{{Short description|Russian writer and journalist (1966-2025)}} {{family name hatnote|Lvovich|Chizhov|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} thumb|Chizhov in 2017 '''Yevgeny Lvovich Chizhov''' ({{Langx|ru|Евге́ний Льво́вич Чижо́в}}; 29 October 1966 – 11 August 2025) was a Russian writer and journalist.
== Life and career == Chizhov was born in Moscow on 29 October 1966. In 1988, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Евгений Чижов — Новая карта русской литературы |url=http://www.litkarta.ru/russia/moscow/persons/chizhov-e/ |access-date=11 August 2025 |website=litkarta.ru}}</ref> He briefly lived in Germany for three years before returning to work as a journalist and translator in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Евгений Чижов — Журнальный зал |url=https://magazines.gorky.media/authors/c/evgenij-chizhov.html |access-date=11 August 2025 |website=magazines.gorky.media}}</ref>
In 1997, he published his first story in ''Solo.'' In 2000, he published a story titled ''The Dark Past of the Man of the Future'' in ''October'' which went on to be published as a separate book. His novel, ''Translation from the Interlinear'' (2013), was a finalist for the Yasnaya Polyana and Big Book awards.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 December 2022 |title=Главная |url=https://bigbook.ru/ |access-date=11 August 2025 |website=Национальная литературная премия «Большая книга» |language=ru}}</ref>
In 2020, he received the Yasnaya Polyana Prize for the book ''The Collector of Paradise''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Евгений Чижов завоевал премию «Ясная Поляна» |url=https://tass.ru/kultura/9804739 |access-date=11 August 2025 |website=TACC|language=ru}}</ref>
Chizhov died on 11 August 2025, at the age of 58, after drowning in the Baltic Sea.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Умер писатель Евгений Чижов |url=https://tass.ru/kultura/24756735 |access-date=11 August 2025 |website=TACC |language=ru}}</ref>
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