Pyotr Markovich Aleshkovsky

ピョートル・マールコヴィチ・アレシュコフスキー

Profile

Gender: Male
Born: 1957-09-22 （Moscow）
Nationality: Russia
Languages: Russian
Residence History: Moscow

Career

Occupations: writer, historian, broadcaster, television presenter, journalist, archaeologist
Active Years: 1979-
Nominations: 1994 Booker nomination (Skunk: A Life), 1996 Booker nomination (Vladimir Chigrintsev), 2006 Booker and Big Book nomination (A Fish)

Education

Institution	Faculty	Department	Degree	Period	Country
Moscow State University	—	History	歴史学の学位	—	Russia

Moscow State University

History

Degree: 歴史学の学位

Year of Graduation: 1979

Country: Russia

Awards

Year	Award	Work	Category	Organization	Result
2016	Russian Booker Prize	The Citadel	—	—	winner

Russian Booker Prize

2016

Work: The Citadel

Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Russian Booker Prize 4 appearances

Works

Major Works

The Citadel

novel

Russian Booker Prize-winning novel.

Russian worldview

Style & Themes

Literary Style: Gothic literatureliterary realismfairy taleshistorical narrationshumour

Legacy

Russian writer who won the 2016 Russian Booker Prize for The Citadel. His works are richly descriptive and evocative of the uniquely Russian worldview, while tapping into universal human emotions.

Trivia

Uncle is Russian bard and writer Yuz Aleshkovsky.
Ex-wife is Tamara Eidelman, former father-in-law Natan Eidelman.
Son is photojournalist Dmitry Aleshkovsky.