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Fazil Abdulovich Iskander

ファジル・アブドゥローヴィチ・イスカンデル

Faziru Abuduroruvichi Isukander

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1929-03-06 (Sukhumi)
Died
2016-07-31 (Peredelkino) age 87
Nationality
Russian
Languages
Russian
Residence History
Sukhumi, Abkhazia → Moscow, Russia

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Active Years
1960-2016
Affiliations
Honorary Member of Russian Academy of Arts
Memberships
Russian Academy of Arts

Awards

USSR State Prize
1989
Work: Sandro of Chegem
Organization: USSR Government
Result: 受賞
Pushkin Prize
1992
Organization: Alfred Toepfer foundation
Result: 受賞
State Prize of the Russian Federation
1993
Category: 文学・芸術
Organization: Russian Government
Result: 受賞
State Prize of the Russian Federation
2013
Category: 文学・芸術
Organization: Russian Government
Result: 受賞
Triumph Prize
1999
Result: 受賞
Order of Merit for the Fatherland
1999
Category: 3等
Organization: Russian Federation
Result: 受賞
Order of Merit for the Fatherland
2004
Category: 2等
Organization: Russian Federation
Result: 受賞
Order of Merit for the Fatherland
2010
Category: 4等
Organization: Russian Federation
Result: 受賞
Order of Honour and Glory, 1st class
2002
Organization: Abkhazia
Result: 受賞
Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award
2011
Work: Sandro of Chegem
Result: 受賞
Ivan Bunin literary award
2013
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Sandro of Chegem

1973 Picaresque novel

A picaresque novel recounting life in a fictional Abkhaz village from the early 20th century to the 1970s.

Caucasian lifeSatire
Adaptations
  • [Film]
Translations
  • English translation available

Bibliography

  • Sandro of Chegem
  • Zashita Chika
  • The Goatibex Constellation

Translations of Works

  • English, Spanish, etc.

Style & Themes

Literary Style
SatiricalPicaresqueHumorous
Recurring Motifs
Abkhazian lifeSoviet satire

Legacy

Known as an Abkhazian Mark Twain for his satirical depictions of Caucasian life.

In Popular Culture

  • Featured on Abkhazian 10 apsar commemorative coin

Trivia

  • Father was Iranian, deported under Stalin and died in a camp.
  • Statue of his character Chik unveiled in Sukhumi.