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences German Stepanovich Volos. Graduated from the Gubkin Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry, specializing in "industrial geophysics" (1977).[3]
Returned to Dushanbe, where he was engaged in translations of Tajik poetry. In 1979, he debuted with his own poems in the magazine "Pamir".
His first book, a poetry collection "Old Highway", was published in 1988.
Until 1994, he worked in Moscow as a geophysicist and programmer, was engaged in real estate activities, and twice entered the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.[4]
In 1986, he debuted as a prose writer, publishing his first story in the magazine, in 1989 his collection of short stories and novellas "Team 22/19" was published.[4]
In 1991 he was accepted into the Union of Soviet Writers.[3]
His first novel, Khurramabad (2000), received the Russian State Prize, as well as the Antibooker, Moscow-Penne, and Znamya magazine awards.[5]
In his novel, The Winner (2008), the writer recreated the circumstances of the storming of the presidential palace in Kabul.[6][7] The hero of the novel, Return to Panjrud (2013), is the great Tajik and Persian poet Rudaki.[8]
His works have been translated into English, German,[9] and Mongolian.[10]
He is a member of the Moscow Writers' Union,[4] the PEN Club, and the public council of the Novy Mir magazine. He is a professor of literary craftsmanship at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.[3]
He lives in Moscow.
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Novels
- Khurramabad «Хуррамабад», 2000 (the Tajik spelling of "-abad" is used in translation because the novel alludes to Dushanbe)
- Real Estate «Недвижимость», 2001
- Maskaw Mecca «Маскавская Мекка», 2003
- Animator «Аниматор», 2005
- The Victor «Победитель», 2008
- Return to Panjrud «Возвращение в Панджруд», 2013
Awards
Writer's literary awards include:[1]
- 2013: Russian Booker award, for Return to Panjrud
- 2013: Russian Student Booker award, for Return to Panjrud
- 2013: Ivan Bunin literary award
- 2001: State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts, Russia for 2000, for Khurramabad[2]
- 2000: Novy Mir magazine award, Russia for Khurramabad published in the magazine
- 1998: Anti-Booker Prize, Russia, for the manuscript of Khurramabad
- 1998: Moscow Penne Award, Italy, for a series of stories upon which Khurramabad was to be based
References
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