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Andrey Viktorovich Dmitriev

アンドレイ・ヴィクトローヴィチ・ドミトリーエフ

Andrey Viktorovich Dmitriev

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1956-05-07 (Leningrad)
Nationality
Soviet Union, Russia
Languages
Russian
Residence History
Pskov (until age 12) → Moscow

Career

Occupations
novelist, editor, screenwriter
Active Years
1983-
Affiliations
Mosfilm, Goskino USSR

Education

Moscow State University
Philological Faculty / Philology
Period: 1973-1977
Year of Graduation: 1977
Country: Russia
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)
Screenwriting Faculty / Screenwriting
Period: 1978-1982
Year of Graduation: 1982
Country: Russia

Awards

Russian Booker Prize
2012
Work: The Peasant and the Teenager
Organization: Russian Booker
Result: winner
Yasnaya Polyana Prize
2012
Work: The Peasant and the Teenager
Organization: Yasnaya Polyana Foundation
Result: winner
Ivan Petrovich Belkin Prize
2004
Work: The Ghost of the Theater
Organization: Eksmo / Znamya
Result: winner
Government Prize in Culture
2013
Work: The Peasant and the Teenager
Organization: Government of the Russian Federation
Result: winner
Pushkin Prize
1995
Organization: Alfred Toepfer Foundation
Result: winner
Apollon Grigoryev Prize
2001
Work: The Road Back
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Peasant and the Teenager

2012 novel

A novel contrasting rural and urban life in modern Russia.

rural lifeurban lifegenerational conflict

This Shore

2021 novel

Story set on this shore.

lifememory

The Ghost of the Theater

2003 novella

Mysterious story revolving around a theater.

theaterghostart
Adaptations
  • [film] The Third Variant / コンスタンチン・フージャコフ (2003)

Bibliography

  • The Peasant and the Teenager
  • This Shore
  • Bay of Joy
  • The Ghost of the Theater
  • The Closed Book

Adaptations

  • The Third Variant (2003)
  • Gagarin. First in Space (2013)

Translations by Author

  • Patrick Süskind 'The Contrabass' (from German)

Translations of Works

  • French, German, etc.

Style & Themes

Literary Style
realismrefined prose
Recurring Motifs
Russian societyhuman relationshipsmemory

Legacy

Important figure in contemporary Russian literature, winner of numerous literary prizes. Also active as screenwriter.

Trivia

  • Debut in 1983 with 'Calm'