Alexei Viktorovich Ivanov

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Alexei Ivanov

Alexei Wiktorowitsch Iwanow ( Russian Алексей Викторович Иванов , scientific transliteration Aleksej Viktorovič Ivanov ; born November 23, 1969 in Gorki ) is a Russian writer and screenwriter. He lives in Perm and is considered one of the most important Russian prose writers of the 21st century. He became known nationally with the novel "The Heart of Parma".

Life

Alexei Ivanov was born on November 23, 1969 in Nizhny Novgorod into a family of shipbuilding engineers. The family moved to Perm in 1971 , where Ivanov spent his childhood and adolescence. After graduating from school, in 1987 he began studying at the Faculty of Journalism at the Gorky State University of the Urals in Yekaterinburg. He left the university after a year and returned to UrGU in 1990 to study art history and cultural studies. In 1996 he graduated with success.

In 1990 he made his debut as an essayist with the fantastic story Охота на Большую Медведицу (The Hunt for the Big Bear) in the magazine “Уральский следопыт” (Sverdlovsk). After returning to Perm, Ivanov worked as a security guard, journalist, teacher, university lecturer and tour guide. Countless journeys took him through the Urals region and aroused his interest in exploring the regions in greater anthropological terms. This gave him the impetus for the novel "Сердце Пармы" (The Heart of Parma), with which he became known in 2003 as a brilliant storyteller and cultural historian. During this time, Ivanov founded the Children's Museum of Local History in Perm with students.

Many of his works have already been awarded several important literary prizes. It has been nominated three times for the National Best Seller Award.

In 2008 Ivanov worked on the first joint film project with the Russian director Pawel Semjonowitsch Lungin , for which he wrote the script for the period film Tsar (Zar) (2009). The film was shown to a sold-out house and earned high recognition at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009. In the same year, the film Tsar opened the 31st Moscow International Film Festival.

In 2009 [[The Geographer who drank up the globe]] premiered at the Na Strastnom Theater in Moscow. On November 2, 2011, filming began based on the novel of the same name. Director of the film: Alexander Veledinsky, producer: Valery Todorovsky, the main role played Konstantin Chabensky.

Out of an interest in cultural studies, Ivanov regularly undertakes research trips to the Urals region . In 2011, Ivanov produced the four-part documentary Хребет России (Russia's backbone) together with the journalist Leonid Parfjonow .

His book “Увидеть русский бунт”, published in 2012, is a collection of 149 essays and 600 photos about the Pugachev uprising . The preparations for the project took two years. Ivanov and his team of photographers took 24 photo expeditions through almost 200 Russian cities and villages in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Estonia. The Pugachev theme inspired him to come up with the idea of ​​using documentary imagery with photographed materials to bring the structure of Russia and the importance of individual provincial regions: Urals, Bashkiristan, Volga closer into focus, which, as the author himself says, “like the splinters of one Mosaics of the social and cultural phenomena for the development of the country can be seen and, like a litmus test, show the diverse structure of the country. The difference between the life forms is the difference between the identities of these regions up to this day. Photography can make landscapes, places and regions concretely visible in their distinctiveness without further explanation ”.

In 2015 Nenastʹe , a book about Afghanistan veterans, was published, which became Book of the Year in 2016. In November 2018, the eponymous TV series "Bad Weather" started, in which the plot was brought forward to the 1990s compared to the original by Ivanov "so as not to" dirty Putin's white vest ", according to the culture critic of Novaya Gazeta .

Ivanov lives and works in Perm; despite numerous invitations, he rarely leaves the region.

Works

Novels

  • 1992: Общага-на-Крови.
  • 1995: Географ глобус пропил (опубл. 2003).
  • 2003: Сердце Пармы, или Чердынь - княгиня гор.
  • 2005: Золото бунта, или Вниз по реке теснин.
  • 2007: Блуда и МУДО.
  • 2009: Летоисчисление от Иоанна.
  • 2011: Псоглавцы (под псевдонимом Алексей Маврин).
  • 2012: Комьюнити.
    • German: Community. Translation by Heike Meister and Tatiana Lourie, (2013).

Novellas, essays

  • 1989: Корабли и галактика.
  • 1989: Земля-сортировочная.
  • 1989: Охота на "Большую Медведицу".
  • 1989: Победитель Хвостика.

Factual prose

  • 2004: Вниз по реке теснин (краеведческий очерк).
  • 2005: Железные караваны.
  • 2007: Message: Чусовая.
  • 2009: Хребет России.
  • 2009: Дорога Единорога (очерки о г. Лысьва и его металлургическом заводе).
  • 2012: Увидеть русский бунт.

Movies

Scripts

Literary templates

Documentation

  • 2011: Хребет России - Director: Leonid Parfjonow

theatre

Географ глобус пропил (The Geographer Who Drank Up the Globe) has been staged in more than 50 theaters in Russia.

Awards

  • 2003 DNMamin Sibirjak Prize
  • 2004 "Heurekal" award
  • 2004 "Start" award
  • 2004 PPBaschow Prize
  • 2006 Book of the Year
  • 2006 "Portal" award
  • 2006 "The Marble Faun" award
  • 2007 Internet voting "The Best Book"
  • Three times nomination as "National Best Seller"
  • 2017: Platonow Prize

Ivanov was named "Person of the Year for Culture" by the Perm Press for his cultural commitment.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the dictionary, "Parma" refers to a flattened slope in the northern Urals of the Perm region, forested with spruce and fir trees and covered with a thick layer of moss.
  2. ^ Festival de Cannes: Tsar . In: festival-cannes.com . Retrieved May 17, 2009.
  3. ↑ As a job title meaning "geography teacher"
  4. ↑ Winter will be great , Novaya Gazeta, November 20, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Ivanov, Alexei Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Иванов, Алексей Викторович; Ivanov, Aleksej Viktorovič; Ivanov, Aleksey V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorky