Eugene Vodolazkin
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Summary[]
Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin (Евгений Германович Водолазкин) is a Russian scholar and author.[1] Born in Kiev in 1964,[2] he graduated from the Philological Department of Kyiv University in 1986.[3] In the same year, he entered graduate school at the Pushkin House in the department of Old Russian Literature under Dmitry Likhachov.[3] In 1990, he defended his graduate thesis ‘On Translation of “Chronicle of George Hamartolos”’.[4]
Vodolazkin has been awarded fellowships from the Toepfer Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has written for First Things and been published in Plough.[5] Won the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Literature Prize in 2019.[6][7]
Vodolazkin is considered to be the most important among contemporary Russian writers; his books are translated into many languages and receive international recognition.[8] His novel Laurus (Лавр) won the Russian Big Book Award as well as the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award.[9]
He lives with his family in St. Petersburg.
Personal life[]
Vodolazkin was born in 1964 in Kiev, when it was still part of the USSR.[2] Though he is private about his childhood, he attended a school that focused on both Ukrainian and English languages, which he graduated from in 1981.[10] After graduating from secondary school, he went on to attend Kiev State University, where he studied philology.[11] Upon graduating, he applied to graduate school at the Pushkin House (known at the time as the Institute of Russian Literature),[10] and passed the entrance exam with an unusually high score.[3] The Pushkin House is where he met his wife, Tatiana Robertovna Rudi.[12] Vodolazkin defended his thesis in 1990, and when Dmitry Likhachov heard it he offered him a faculty position at the Pushkin House.[3]
Works[]
Publications[]
- World History in Literature of Ancient Russia (based on XI - XV materials);[13]
- Dmitry Likhachov and his Epoch: Memoirs, Essays, Documents, Photographs;[14]
Novels[]
- The Abduction of Europa (2005);[15]
- Solovyov and Larionov, Andrei Bely Prize, Big Book Award shortlist;
- Laurus (2012), Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, 21st century category, win; Big Book Award, first prize;[9]
- The Aviator (2015), Big Book Award, second prize;[16]
- House and Island: Language Tool (2015);
- Brisbane (2018);[17]
- The Pet Market (2019);
- Go Dauntlessly (2020);
- Justification of the Island(2020);[18][19]
- Sister of Four (2020).[20]
References[]
- ^ "'Laurus' ("Лавр"): Evgeny Vodolazkin in Conversation with Josie von Zitzewitz".
- ^ Jump up to: a b Morrison, P. (2019-06-03). "Book Review: The Aviator, Eugene Vodolazkin". RBCC. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Евгений Водолазкин: Человек в центре литературы". www.pravmir.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-28.
- ^ Luchenko, K. (2014-01-29). "Евгений Водолазкин: Человек в центре литературы" [Eugene Vodolazkin: Man in Centre of Literature] (in Russian). Pravmir. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ "Eugene Vodolazkin".
- ^ Wilson, J. (2020-10-30). "Solzhenitsyn: More Than Fashionable". First Things. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ "Небеса "Авиатора" В Доме русского зарубежья состоялась церемония вручения премии Александра Солженицына" (in Russian). ‘Rossiyskaya Gazeta’. 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ "Eugene Vodolazkin: The Russian multi award-winning novelist is translated into English for the first time". Edinburgh International Book Festival. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Kalfus, K. (2015-10-15). "Holy Foolery". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Евгений Водолазкин". 24SMI (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-29.
- ^ "Евгений Водолазкин". FantLab.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-29.
- ^ неизвестен, Автор. "Eвгений & Tатьяна: больше 30 лет вместе". www.elle.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-29.
- ^ Vodolazkin, E. "Всемирная история в литературе Древней Руси (на материале хронографического и палейного повествования XI—XV вв.)" (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-12-25.
- ^ Vodolazkin, E. "Дмитрий Лихачёв и его эпоха: Воспоминания. Эссе. Документы. Фотографии" (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-12-25.
- ^ Vodolazkin, E. (2005). Похищение Европы: история Кристиана Шмидта, рассказанная им самим (in Russian). ISBN 9785872883166. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
- ^ "The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin review – a time-traveller's life". The Guardian. 2018-06-07. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ "Finalists announced for Russia's prestigious Big Book prize" (in Russian). Meduza. 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
- ^ "Вышел новый роман Водолазкина "Оправдание Острова"" ['The Island Absolution': New Novel By Vodolazkin] (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 2020-11-27. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
- ^ Vergara, José. "The Flower and the Forest: An Interview with Evgeny Vodolazkin". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
- ^ "Evgeny Vodolazkin: "Russian literature has a special relationship with quarantine"". 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
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