Boris Akunin

Olga Sobolev (London School of Economics)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born c. 20 May 1956
Activity c. 1998-c.

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Russia

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Literary Critic/ Historian
Playwright / Dramatist
Translator

Resources

Akunin's Works

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Boris Akunin (born 20 May 1956) is a pen-name of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, who has also written as Anatolii Brusnikin and appeared in the press under the assumed female name of Anna Borisova. Georgian by origin, Akunin has been living in Moscow since 1958 and therefore sees himself as a representative of the Russian literary tradition, coloured, perhaps, by his strong interest in Japanese language and culture, which was the main subject of his university degree. For a number of years he worked as a deputy editor of the

Inostrannaia literatura

(

Foreign Literature

) journal, but left in October 2000 to pursue a career as a fiction writer. His literary pseudonym, he maintains, is not derived from the surname of the famous Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, but is a Japanese rendition of the…

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Citation: Sobolev, Olga. "Boris Akunin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 November 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13033, accessed 21 November 2024.]