{{short description|Russian writer}} {{infobox person |name= Andrei Volos |native_name = Андрей Волос |native_name_lang= ru |image=Volos Andrey.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|8|4|df=y}} | birth_place =Stalinabad, Soviet Union |awards = 30px|link=State Prize of the Russian Federation {{small|(2000)}} |alma_mater = Gubkin Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry |occupation= Writer }}
'''Andrei Germanovich Volos''' ({{langx|ru|Андрей Германович Волос}}; born 4 August 1955) is a Russian writer.<ref name=elkost>[http://www.elkost.com/authors/volos Андрей Волос], at the literary agency ELKOST website</ref>
His first novel ''{{ill|Khurramabad (novel)|ru|Хуррамабад|lt=Khurramabad}}'' received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts for year 2000.<ref name=fraward>{{wikisourcelang-inline|ru|Указ Президента РФ от 06.06.2001 № 655}}</ref>
==Biography== Born in Stalinabad (Dushanbe), Tajik SSR in the family of a candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences German Stepanovich Volos. Graduated from the Gubkin Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry, specializing in "industrial geophysics" (1977).<ref name="автоссылка3">{{Cite web |url=https://litinstitut.ru/content/volos-andrey-germanovich |title=Волос Андрей Германович // Литинститут. |access-date=2023-11-21 |archive-date=2023-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121051942/https://litinstitut.ru/content/volos-andrey-germanovich |url-status=live }}</ref>
Returned to Dushanbe, where he was engaged in translations of Tajik poetry. In 1979, he debuted with his own poems in the magazine "Pamir".
His first book, a poetry collection "Old Highway", was published in 1988.
Until 1994, he worked in Moscow as a geophysicist and programmer, was engaged in real estate activities, and twice entered the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.<ref name="автоссылка2">{{Cite web |url=https://ria.ru/20131204/981976359.html |title=Книга Андрея Волоса «Возвращение в Панджруд» стала лауреатом литературной премии за лучший роман года «Русский Букер» // РИА Новости. — 4.12.2013. |access-date=2023-11-20 |archive-date=2023-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120043033/https://ria.ru/20131204/981976359.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1986, he debuted as a prose writer, publishing his first story in the magazine, in 1989 his collection of short stories and novellas "Team 22/19" was published.<ref name="автоссылка2" />
In 1991 he was accepted into the Union of Soviet Writers.<ref name="автоссылка3" />
His first novel, Khurramabad (2000), received the Russian State Prize, as well as the Antibooker, Moscow-Penne, and Znamya magazine awards.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite book|author= Огрызко, Вячеслав Вячеславович|title= Кто сегодня делает литературу в России|issue=1 |place= Москва|publisher= Литературная Россия|year= 2006 |pages= 87–89|isbn = 5780900499}}</ref>
In his novel, The Winner (2008), the writer recreated the circumstances of the storming of the presidential palace in Kabul.<ref name="автоссылка1">[http://book-hall.ru/quotzhivoe-slovo-o-voinequot Живое слово о войне: критический обзор современной российской военной прозы] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119185506/http://book-hall.ru/quotzhivoe-slovo-o-voinequot}} / Сост. А. Кузечкин. Нижний Новгород: МУК Централизованная библиотечная система, 2010.</ref><ref name="автоссылка4">[https://dzen.ru/a/Yi3-1RmC3BUeVvnz Книги об Афганской войне: 4 художественных и 1 документальная // Дзен. — 13.03.2022.]</ref> The hero of the novel, Return to Panjrud (2013), is the great Tajik and Persian poet Rudaki.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://rg.ru/2013/10/07/volos.html |title=''Рахаева Ю''. Андрей Волос: Задача литературы не описание, а коммуникация // Российская газета. — 7.10.2013. |date=6 October 2013 |access-date=2023-11-19 |archive-date=2023-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119195206/https://rg.ru/2013/10/07/volos.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
His works have been translated into English, German,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ng.ru/ng_exlibris/2000-07-06/1_hammurabad.html |title=''Кукулин И''. Плов и проза в межкультурном контексте // Независимая газета. — 6.07.2000. |access-date=2023-11-22 |archive-date=2023-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122072642/https://www.ng.ru/ng_exlibris/2000-07-06/1_hammurabad.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and Mongolian.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://litinstitut.ru/content/v-mongolii-predstavili-antologiyu-sovremennogo-russkogo-rasskaza |title=В Монголии представили антологию современного русского рассказа // Литинститут. — 29.05.2021. |access-date=2023-11-22 |archive-date=2023-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122073558/https://litinstitut.ru/content/v-mongolii-predstavili-antologiyu-sovremennogo-russkogo-rasskaza |url-status=live }}</ref>
He is a member of the Moscow Writers' Union,<ref name="автоссылка2" /> the PEN Club, and the public council of the Novy Mir magazine. He is a professor of literary craftsmanship at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.<ref name="автоссылка3" />
He lives in Moscow.
==Novels== * Khurramabad «Хуррамабад», 2000 (the Tajik spelling of "-abad" is used in translation because the novel alludes to Dushanbe) * Real Estate «Недвижимость», 2001 * Maskaw Mecca «Маскавская Мекка», 2003 * Animator «Аниматор», 2005 * The Victor «Победитель», 2008 * Return to Panjrud «Возвращение в Панджруд», 2013
==Awards== Writer's literary awards include:<ref name=elkost/> *2013: Russian Booker award, for ''Return to Panjrud'' *2013: Russian Student Booker award, for ''Return to Panjrud'' *2013: Ivan Bunin literary award *2001: State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts, Russia for 2000, for Khurramabad<ref name=fraward/> *2000: ''Novy Mir'' magazine award, Russia for Khurramabad published in the magazine *1998: Anti-Booker Prize, Russia, for the manuscript of Khurramabad *1998: Moscow Penne Award, Italy, for a series of stories upon which ''Khurramabad'' was to be based
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