Aleksandr Kabakov | |
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Born | 1943 |
Died | 2020 Moscow |
Occupation(s) | Writer and journalist |
Aleksandr Kabakov was a Russian writer and journalist. [1] He was born in 1943 in Novosibirsk, where his family had been evacuated during World War II. [2] He studied mechanics and mathematics in Dnipropetrovsk, and worked in a missile factory after graduation. Eventually, he landed at the railroad industry newspaper Gudok , where he worked for more than a decade; he also worked at Moscow News and Kommersant. [3] [4]
He became well known during the Perestroika period for his dystopian novel No Return, which was translated into multiple languages and also adapted into a film. [5] The English translation was done by Thomas Whitney. [6] Other noted works include The Last Hero (1995) and Nothing's Lost (2003), which won the second jury prize from the Big Book Award and the Apollon Grigoriev Prize . [7] With Yevgeny Popov, he co-wrote a book of reminiscences about the writer Vasily Aksyonov that was shortlisted for the 2012 Big Book Award. [8]
He died in Moscow in 2020. [9]