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Born | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | 21 February 1964
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | English |
Alma mater | Kiev 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] He has published in the Christian journals First Things and Plough. [8] 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. [9] He went on to attend Kiev University, where he studied philology, [10] and the Pushkin House (known at the time as the Institute of Russian Literature). [9] The Pushkin House is where Vodolazkin met his wife, Tatiana Robertovna Rudi. [11] He defended his thesis in 1990, and his examiner Dmitry Likhachov offered him a faculty position. [3] Vodolazkin lives in St. Petersburg.
An editor has performed a search and found that
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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 | English |
Alma mater | Kiev 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] He has published in the Christian journals First Things and Plough. [8] 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. [9] He went on to attend Kiev University, where he studied philology, [10] and the Pushkin House (known at the time as the Institute of Russian Literature). [9] The Pushkin House is where Vodolazkin met his wife, Tatiana Robertovna Rudi. [11] He defended his thesis in 1990, and his examiner Dmitry Likhachov offered him a faculty position. [3] Vodolazkin lives in St. Petersburg.