Eugene Vodolazkin
Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin (Евгений Германович Водолазкин) is a Russian-Ukrainian scholar and author. Born in Kiev in 1964, he graduated from the Philological Department of Kiev University in 1986. In the same year, he entered graduate school at the Pushkin House in the department of Old Russian literature under Dmitry Likhachov. In 1990, he defended his graduate thesis 'On the Translation of the "Chronicle of George Hamartolos"'.
Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin | |
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| Born | 21 February 1964 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Kiev University |
Vodolazkin has been awarded fellowships from the Toepfer Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and won the Solzhenitsyn Prize in 2019. His novel Laurus (Лавр) won the Russian Big Book Award as well as the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award. He has published in the Christian journals First Things and Plough. His novels have been translated into several languages.