Russian Booker Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 12 (2003) Winner
Rubén Gallego
ルベン・ガリェゴ
Rubén Gallego
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1968-09-20 （Soviet Union）
- Nationality
- Russia
- Languages
- Russian
- Residence History
- Soviet Union (orphanages) → Russia → Prague → Freiburg, Germany → United States → Israel
Career
- Occupations
- writer, computer specialist
- Active Years
- 2002-2024
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Russian Booker Prize | White on Black | — | Booker Prize Foundation | winner |
Russian Booker Prize
2003
Work:
White on Black
Organization:
Booker Prize Foundation
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
White on Black
2002 memoirMemoir detailing the author's harrowing childhood in Soviet orphanages after being born with severe cerebral palsy and separated from his family.
disabilityorphanage lifeSoviet societystruggle for survival
Translations
- French (2002) by Aurora Gallego Rodríguez and Joëlle Roche-Parfenov, Actes Sud/Solin
- Brazilian Portuguese (2004) by Luis Reyes Gil, Ediouro
- Vietnamese (2005) by Vũ Thư Hiên
- Swedish (2005) by Ola Wallin, Ersatz
- Lithuanian (2005) by Andrius Šiuša
- Polish (2005) by Katarzyna Maria Janowska, Wydawnictwo Znak
- Finnish (2006) by Teemu Kaskinen, Sammakko
- Icelandic (2007) by Helga Brekkan, JPV
- Hebrew (2008) by S. Levin
- Czech (2009) by Denisa Šťastná, Revolver Revue
- Georgian (2009) by Nino Bekishvili
- Esperanto (2010) by Kalle Kniivilä
- Romanian (2019) by Liliana Radulescu and Nicoleta Silivestru
- Estonian (2020) by Valdek Kiiver
Bibliography
- White on Black
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- direct and raw descriptionsfrank narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- physical sufferingsocial exclusionhuman resilience
Health
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cerebral palsy1968年出生時から生涯Born without use of hands and feet, separated from family at age one and sent to state orphanage, yet survived to adulthood, married, and had children.
Legacy
Russian writer of Spanish ancestry who overcame severe cerebral palsy and Soviet orphanage hardships, winning the Russian Booker Prize for his memoir 'White on Black'. Now resides in Israel.
Trivia
- His grandfather, Ignacio Gallego, Spanish Communist leader, was ashamed of his disability and told his daughter the baby had died.
- Reunited with his mother in Prague in 2001 after 27 years.
- An abridged version was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in 2006.