Eugene Vodolazkin

Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin
Born (1964-02-21) 21 February 1964 (age 60)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
OccupationNovelist
LanguageRussian, English
Alma materKiev University

Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin (Евгений Германович Водолазкин) is a Russian-Ukrainian scholar and author.[1] Born in Kiev in 1964,[2] he graduated from the Philological Department of Kiev 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 the Translation of the "Chronicle of George Hamartolos"'.[4]

Vodolazkin has been awarded fellowships from the Toepfer Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and won the Solzhenitsyn Prize in 2019.[5][6] His novel Laurus (Лавр) won the Russian Big Book Award as well as the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award.[7] It is one of ten best world novels about God by The Guardian version.[8] He has published in the Christian journals First Things and Plough.[9] His novels have been translated into several languages.

Personal life

Vodolazkin was born in 1964 in Kiev in Soviet Ukraine.[2] Though he is private about his childhood, he attended a school that focused on both Ukrainian and English languages, from which he graduated in 1981.[10] He went on to attend Kiev University, where he studied philology,[11] and the Pushkin House (known at the time as the Institute of Russian Literature).[10] The Pushkin House is where Vodolazkin met his wife, Tatiana Robertovna Rudi.[12] He defended his thesis in 1990, and his examiner Dmitry Likhachov offered him a faculty position.[3] Vodolazkin lives in St. Petersburg.

Works

Scholarly 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

References

  1. ^ "'Laurus' ("Лавр"): Evgeny Vodolazkin in Conversation with Josie von Zitzewitz". Archived from the original on 2022-12-11. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  2. ^ a b Morrison, P. (2019-06-03). "Book Review: The Aviator, Eugene Vodolazkin". RBCC. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  3. ^ a b c "Евгений Водолазкин: Человек в центре литературы". www.pravmir.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Wilson, J. (2020-10-30). "Solzhenitsyn: More Than Fashionable". First Things. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  6. ^ "Небеса "Авиатора" В Доме русского зарубежья состоялась церемония вручения премии Александра Солженицына" (in Russian). ‘Rossiyskaya Gazeta’. 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  7. ^ a b Kalfus, K. (2015-10-15). "Holy Foolery". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  8. ^ Griffiths, Neil (December 6, 2017). "Top 10 novels about God". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2017-12-08. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  9. ^ "Eugene Vodolazkin".
  10. ^ a b "Евгений Водолазкин". 24SMI (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  11. ^ "Евгений Водолазкин". FantLab.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  12. ^ неизвестен, Автор. "Eвгений & Tатьяна: больше 30 лет вместе". www.elle.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-07-29. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  13. ^ Vodolazkin, E. "Всемирная история в литературе Древней Руси (на материале хронографического и палейного повествования XI—XV вв.)" (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  14. ^ Vodolazkin, E. "Дмитрий Лихачёв и его эпоха: Воспоминания. Эссе. Документы. Фотографии" (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  15. ^ Vodolazkin, E. (2005). Похищение Европы: история Кристиана Шмидта, рассказанная им самим (in Russian). ISBN 9785872883166. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  16. ^ "The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin review – a time-traveller's life". The Guardian. 2018-06-07. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  17. ^ "Finalists announced for Russia's prestigious Big Book prize" (in Russian). Meduza. 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  18. ^ "Вышел новый роман Водолазкина "Оправдание Острова"" ['The Island Absolution': New Novel By Vodolazkin] (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 2020-11-27. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  19. ^ Vergara, José. "The Flower and the Forest: An Interview with Evgeny Vodolazkin". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  20. ^ "Evgeny Vodolazkin: "Russian literature has a special relationship with quarantine"". 2020-06-09. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2020-12-12.


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