Boris Khazanov

Boris Khazanov (2008)

Boris Chasanow ( Russian Борис Хазанов ; born January 16, 1928 in Leningrad ) is a Russian author who has lived in Germany since 1982. His real name is Gennadi Moissejewitsch Faibussowitsch. Chasanow now lives in Munich .

Life

Boris Khazanov grew up in Moscow . He first studied classical philology until he was arrested in 1949 for anti-Soviet propaganda and sentenced to eight years of forced labor . After his early release in 1955, he studied medicine and worked as a doctor in Moscow. During this time he also began to work as a writer and translator. He translated Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's philosophical correspondence and other works by German theologians into Russian .

Works

• The Myth of Russia: Reflections from German Refuge , from the Russian by Annelore Nitschke , Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-87162-005-X .
• Gegenenzeit , from the Russian by Annelore Nitschke , Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 978-3-421-06317-5 .
• The royal hour , from the Russian by Annelore Nitschke , Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 978-3-421-06552-0 .
• Below is sky , from the Russian by Annelore Nitschke , Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 978-3-421-06630-5 .
• The Magic Teacher , translated from Russian by Annelore Nitschke , Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-421-05038-0 .
• Birds over Moscow , from the Russian by Annelore Nitschke , Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-421-05118-9 .

Awards

• Prices of the PEN
• Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile 1998 for his complete works together with his translator Annelore Nitschke

Web links

• Literature by and about Boris Chasanow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Boris Khazanov on INST
• Homepage in Russian