Andreï Volos

Andrei Germanovich Volos (; born 4 August 1955) is a Russian writer.

His first novel received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts for year 2000.

Biography Born in Stalinabad (Dushanbe), Tajik SSR in the family of a candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences German Stepanovich Volos. Graduated from the Gubkin Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry, specializing in "industrial geophysics" (1977).

Returned to Dushanbe, where he was engaged in translations of Tajik poetry. In 1979, he debuted with his own poems in the magazine "Pamir".

His first book, a poetry collection "Old Highway", was published in 1988.

Until 1994, he worked in Moscow as a geophysicist and programmer, was engaged in real estate activities, and twice entered the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

In 1986, he debuted as a prose writer, publishing his first story in the magazine, in 1989 his collection of short stories and novellas "Team 22/19" was published.

In his novel, The Winner (2008), the writer recreated the circumstances of the storming of the presidential palace in Kabul. The hero of the novel, Return to Panjrud (2013), is the great Tajik and Persian poet Rudaki.

His works have been translated into English, German, and Mongolian.

He is a member of the Moscow Writers' Union, the PEN Club, and the public council of the Novy Mir magazine. He is a professor of literary craftsmanship at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

He lives in Moscow.

Novels Khurramabad «Хуррамабад», 2000 (the Tajik spelling of "-abad" is used in translation because the novel alludes to Dushanbe) Real Estate «Недвижимость», 2001 Maskaw Mecca «Маскавская Мекка», 2003 Animator «Аниматор», 2005 The Victor «Победитель», 2008 Return to Panjrud «Возвращение в Панджруд», 2013

Awards Writer's literary awards include: 2013: Russian Booker award, for Return to Panjrud 2013: Russian Student Booker award, for Return to Panjrud 2013: Ivan Bunin literary award 2001: State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts, Russia for 2000, for Khurramabad 2000: Novy Mir magazine award, Russia for Khurramabad published in the magazine 1998: Anti-Booker Prize, Russia, for the manuscript of Khurramabad 1998: Moscow Penne Award, Italy, for a series of stories upon which Khurramabad was to be based