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Zakhar Prilepin

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Zakhar Prilepin’s first book, Pathologies, about a member of the special services serving in Chechnya, draws on Prilepin’s own experiences in Chechnya in the 1990s and landed Prilepin on the short list of the 2005 National Bestseller Award. Prilepin’s next book, Sankya, a novel about a young man involved in radical political opposition, was shortlisted for the Booker and National Bestseller awards in 2006. Prilepin won the National Bestseller in 2008 for his Sin, a novel in stories that went on to win a special $100,000 prize in the Super National Bestseller award in 2011. Sin came out in English translation in 2012. Prilepin also writes nonfiction, including essay collections and a book about Soviet-era writer Leonid Leonov. Prilepin’s most recent books are The Black Monkey and Vosmerka, a book of eight stories that’s named for a model of the Russian Lada car.

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