Zakhar Prilepin

Sachar Prilepin (Russian Захар Прилепин, pseudonym of Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin (Russian: Евгений Николаевич Прилепин ) * July 7, 1975 in Ryazan, Soviet Union) is a Russian writer, editor and informal member of the banned National Bolshevik Party of Russia faction.

Life

Prilepins father is a university professor, his mother a nurse. He studied philology and linguistics at the University of Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod. He held various activities before he joined the police force OMON and participated with this in the years 1996 and 1999 in Chechnya anti-terror operations. During this time he joined the Nationalbolschewiken that are prohibited by court order since 2005 as unconstitutional organization.

In 2004 Prilepin part in two writing seminars. Since then he has been active as a writer. Some of his publications have been award-winning. In his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod in 2010, he was one of the organizers of a protest march against the government. He was among the first signatories of the Manifesto 34 against Vladimir Putin entitled Putin must go out of the March 2010.

Prilepin lives with his wife, two daughters and two sons as editor of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta in Nizhny Novgorod.

Awards and prizes

• 2006: Nominated for the Russian Booker Prize for his book Patologii.
• 2008: National Bestseller Prize for his book Grech ( sin ).
• 2009: Bunin Prize for Terra Tartarara. Eto kasajetsja lizno menja ( Terra Tartarara. It concerns me personally ).

Publications

• 2005: Patologii. Novel. Andrejewski flag, Moscow; as an e -book: in Russian.
• 2006: Sankya. Novel. Ad Marginem, Moscow 2012: German by Erich Klein: Sankya. Novel Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-88221-579-3.