Alexander Karasyov


Alexander Karasyov is a Russian writer living in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Biography

Alexander Karasyov was born in Krasnodar, Russia, in 1971. He received degrees in history and law from the Kuban State University and worked as a mechanic, engineer, teacher, and legal advisor. He served in the army, taking part in the fights in Chechnya.
Since 2003 he has been published in literary journals. He was awarded the Bunin Prize and the Second O. Henry Prize "Dary Volhvov" . He is the author of the books "The Chechen Stories" and "Traitor".
Alexander Karasyov, like Arkady Babchenko and Zakhar Prilepin, is considered a representative of the Russian "New Realism" movement of the 21st century, continuing the tradition of the "lieutenant prose" of the 1960s and 1970s and military prose of the 1990s.

Books

In his Chechen Stories and Traitor, which are regarded as examples of modern Russian War Prose, Alexander Karasyov gives insights into life in the Russian army during the Second Chechen War. Presenting a modern war and modern warfare, the author does not rely on second hand information but on his own experience. The short stories are often as tragicomical as the Russian army itself and show Karasyov's characters not only in the war but also in their lives outside the war in their civilian life, or their so-called "life in peace".

Literary magazines

Alexander Karasyov's stories and essays have been published in the following Russian literary magazines: Novy mir , Oktyabr' , Friendship of
Peoples ', Kontinent ', Neva ', Ural ', Nash sovremennik ', Belskie prostory'' '.

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