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Yury Buida

b. 1954

Russian novelist and short story writer

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Born 1954. Yury Buida is a Russian writer, prose writer, journalist, editing staff and short story writer.

Yury Vasilyevich Buida (born 1954) is a Russian author. In 1994 his novel The Zero Train was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize. His short story collection The Prussian Bride won the Apollon Grigoriev Prize in 1999, and its translation by Oliver Ready won the Rossica Translation Prize in 2005.

Life and work He was born in Znamensk in the Kaliningrad region of Russia. He graduated from Kaliningrad University in 1982, then worked as a photojournalist and deputy editor for the regional newspaper. Since 1991, he has lived in Moscow and has written for several periodicals, including Izvestia. He is presently employed as an editor for the publishing division of Kommersant.

In his novel The Prussian Bride and to a lesser extent in the novella Königsberg, Buida explores the theme of the "complex attitudes of the Russian residents of the Kaliningrad region to the Prussian past".

English translations The Zero Train, (novel), Dedalus, 2001. The Prussian Bride, (novel), Dedalus, 2002. Sinbad the Sailor, (story), from Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Penguin Classics, 2006. More and More Angels and The Samurai's Dream, (stories), from 50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories, Academic Studies Press, 2011.

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Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
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Yury Vasilyevich Buida

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Who is Yury Buida?

Russian novelist and short story writer

When was Yury Buida born?

Yury Buida was born on 29 August 1954 in Znamensk.

What is Yury Buida's occupation?

Yury Buida is a writer, prose writer, journalist, editing staff and short story writer.

What nationality is Yury Buida?

Yury Buida is Russian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Yury Buida

· Wikidata: Q1102223

· DBpedia: Yury Buida

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