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Mark Sergeyevich Kharitonov

マルク・セルゲーエヴィチ・ハリトノフ

Mark Sergeyevich Kharitonov

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1937-08-31 (Zhitomir, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR)
Died
2024-01-08 (Unknown) age 86
Nationality
Russian
Languages
Russian
Residence History
Moscow

Career

Occupations
writer, poet, essayist, translator
Active Years
1969-2024
Influenced By
Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse

Education

Moscow State Pedagogical University
Country: Russia

Awards

Russian Booker Prize
1992
Work: Lines of Fate
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Lines of Fate

1992 Postmodernism

The narrator, a literary historian named Anton Lizavin, attempts to piece together the life of a fictional Soviet writer and philosopher Semyon Milasevich using writings on candy wrappers and archival research.

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Translations
  • English: Lines of Fate: A Novel (1997)

Translations by Author

  • Works by Franz Kafka
  • Works by Stefan Zweig
  • Works by Elias Canetti
  • Works by Hermann Hesse
  • Works by Thomas Mann

Translations of Works

  • Lines of Fate (English)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
combination of realism and postmodernism

Legacy

Russian novelist recognized internationally as the first winner of the Russian Booker Prize.