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Fazil Iskander

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Born: March 05 1929

Died: 3030 07 20162016

aka Фазиль Искандер

He was arguably the most famous Abkhaz writer, renowned in the former Soviet Union for his vivid descriptions of Caucasian life, mostly written in Russian. He has written various stories, most famously "Zashita Chika", which star a crafty and likable young boy named "Chik".

The most famous intellectual of Abkhazia, he distanced himself from the Abkhaz secessionist strivings in the late 1980s and criticised both Georgian and Abkhaz communities of Abkhazia for their ethnic prejudices. He warned that Abkhazia could become a new Nagorno-Karabakh.

He was probably best known in the English speaking world for Sandro of Chegem, a picaresque novel that recounts life in a fictional Abkhaz village from the early years of the 20th century until the 1970s, which evoked praise for the author as "an Abkhazian Mark Twain." Mr. Iskander's humor, like Mark Twain's, has a tendency to sneak up on you instead of hitting you over the head. This rambling, amusing and ironic work has been considered as an example of magic realism, although Iskander himself said he "did not care for Latin American magic realism in general". A section of the novel dealing with Sandro's encounter with Joseph Stalin was made into the Russian film Baltazar's Feasts, or a Night with Stalin in 1989.

Iskander lived in Moscow and was a writer for the newspaper Kultura.

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Fazil Iskander

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Books from Fazil Iskander

Rabbits and Boa Constrictors

Созвездие козлотура

Софичка

Старата къща под кипариса

The Goatibex Constellation

The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules

آرامگاه لنین

Стоянка человека

The Gospel According to Chegem

Contemporary Russian Prose

وقتی من یابنده ای خوش شانس بودم

Tolv noveller fra Sovjetunionen

Человек и его окрестности

Рассказы

Chik and His Friends

Тринадцатый подвиг Геракла (сборник)

Яблоня, шелестящая под ветерком

Çegemli Sandro Dayı

Собрание сочинений в шести томах

Oh, Marat!