- Zakhar Prilepin
Zakhar Prilepin ( _ru. Захар Прилепин, real name Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Lavlinskiy , _ru. Евгений Николаевич Лавлинский ; born
July 7 ,1975 ) is aRussia n writer, political dissident, and a member of Russia's unregisteredNational Bolshevik Party since 1996.After completing his
philology studies he worked initially as a packer, a security guard and a journalist before joining a special military unit. As a captain he took part in anti-terror deployments in Chechnya in 1996 and 1999. Having participated in two writing seminars in 2004 (withRoman Senchin andLeonid Yuzefovich amongst others) he became an author. Prilepin is married and has two sons. He lives inNizhny Novgorod .Prilepin was one of the organizers ofDissenters March inNizhny Novgorod . In 2008 he wonRussian National Bestseller Award for his book "Sin" ( _ru. Грех)Other books
*Санькя - Sankya, Novel. Ad Marginem, Moscow 2006, 280 pages
*Патологии - Patologii, The Pathologies, Novel. Andreevsky Flag, Moscow 2005, 250 pagesOnline texts
* [http://lib.ru/MEMUARY/CHECHNYA/prilepin.txt Патологии -журнальный вариант ] ru icon
External links
* [http://www.sptimes.ru/story/26279 "The St.Petersburg Times Review "]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/world/europe/24putin.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin "Putin’s Iron Grip on Russia Suffocates Opponents -The New York Times"]
* [http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts/2008/06/11/368241.htm "The Moscow Times review "]
* [http://www.nibbe-wiedling.de/prilepin/english/prilepin_en.htm "Literary Agency Nibbe and Wiedling- information about the author "]
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