Yury Vasilyevich Buida (russian: Юрий Васильевич Буйда) (born 1954) is a Russian author. In 1994 his novel ''The Zero Train'' was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize.Russian Booker Prize website. His short story collection ''The Prussian Bride'' won the Apollon Grigoriev Prize in 1999, and its translation by Oliver Ready won the

Rossica Translation Prize The Rossica Translation Prize is a biennial award given to an exceptional published translation of a literary work from Russian into English. It is the only prize in the world for Russian to English literary translations. History of the prize The ...

in 2005.Dedalus Books website.

Life and work

He was born in

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in the

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...

region of Russia.Chandler, ''Russian Short Stories'', p. 374. He graduated from Kaliningrad University in 1982, then worked as a photojournalist and deputy editor for the regional newspaper. Since 1991, he has lived in Moscow and has written for several periodicals, including ''

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''. He is presently employed as an editor for the publishing division of ''

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''. In his novel ''The Prussian Bride'' and to a lesser extent in the novella ''Königsberg'', Buida explores the theme of the "complex attitudes of the Russian residents of the Kaliningrad region to the

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

past".

English translations

*''The Zero Train'', (novel), Dedalus, 2001. *''The Prussian Bride'', (novel), Dedalus, 2002. *''Sinbad the Sailor'', (story), from ''Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida'', Penguin Classics, 2006. *''More and More Angels'' and ''The Samurai's Dream'', (stories), from ''50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories'', Academic Studies Press, 2011.

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Russian male novelists Russian male short story writers 1954 births Living people Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University alumni {{russia-writer-stub