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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]
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Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin | |
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Born | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | 21 February 1964
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | Russian, English |
Alma mater | Kiev University |
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.
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.
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