Fazil Iskander

Fasil Iskander Abdulowitsch (Russian Фазиль Абдулович Искандер; born March 6, 1929 in Sukhum ) is an Abkhaz writer who writes exclusively in Russian and now lives in Moscow.

Family, education and the beginning of the professional activity

His father, who operated a brick factory that was of Iranian descent, his mother Abchasierin. The father was expelled in 1938 along with other Iranian-born persons from the USSR. Fasil Iskander grew up in Abkhazia with relatives of his mother.

From 1947, he studied in Moscow at the Institute of Library Science, but then switched in 1951 to the Gorky Institute of Literature, where he graduated in 1954.

Between 1954 and 1956 he worked at the newspaper " Komsomolets Brjanski " in Bryansk, then at the " Kurskaja Pravda " in Kursk and from 1956 in Sukhumi as an editor of the Abkhazian branch of the Soviet state publishing house. There he worked until the early 90s.

Work as a writer

In 1952 his first poems were printed. The first volume of poetry appeared in 1957 in Sukhumi, followed by a second in 1959. Prose he wrote from 1962. His works have been published in various literary journals.

Widely known he was released with the 1966 in the literary magazine " Novy Mir " and to cross later translated into German satirical novella " The constellation of the Ziegentur " in which an Abkhazian village receives official task, a goat and a door to a particularly fruitful alleged racial produce. This state requirement is thwarted by the villagers in many ways.

International reputation gained by Iskander his satirical short stories and novels. His strongly shortened by censors epic " Sandro of Tschegem ", whose first part was published in 1973, was only in 1989, after the beginning of perestroika, be published in a full edition. For this work with many humorous and satirical stories in which Iskander reflects the history of the Abkhazian people from the late 19th century to the 1970s the Soviet period, there are several translations into German.

Also known are his stories for children, which focuses on the boy Tschik stands.

In 1979, he was beside Vasily Aksenov, Andrei Bitow, Viktor Erofeev and Yevgeny Popov on the editorial board of the literary almanac Metropol. To almanac he controls the later filmed satire " Malenki gigant bolschogo seksa " ( " Маленький гигант большого секса " ) at.

Numerous books and stories Fasil Iskander were filmed.

Social and political involvement

In 1957 Iskander was a member of the Soviet Writers' Union, where he held various functions in the sequence.

In 1989 Iskander Vice President of the Russian PEN Centre.

From 1989-92 Iskander was as People's Deputy of Parliament (MP ) for the Abkhazian ASSR at the Congress of People's Deputies.

Fasil Iskander worked in numerous committees and associations and served on the editorial colleges a variety of magazines and almanacs and worked in a variety of social and governmental committees, including the Committees for Human Rights (until 1996 ) and for pardons to the President of the Russian Federation ( to 2001 ) and was part of the 1996-2001 Council for Culture and the Arts to the President of the Russian Federation on.

Awards

He was awarded the Order of Merit 3rd class, after he had received in 1993 the State Prize of the Russian Federation and in 1989 the USSR State Prize in 1999. In addition, he has received numerous Russian and international culture awards, including the 1992 Pushkin Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation.

Works

  • Belshazzar feasts. From the life of Sandro of Tschegem. Novel. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-596-29504-1.
  • The Guardian of the mountains or the people know their heroes. News from the life of Sandro of Tschegem. Fischer, Frankfurt / M., 1988, ISBN 3-10-034703- X.
  • My uncle brave and honest. Narratives. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1978.
  • Uncle Sandro from Tschegem. Novel. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1978, ISBN 3-596-22123-4.
  • Sandro of Tschegem. The early episodes. Novel. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1989, ISBN 3-10-034704-8.
  • The sculpin. Novel. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1984.
  • The constellation of the Ziegentur. Amendment. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1968 ( spectrum Vol 4).
  • Tschegemer Carmen. Novel. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1993, ISBN 3-10-034705-6.
  • Tschik. Stories from the Caucasus. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1993, ISBN 3-596-29190-9.

Swell

  • Schkolny biografitscheski slowar, Moscow 2002
  • Russian Biography Fasil Iskander on the portal of Russian literary magazines " Russki shurnal "
  • Page " Russian - schriftsteller.de
  • Fasil Iskander's works in Russian on the Hronos.km.ru page
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