Gennadiy Prashkevich

Gennadiy Martovich Prashkevich (Russian: Генна́дий Ма́ртович Прашке́вич; born May 16, 1941, in Pirovskoye, Krasnoyarsk Krai) is a Russian science fiction writer, critic, editor, translator and International PEN member. He won the Aelita Prize (1994) and Garin-Mikhaylovsky Prize (1999). He is also a poet, translator and essayist.[1]

Prashkevich graduated from Tomsk University and participated in various geological and paleontological expeditions to Ural, Kuzbass, Yakutia, Far East and Kamchatka. As a science fiction writer Prashkevich debuted with the story Ostrov Tumanov (The Island of Mists) in 1957, having close ties with Ivan Yefremov by that time.[2]

Works

  • Razorvanoye chudo (The Torn Miracle, 1978)
  • Pyat kostrov rombom (Five Bonfires In A Rhomb, 1989)
  • Shpion protiv alkhimikov (A Spy Versus Alchemists, 1994)
  • Shkatulka rytsarya (The Knight's Casket, 1996)

Verse books

  • Posvyashcheniya (The Dedications, 1992)
  • Spor s dyavolom (A Dispute With Devil, 1996)

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.