Alexander Wiktorowitsch Ilitschewski
Alexander Wiktorowitsch Ilitschewski ( Russian Александр Викторович Иличевский ; born November 25, 1970 in Sumqayıt , then the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a Russian writer.
Life
From 1985 to 1987 Ilichevsky attended the Kolmogorow School of Physics and Mathematics, which is affiliated to Moscow's Lomonossow University . After completing his studies at the Faculty of Physics at Lomonosov University in 1993, he specifically taught theoretical physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . Ilichevsky worked scientifically in Israel and California , where he had emigrated in the 1990s. After a trip to Amsterdam, he returned to Baku ( Azerbaijan ) in 1998. Ilichevsky has lived in Tel Aviv since 2013 ; his great-grandmother also emigrated to Israel, she lived in Jerusalem .
Since the 1990s Ilichevsky published a number of novels, some of which deal with the conditions in Russia at the time. He regularly publishes articles in Russian magazines such as Nowy Mir , Oktjabr , Ural , Commentarni and Soyuz Pisatelej . He is also the author of the Russian popular science portal Technologija-ZOO .
Ilichevsky also published short stories about his travels.
Prizes and awards
- 2005: First place in the poetry category at the Dwarim literary competition
- 2005: Winner of the Nowi Mir Prize
- 2007: Russian Booker Prize for Matiss
- 2010: Bolschaja Kniga Prize for pers
- 2011: Final selection for the Yasnaja Poljana literature prize for pers
- 2015: Prix Russophonie for the French translation of the novel Pers [ Le Persan ].
Publications
prose
- 1996: Slutschaj .
- 1998: Solara. Novel.
- 2000: Dom w meschtschere. Komentarii, Moscow / St. Petersburg.
- 2005: Aj-Petri: Nagornij rasskas , Roman. Vremya Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-9691-0270-5 .
- 2006: Matiss. Novel. Vremya Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 5-9691-0257-1 .
- Matisse . Translated from Russian by Valerie Engler and Friederike Meltendorf. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-003-1 .
- 2008: Mister Neft. Drug. Novel. Vremya Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-9691-0339-9 .
- 2009: Pers. Novel; New edition 2012. Astrel Verlag, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-2714-1043-7 .
- The Persian. Novel. Translated from Russian by Andreas Tretner . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42499-5 .
- 2011: Mathematics. Novel. Astrel Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-17-073725-3 .
- 2012: Anarchisty. Novel. Astrel Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-2714-0399-6 .
- 2012: Gorod zakata: Progulka po stjenije (Travelog). Astrel Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-2714-4516-3 .
- Jerusalem. City of the setting sun . Translated from Russian by Jennie Seitz and Friederike Meltendorf. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-957574-65-7 .
- 2013: Soldaty Apšeronskogo polka. Matiss, Pers, Matematik, Anarchisty. Astrel Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-17-077785-3 .
- 2013: Orfiki. Roman, Astrel Publishing House, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-17-077727-3 .
- 2015: Sprava nalevo. Short stories and essays, Astrel Verlag, Moscow, ISBN 978-5-17-088621-0 .
Poems
- 2005: Butilka klejna .
literature
- Svetlana Sirotinina, Nina Weller: Finding a home and appropriating space with Aleksandr Iličevskij and Aleksej Ivanov. In: Bettina Lange, Nina Weller, Georg Witte (eds.): The no longer new people. Russian films and novels of the millennium. Sagner, Munich / Berlin / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-86688-251-5 , pp. 111-142
- Karlheinz Kasper: Megapolis versus Province. Russia's contrasts in the novel. In: Osteuropa , 11, 2008, pp. 129–154
Web links
- Biography and report about Matisse
- Interview by Nina Weller with Aleksandr Ilitschewski in novinki.de
- Images of a novel. Journal for the translation of the novel "Der Perser" by Alexander Ilitschewski , by Andreas Tretner , in TOLEDO-Journal, undated (first version January 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Schröder: Monsters of the Caspian Sea. Alexander Ilitschewski's novel "The Persians". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 23, 2016, p. 21.
- ↑ Nina Weller: Aleksandr Ilitschewski , Interview, at novinki.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ilitschewski, Alexander Wiktorowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Иличевский, Александр Викторович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian physicist, poet and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sumqayıt , Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic |