Eugene Vodolazkin

Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin (Евгений Германович Водолазкин) is a Russian-Ukrainian scholar and author.[1] Born in Kyiv in 1964,[2] he graduated from the Philological Department of Kyiv University in 1986.[3] In the same year, he entered graduate school at the Pushkin House in the department of Old Russian literature under Dmitry Likhachov.[3] In 1990, he defended his graduate thesis 'On the Translation of the "Chronicle of George Hamartolos"'.[4]

Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin
Born (1964-02-21) 21 February 1964
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
Alma materKyiv University

Vodolazkin has been awarded fellowships from the Toepfer Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and won the Solzhenitsyn Prize in 2019.[5][6] His novel Laurus (Лавр) won the Russian Big Book Award as well as the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award.[7] He has published in the Christian journals First Things and Plough.[8] His novels have been translated into several languages.

Personal life

Vodolazkin was born in 1964 in Kyiv in Soviet Ukraine.[2] Though he is private about his childhood, he attended a school that focused on both Ukrainian and English languages, from which he graduated in 1981.[9] He went on to attend Kyiv University, where he studied philology,[10] and the Pushkin House (known at the time as the Institute of Russian Literature).[9] The Pushkin House is where Vodolazkin met his wife, Tatiana Robertovna Rudi.[11] He defended his thesis in 1990, and his examiner Dmitry Likhachov offered him a faculty position.[3] Vodolazkin lives in St. Petersburg.

Works

Scholarly publications
  • World History in Literature of Ancient Russia (based on XI - XV materials)[12]
  • Dmitry Likhachov and his Epoch: Memoirs, Essays, Documents, Photographs[13]

Novels

References
  1. "'Laurus' ("Лавр"): Evgeny Vodolazkin in Conversation with Josie von Zitzewitz".
  2. Morrison, P. (2019-06-03). "Book Review: The Aviator, Eugene Vodolazkin". RBCC. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  3. "Евгений Водолазкин: Человек в центре литературы". www.pravmir.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  4. Luchenko, K. (2014-01-29). "Евгений Водолазкин: Человек в центре литературы" [Eugene Vodolazkin: Man in Centre of Literature] (in Russian). Pravmir. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  5. Wilson, J. (2020-10-30). "Solzhenitsyn: More Than Fashionable". First Things. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  6. "Небеса "Авиатора" В Доме русского зарубежья состоялась церемония вручения премии Александра Солженицына" (in Russian). ‘Rossiyskaya Gazeta’. 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  7. Kalfus, K. (2015-10-15). "Holy Foolery". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  8. "Eugene Vodolazkin".
  9. "Евгений Водолазкин". 24SMI (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  10. "Евгений Водолазкин". FantLab.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  11. неизвестен, Автор. "Eвгений & Tатьяна: больше 30 лет вместе". www.elle.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  12. Vodolazkin, E. "Всемирная история в литературе Древней Руси (на материале хронографического и палейного повествования XI—XV вв.)" (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  13. Vodolazkin, E. "Дмитрий Лихачёв и его эпоха: Воспоминания. Эссе. Документы. Фотографии" (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  14. Vodolazkin, E. (2005). Похищение Европы: история Кристиана Шмидта, рассказанная им самим (in Russian). ISBN 9785872883166. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  15. "The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin review – a time-traveller's life". The Guardian. 2018-06-07. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  16. "Finalists announced for Russia's prestigious Big Book prize" (in Russian). Meduza. 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  17. "Вышел новый роман Водолазкина "Оправдание Острова"" ['The Island Absolution': New Novel By Vodolazkin] (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 2020-11-27. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  18. Vergara, José. "The Flower and the Forest: An Interview with Evgeny Vodolazkin". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  19. "Evgeny Vodolazkin: "Russian literature has a special relationship with quarantine"". 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-12-12.


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