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Andrei Volos | |
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Андрей Волос | |
| Born | 4 August 1955 |
| Alma mater | Gubkin Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry |
| Occupation | Writer |
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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]
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.
Writer's literary awards include:[1]
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