Zakhar Prilepin

Zahar Prilepin (Russian: Захар Прилепин, real name Yevgenii Nikolaevich Prilepin, Russian: Евгений Николаевич Прилепин; born July 7, 1975 in Ryazan Oblast) is a Russian writer, political dissident, and a member of Russia's unregistered National 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 (with Roman Senchin and Leonid Yuzefovich amongst others) he became an author.

In 2008 he won the Russian National Bestseller Award for his book "Sin" (Russian: «Грех»).

In 2009 he was awarded with a Silver medal of the Bunin Prize for his book "TerraTartarara: It concerns Me Personally" (2009) (Russian: «TerraTartarara: Это касается лично меня»).

Prilepin was one of the organizers of the Dissenters March in Nizhny Novgorod. He is also one of the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin must go", published on 10 March 2010.

Prilepin is married and has two sons and daughter. He lives in Nizhny Novgorod.

Other books

• Санькя - Sankya, Novel. Ad Marginem, Moscow 2006, 280 pages
• Патологии - Patologii, The Pathologies, Novel. Andreevsky Flag, Moscow 2005, 250 pages

Online texts

• Патологии -журнальный вариант (Russian)

External links

• Zahar Prilepin - official website
• "The St.Petersburg Times Review "
• "Putin’s Iron Grip on Russia Suffocates Opponents -The New York Times"
• "The Moscow Times review "
• "Literary Agency Nibbe and Wiedling- information about the author "