Alexandre Bondar (russian: Александр Бондарь; born 21 September 1972) is a Russian writer and novelist, "
literary remake
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" genre founder.
He was born in
Krasnodar
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,
Russia
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, in 1972. He studied at
Kuban State University
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in the Department of Journalism and also at
Moscow Humanitarian University
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in the Department of Russian Language and Literature. Between 1995 and 2007 he lived in Canada and attended courses in Russian Literature at the University of Toronto. Between the years 1991-1995 he worked as a press reporter in
Krasnodar
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and
Sochi
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and was the editor of a Krasnodar newspaper in
Tuapse
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Tuapse i ...
. Alexandre Bondar's prose has been published in numerous Russian-language magazines and newspapers in
Canada
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, the
United States
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and Russia, and in several books published in
Moscow
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and
Montreal
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, including critically acclaimed "Nochnoj Kabak. (Povesti i rasskazy)" ("Night Restaurant. Selected novels and short stories" ("Klenovye Listja", Montreal)). Alexandre Bondar is a member of the North American Writers' Union. In 2007 he returned in Russia. Now he lives in Moscow.
Selected works
Novels
* The Gigolo (1999)
* The Year of Black Monkey (2003)
* The Cat Girl has Nine Lives (2005)
* While Black Moon (2003)
* The Drummer Girl (2003)
* The Evening Bluz (1999)
* Downtown (1997)
* The Town I See in My Dream (2003)
* The Toy (2002)
* Ivan Tsarevich and Vasilisa Prekrasnaja (1994)
* The Night Restaurant (2003)
* The Cross of the Iron (2004)
* The Black Avengers (2004)
* On the Ruins of the Old Fortress (2004)
* Blood and Hate (2007)
* The Lights of the Night Highway (2001)
* The Passenger from the Tel-Aviv (2000)
* Dead Calm (1999)
* The Dreams of the Dead City (1997)
* The Mystery of the Red Сave (2007)
* Tanya (2004)
* The Last Street Car (1999)
* The Animal (2004)
Short stories
* Alyonka (2007)
* The Tale about Anna-Francheska (2004)
* The Refugee (2002)
* The Bomb in the Elevator (2001)
* The Red Roses Bouquet (1999)
* The House on the Corner (2004)
* Two in the Train (1994)
* The Forum (1999)
* The Chochols in Torontschina (2002)
* Ivan Kryukov (2004)
* The Cook (2002)
* «Good Night, Children!» in Toronto (2002)
* Masha (2004)
* Masha and the Bolsheviks (2004)
* One More Moment of the Spring (1989)
* Natasha (2004)
* Olesya (2004)
* The Autumn (1991)
* The Parcel (2007)
* Lyonka Panteleev (2004)
* The Bullets (2007)
* The Happy Letter (2002)
* The Interview with the Poet (2003)
* The Human Rights Fighter (2002)
* The Conversation with the Preacher (2002)
* Russian Rock in Toronto (2002)
* The Manuscript that was Found under the Bed (1989)
* The Sexopathologist (2002)
* The Tanechka, The Policaj Granddaughter (2004)
* The Journalism in Toronto (2003)
* The Wind in The Chechen Mountains (2007)
* The Returning (2003)
* The Remembrance Day (2007)
* Jane and Finch (2007)
* Thai Cuisine (2007)
* On the Funeral (2007)
* The Outside Trip (2007)
* The Verdict (2007)
* The Patriot School (2007)
External links
*http://det.lib.ru/a/aleksandr_b/
*https://archive.today/20070211110937/http://eldb.net/name/nm000327/
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Russian male writers
1972 births
Living people