Aleksandr Kabakov | |
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| Александр Кабаков | |
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| Born | Aleksandr Abramovich Kabakov 23 October 1943 [1] |
| Died | 18 April 2020 (aged 76) [3] Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and journalist |
Aleksandr Abramovich Kabakov (Russian: Александр Абрамович Кабаков; (22 October 1943 - 18 April 2020), was a Russian writer and journalist. [4]
Aleksandr Kabakov was born in 22 October 1943 in Novosibirsk, where his family had been evacuated during World War II. [5] 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 . [6] [7]
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. [8] The English translation was done by Thomas Whitney. [9] 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 . [10] With Yevgeny Popov, he co-wrote a book of reminiscences about the writer Vasily Aksyonov that was shortlisted for the 2012 Big Book Award. [11]
He died in Moscow in 18 April 2020. [12]
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