Brisbane: From the award-winning author of Laurus

About Eugene Vodolazkin

Eugene Vodolazkin was born in Kyiv Ukraine. His second novel Laurus won both of Russias major literary awards the National Big Book Award and the Yasnaya Polyana Book Award and was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize and the Russian Booker Prize. His debut novel Solovyov and Larionov was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and the Big Book Award. A third critically acclaimed novel The Aviator has also been translated into English. Vodolazkin was the 2019 winner of the Solzhenitsyn Prize. He was born in Kiev in 1964 and has worked in the department of Old Russian Literature at Pushkin House since 1990. He is an expert in medieval history and folklore and has numerous academic books and articles to his name. The author lives with his family in St. Petersburg Russia. Marian Schwartz translates Russian classic and contemporary fiction history biography criticism and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated the New York Times bestseller The Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov Ivan Goncharov Yuri Olesha Mikhail Lermontov and Leo Tolstoy. Her most recent publications are Polina Dashkovas Madness Treads Lightly Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's March 1917: The Red Wheel Node III Book 1 and Leonid Yuzefovichs Horsemen of the Sands. She is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association and the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and numerous prizes including the 2014 Read Russia Prize for Contemporary Russian Literature the 2016 Soeurette Diehl Frasier Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2018 Linda Gaboriau Award for Translation from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.