Writer Alexander Kabakov: biography, creativity, photo

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Alexander Kabakov is a Russian writer and publicist, winner of many awards. This man is the author of such well-known works as "Defector" and "Blow for blow, or Kristapovich's Approach." The first novel was filmed and shown on TV during the legendary coup. The second work formed the basis for writing the script for the film Ten Years Without the Right to Correspondence. Few people know that in his youth, Alexander Kabakov did not think about a writing career and was engaged in work far from journalism.

Childhood and youth of the future writer

Alexander Kabakov is a writer whose biography began in 1943 in the city of Novosibirsk. It was in this city that his parents - Frida Isaakovna and Abram Yakovlevich - were evacuated during World War II. His father was a rocket officer, and as a child, Alexander lived in a typical military family, which often changed their place of residence. The future writer spent most of his childhood in such military towns as Orsha and Kapustin Yar. It was in the second town that the missile range was located at that time, where the father of the future publicist served.

Alexander Kabakov, a fairly famous writer today, in his childhood, according to him, was strongly dependent on the opinion of his father. Despite his clearly humanitarian inclinations, he decided to follow in the footsteps of Abram Yakovlevich. When the question arose of where to get higher education, the future publicist decided to enter the Dnepropetrovsk Institute. He chose the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, which, thanks to his unique memory, he graduated with great success.

Work far from journalism

Alexander Kabakov himself says that he turned out to be quite a good engineer. He worked for a long time in one of the rocket design bureaus and easily coped with his work. For almost 10 years he lived in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. He also played in KVN and tried to write some notes about jazz. Kabakov himself says that already at that time he felt the need to write and tried himself in literature. But in his youth, he often lacked the patience and endurance to finish sketches and complete his creations.

Writing career, work in journalism

Alexander Abramovich Kabakov, whose photo is posted in this article, radically changed his life by deciding to move to Moscow.

There he tried journalism, which brought him some fame. Almost 17 yearsstarting in 1972, he worked for the well-known newspaper Gudok. His subsequent career developed as follows:

• Since 1988, he has been working in the Moscow News publication, where he was hired as an observer, and eventually became executive secretary and deputy editor-in-chief.
• Since 1999, Alexander Abramovich Kabakov has been working at the Kommersant publishing house. Initially, he performs the duties of a special correspondent, and eventually becomes the head of the department.
• In the period since 2000, he simultaneously acts as a columnist in the "Capital Evening Newspaper" and works in the magazines "New Eyewitness" and "Sacvoyage SV".

For the first time, readers were able to learn about Kabakov as an author only in 1975. In Literaturnaya Gazeta, his humorous stories began to be published, which were a success. In total, about 100 such stories were published in various newspapers. And only 13 years after the first writing debut, Alexander Abramovich published his legendary novel, the appearance of which in literary circles became a real event.

The novel that brought fame

Kabakov says that, since 1980, he tried to write serious material, but he clearly understood: no one would publish his work. In his opinion, novels, novellas and short stories, which he mostly wrote for his own pleasure, could not interest a wide range of readers.

In June 1989, one of these novels was published under the title "Defector". The work was published in the Art of Cinema magazine, and after that Alexander Kabakov gained wide popularity. This novel was a discovery not only in professional literature. He gained immense popularity among ordinary people.

Nobody could have expected such an enchanting success, the book sold over a million copies. Such attention to the work was explained by the fact that the release of the novel coincided with the mood that prevailed in society. Many realized that the Soviet Union would soon disappear, and it was not entirely clear how to live on and what awaits a great country in the future.

Kabakov successfully managed to model in his novel the subsequent development of events and the formation of a new society. The plot of "The Unreturned" is that one of the scientists has a special gift - he can be transported into the future. Having learned about this ability, representatives of the secret services come to him and wish to use information from the future to adjust the current policy. Thus, the fate of Moscow is modeled in the book, the events of 1993 are described.

The success of the novel was so overwhelming that Radio Liberty staged a play based on it, and later it was used for the film script. By some irony of fate, it was this tape that was shown on television on the day of the putsch. Renowned publishers from 10 different countries have bought the rights to publish this novel.

List of works

After the publication of The Unreturned, Alexander Abramovich Kabakov became a recognizable and popular author. Amonghis most famous works can be distinguished:

• "Aksenov";
• "The Adventures of a Real Man";
• "Knowingly false fabrications";
• "The Last Hero";
• "The Writer";
• “Everything will be fixed”;
• "Fugitive";
• "Late Guest";
• "Imposter".

Prizes and awards

This most talented author was recognized not only by a wide range of ordinary readers. His works have received many awards and prizes, and Kabakov has also won numerous awards.

In different periods of time he was marked:

• Golden Calf, Triumph and Moskovsky Komsomolets awards.
• Literary Newspaper Award.
• Prose of the Year Award (received in 2005).
• Big Book Award.
• Prize them. Ivan Bunin.
• Big award to them. Apollon Grigoriev.

Extraordinary work

Kabakov's success is explained by many by the author's peculiar style. In most of his works, there is a common everyday life, which is close and understandable to every reader. At the same time, he very easily combines this simple routine with mystical prophecies and fantasy. The author successfully works in various genres - from romance novels to political thrillers and action films.

For example, his work “Luggage storage: a philistine book” tells about simple things (such as a hat) that we use at certain moments in life, and sometimesable to tell about an entire era.

One of the last works that made people talk about Kabakov was the book "Aksenov" written jointly with Yevgeny Popov. It contains various memoirs, rare documents, testimonies and unknown stories that are designed to debunk stereotypes about Aksenov himself and his work.

Today's life of a writer

Today, Alexander Abramovich works in journalism and is working on his new works. Sometimes he comments on ongoing political events, has his own opinion, but prefers not to interfere directly in politics. He considers the overthrow of the communist system to be one of the main achievements of the Russian people, and he is glad that, despite frequent thoughts about emigration from the USSR, he nevertheless remained in his homeland.