Pyotr Markovich Aleshkovsky (russian: Пётр Ма́ркович Алешко́вский; born 22 September 1957) is a Russian writer, historian, broadcaster, television presenter, journalist and archaeologist.

Biography

Peter Aleshkovsky was born on 22 September 1957 to historian and Natalia Germanovna Nedoshivina in Moscow. Russian bard and writer

Yuz Aleshkovsky Iosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky (russian: Ио́сиф Ефи́мович Алешко́вский), known as Yuz Aleshkovsky (russian: Юз Алешко́вский) (September 21, 1929 – March 21, 2022) was a modern Russian writer, poet, screenwr ...

is his uncle. Aleskhovsky is the husband of Tamara Eidelman, a son-in-law to Natan Eidelman, and he is the father of photographer . He graduated with a degree in history from the

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in 1979. Working with "Союзреставрация" (Soyuzrestaurations) from 1979 to 1985, he restored several monasteries in northern Russian regions, among them

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, Kirillo-Belozersky, Ferapontov and Solovetsky. He began writing stories since 1989 in the journal ''Wolga'', then switching to numerous other magazines, among them ''The Youth'', ''October'' and ''The Capital''. From 2000 to 2002 he worked at the literary magazine '' Book's Revue'', and hosted the TV show with the same name on Rossiya. From 2007 to 2008 he maintained a weekly column in the journal '' The Russian Reporter''. In 2008 he also wrote essays there. He hosted the television show ''Alphabet of Reading'' on ''

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''. Themes and style of his literary works are individual, ranging from

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and realistic stories, fairy tales and historical narrations, often with a touch of humour. "His works are richly descriptive and evocative of the uniquely Russian worldview, while at the same time tapping into universal human emotions and experiences".

Awards

Aleshkovsky won the

Russian Booker Prize The Russian Booker Prize (russian: Русский Букер, ''Russian Booker'') was a Russian literary award modeled after the Booker Prize. It was awarded from 1992 to 2017. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris C ...

in 2016 for his novel ''

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''. His book ''Skunk: A Life'' (Жизнеописание Хорька) was nominated for the 1994 Booker, ''Vladimir Chigrintsev'' two years later for the same accolade, and ''A Fish'' (Рыба) was nominated for the 2006 Booker and the 2006 '' Big Book''.

References

External links

List of journalistic works
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