Summary Iskander F. A


Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (March 6, 1929, Sukhum, Abkhazia, USSR) is an outstanding Soviet and Russian prose writer and poet of Abkhaz origin.
Born in the family of the former owner of a brick factory of Iranian origin. In 1938, the writer’s father was deported from the USSR. He was brought up by his mother’s relatives in the village of Chegem.
He graduated from the Russian school in Abkhazia with a gold medal. I entered the Library Institute in Moscow. After 3 years of study he transferred to the Literary Institute. AM Gorky, who graduated in 1954.
He worked as a journalist in Kursk and Bryansk. In 1955 he became editor in the Abkhaz branch of Gosizdat. The first book of poems “Mountain trails” was published in Sukhum in 1957, at the end of the 1950s it began to be printed in the journal “Youth”. Fame to the writer came in 1966 after the publication of the story “Constellation Kozlotura.”
The author of the novels

“Sandro from Chegem”, “Man and his surroundings”; stories: “Man’s parking”, “Rabbits and boas”, “Constellation Goat”, “Sofichka” and other works.
The plot of many of his works unfolds in the village of Chegem, where the author spent much of his childhood.
Iskander-prose writer is rich in imagination. Iskander prefers the first-person narrative, acting as a narrator who is clearly close to the author himself, who willingly and far deviates from the topic, who, among subtle observations, does not miss the occasion with humor and critically speak about modernity.
– Wolfgang Kazak
In 1979 he participated in the creation of the almanac “Metropol” (the story “The Little Giant of Big Sex”). He was a member of the jury in the final game of the KVN Major League in 1987.
In 2006, he participated in the creation of the book Autograph of the Century.
Currently he lives in Moscow.


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Summary Iskander F. A