Vladimir Alexandrovich Sharov
Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Scharow ( Russian Владимир Александрович Шаров ; born April 7, 1952 in Moscow ; † August 17, 2018 there ) was a Russian writer .
Life
Vladimir Sharov was born in Moscow in 1952. His father was a popular children's book author Alexander Sharov (1909-1984). Sharov attended the well-known Moscow mathematics school No. 2, then he graduated from the history course at the University of Voronezh . His specialty was the so-called Smuta or "Time of Troubles" in Russia at the beginning of the 17th century. After graduating, Sharov worked for a few years at the All-Russian Archival Science and Records Management Research Institute (VNIIDAD), then lived as a freelance writer in Moscow. Vladimir Sharov published his first of a total of nine novels in 1991 under the title On the Trail ( След в след ). In 2014, the writer received the US $ 20,000 Russian Booker Prize for his epistolary novel Return to Egypt ( Возвращение в Египет ) . In addition, the novel took third place in the Russian literary prize The Big Book . Vladimir Sharov's books have been translated into several languages, including French, Italian and English. The novels received high praise from critics.
Works
Novels
- On the trail (Cлед в след, 1991)
- Repetitions (Репетиции, 1992)
- Before and after (До и во время, 1993)
- How should I not suffer (Мне ли не пожалеть, 1995)
- The old girl (Старая девочка, 1998)
- The Resurrection of Lazarus (Воскрешение Лазаря, 2002)
- Be like the children (Будьте, как дети, 2008)
- Return to Egypt (Возвращение в Египет, 2013)
- Kingdom of Agamemnon (Царство Агамемнона, 2018)
Essays
- Cross pollination (Перекрестное опыление, 2019)
English Translations
- Before and During , novel, Dedalus , 2015, tr. Oliver Ready. ISBN 978-1907650710
- The Rehearsals , novel, Dedalus , 2018, tr. Oliver Ready. ISBN 978-1910213148
Awards
- 2014 Russian Booker Prize for Best Novel of the Year: Return to Egypt .
- 2014 Bolshaya Kniga Prize (third prize) in Russia for return to Egypt .
Web links
- Russian Booker Literary Prize official site
- "Remembering Writer Vladimir Sharov" by Oliver Ready August 21, 2018, The Moscow Times.
- "The Runaway and the Ship" by Michail Schischkin. An essay about Vladimir Sharov in the book "A Letter on Snow"
Individual evidence
- ↑ gazeta.ru: Умер Владимир Шаров, August 17, 2018 , accessed on August 17, 2018
- ↑ Before and During by Vladimir Sharov, book review: Madness, fantasy and biblical references by Anna Aslanyan , The Independent, February 27, 2014
- ↑ Not a gift by Caryl Emerson , The Times Literary Supplement, April 9, 2014
- ^ Highly Magical History by Rachel Polonsky , The New York Review of Books, July 9, 2015
- ↑ The Children of Catastrophes: On Vladimir Sharov's “The Rehearsals” By Caryl Emerson , The Los Angeles Review of Books, November 27, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharov, Vladimir Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шаров, Владимир Александрович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 2018 |
| Place of death | Moscow |