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Zakhar Prilepin was born in 1975 near Ryazan. After completing his philology studies he worked initially as a packer, a security guard and journalist before joining a specialist military unit. As a captain he took part in anti-terror deployments in Chechnya in 1996 and 1999. Having participated in two writing seminars in 2004 (with Roman Senchin and Leonid Yuzefovich amongst others) he made his breakthrough as an author.
In line with Kasparov and Limonov Prilepin is a political activist stemming from the movement THE OTHER RUSSIA, a coalition of Russian political parties, human rights organizations, and pro-democracy activists.
Prilepin is writing for major Russian newspapers and journals, among them Argumenty i Fakty, Ogonjok, Literaturnaya Gazeta and others. Recently Prilepin has become director of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Novaya Gazeta (the newspaper Anna Politkovskaya was working for). Prilepin is married and has two sons. He lives in Nizhny Novgorod.
Foreign rights: Germany (Matthes&Seitz), Italy (Voland), France (Des Syrtes), Poland (Czarne), China (People's Literature)
