Anatoly Kurchatkin

Anatoly Kurchatkin was born in Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg. He graduated from the Moscow Literary Institute in 1972 and his eagle eye has been chronicling the changes in Russian society ever since. Critics describe him as ‘a student of human behaviour with a firm belief in basic principles of human decency’. A master of dialogue, his writing has the resonance of parable.

He has won numerous prizes over the years, and his novels have been dramatized by the Moscow Art Theatre and turned into feature films. One of the most European of contemporary Russian writers, his work has been translated into ten languages. -- russianwriting.com