Yury Buida
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Yury Vasilyevich Buida ({{langx|ru|Юрий Васильевич Буйда}}) (born 1954) is a Russian author. In 1994 his novel The Zero Train was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize.Russian Booker Prize website. His short story collection The Prussian Bride won the Apollon Grigoriev Prize in 1999, and its translation by Oliver Ready won the Rossica Translation Prize in 2005.Dedalus Books website.
Life and work
He was born in Znamensk in the Kaliningrad region of Russia.Chandler, Russian Short Stories, p. 374. He graduated from Kaliningrad University in 1982, then worked as a photojournalist and deputy editor for the regional newspaper. Since 1991, he has lived in Moscow and has written for several periodicals, including Izvestia. He is presently employed as an editor for the publishing division of Kommersant.
In his novel The Prussian Bride and to a lesser extent in the novella Königsberg, Buida explores the theme of the "complex attitudes of the Russian residents of the Kaliningrad region to the Prussian past".{{cite journal |last= Blacker|first= Uilleam|date= 2015|title= Writing from the Ruins of Europe: Representing Kaliningrad in Russian Literature from Brodsky to Buida|url= https://www.academia.edu/17302229/Writing_from_the_Ruins_of_Europe_Representing_Kaliningrad_in_Russian_Literature_from_Brodsky_to_Buida|journal= Slavonic and East European Review|volume= 93|issue= 4|pages= 601–625|access-date=24 February 2017}}
English translations
- The Zero Train, (novel), Dedalus, 2001.
- The Prussian Bride, (novel), Dedalus, 2002.
- Sinbad the Sailor, (story), from Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Penguin Classics, 2006.
- More and More Angels and The Samurai's Dream, (stories), from 50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories, Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Notes
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References
- {{cite book| last=Chandler | first=Robert | title=Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida | publisher=Penguin Classics | year=2005| isbn=0-140-44846-2 }}
- {{cite web | title=Dedalus Books – Yury Buida | url = http://www.dedalusbooks.com/catalog.php?s=4&id=82 | access-date = 2009-02-05 }}
- {{cite web | title=Russian Booker Prize, 1994 | url = http://www.russianbooker.org/archive/1994/ | access-date = 2009-02-05 }}
External links
- [http://buida.ru/ Author's home page]
- [https://www.youtube.com/yuribuida Author's YouTube channel]
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Category:Russian male novelists
Category:Russian male short story writers
Category:Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University alumni
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