Igor Jurjewitsch Klech

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Igor Jurjewitsch Klech ( Russian Игорь Юрьевич Клех ; born December 13, 1952 in Cherson ) is a Russian prose writer, publicist and essayist.

Life

Igor Klech was born into a family of engineers. He spent his school days in Ivano-Frankivsk and graduated from Lviv University in 1975 with a degree in Russian Philology . He then worked as a restaurateur for 17 years. His first publication appeared in 1989 in Rodnik magazine . He has lived in Moscow since 1994. He is a member of the Association of Russian Writers and the Russian PEN Center.

In 1993 he was awarded the Pushkin Prize of the Töpfer Foundation Hamburg for his work, in 1995 the Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and in 2000 the Juri Kazakow Prize for the best story of the year.

Publications in German translation

  • The book of food: Pelmeni and pierogi, borscht and bigos & Co. Edition.fotoTapeta, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940524-12-6 .

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SURNAME Klech, Igor Yuryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Клех, Игорь Юрьевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian prose writer, publicist and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kherson