Modern Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin. Biography

Now Zakhar Prilepin is known as a writer and columnist, actor and TV presenter, musician and politician. He writes for LiveJournal, maintains a Youtube channel and edits the Free Press website. At the same time, he does not suffer from the pangs of creativity and "does not know what inspiration is." The main chagrin is the lack of time: children grow up, and the moments of their growing up are missed.

In such a cycle, Prilepin draws strength from the fact that he has no "pretensions to life."

“I’m always happy with everything. I’ve been like this since childhood. And the logic of the higher forces that bestow us with all this is probably the following: if you are happy, then go on, here’s a little more strength for you.”

Childhood and youth

Zakhar Prilepin was born in July 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Ryazan Region. At birth, the boy was named Eugene. The Prilepin family was not rich: father Nikolai worked as a history teacher at school, and mother Tatyana worked as a nurse in a hospital. Therefore, the future writer had to start working from an early age.

Close people, Zakhar later recalled, are so colorful and he loved them so much that he endowed the heroes of the works with their inherent features. In the story "Forest", the father is written off from Prilepin Sr., the grandfather from "Sin" is the author's grandfather, Semyon.

In 1986, the family moved to the Nizhny Novgorod region, to the city of Dzerzhinsk, where the parents were given an apartment. Prilepin's mother got a job at the Korund chemical plant. At the age of 16, the boy began working as a loader in a bakery. A year later, his father died, after his death, the guy had a hard time. After graduating from school, he changed his place of residence to Nizhny Novgorod, after which he joined the army in 1994, but was subsequently discharged.

Then Prilepin entered the police school - tall (185 cm), a strong young man served in the riot police.

In parallel with the work, the future writer studied at the philological faculty of the Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod. However, it was not destined to continue his studies then - in 1996, Prilepin was sent to Chechnya. After another 3 years, Zakhar took part in the hostilities already in another Caucasian region - in Dagestan.

In the 90s, Prilepin did not have enough riot police salary, and he worked as a security guard in nightclubs. He worked as a security guard and a handyman. In 1999, the man graduated from the university and left the OMON.

Books and creativity

In 2000, in Nizhny Novgorod, Prilepin began working in the local newspaper Delo, after which he quickly became a fairly popular journalist. A year after being hired, Zakhar became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

The first opuses of Prilepin the writer began to appear in 2003, then they were poetic works. At this time, the first novel "Pathology" was written, in which the theme of the Chechen war runs like a red thread. At first, it was printed piece by piece in magazines, and was published as a separate book in 2005.

Since 2006, various publishing houses have published the works “Sankya”, “Sin”, “Boots full of hot vodka”, “I came from Russia”, “Terra Tartarara. This concerns me personally” “Name day of the heart. Conversations with Russian Literature.

Prilepin was educated at the School of Public Policy, which was founded by the Open Russia Foundation. In 2007, the writer became one of the co-founders of the "People" movement, whose ideology was "democratic nationalism".

In the same year, Zakhar Prilepin started a blog on the open platform LiveJournal. Here the writer boldly covers topics of interest to him, writes about his personal work, literature and politics. Zakhar does not hide his firm position on many acute political issues.

The year 2009 was marked for Prilepin by receiving the silver medal of the Bunin Prize for the collection “TerraTartarara. This applies to me personally." Then Zakhar was appointed secretary of the Russian Union of Writers. In addition, he began his career as a TV presenter, working in the PostTV program.

In 2010, Zakhar Prilepin signed an appeal to the Russian authorities from the opposition and in an interview explained that he considers the system, and "the whole system needs to be changed in order to get an open political space." The activist met with the President of Russia personally more than once, talking with him on various topics, including political ones.

Zakhar loves Russian rock and sometimes writes music himself. In 2011, he made his debut with the album "Seasons", recorded with his own group "Elefunk" on the label "Midday Music".

In the same 2011, the well-known men's magazine GQ named Prilepin the writer of the year. At the same time, the author was awarded the Bronze Snail Prize for the novel The Black Monkey.

In 2012, Zakhar wrote a manual on modern literature "Book Reader" and published stories in the collection "Eight".

In 2014, the novel The Abode brought Zakhar Prilepin the prestigious Big Book Award, established by Russian business circles. The winners are selected by a jury of 100 people, including scientists and artists, journalists and public figures.

In 2015, the writer continued his television career. Zakhar undertook to host the musical show "Salt" on the REN TV channel, where he talked with popular Russian musicians on important social topics. 65 episodes went on the air, and at the beginning of 2016, Prilepin opened a new author's program "Tea with Zakhar" on the Orthodox channel Tsargrad TV. This project closed after a year.

“My programs on the channel were the most rated. That is why they tolerated me, with all my leftist agenda.”

Politics

Politics is a tedious business, Zakhar says, people are tired, and few people want to plunge into this swamp, but they feel that they are obliged. Prilepin's main interest was the Ukrainian question. The writer's blogs are mainly devoted to the situation in the Donbass.

In 2015, Prilepin took the post of adviser to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, in 2016 he began to participate in military clashes. The man became deputy commander of a special forces battalion for work with the personnel of the DPR army, where he later rose to the rank of major.

In the same year, Prilepin took part in a public discussion of political and social issues at the site of the Trend discussion club in St. Petersburg. Together with Zakhar, the famous translator spoke. Speakers agreed on many issues.

Zakhar Prilepin shared his views with Altai readers during joint press conferences with journalist and writer Sergei Shargunov in Barnaul.

In 2017, the media reported that Prilepin was tired of simply delivering humanitarian aid to the Donbass. The Russian writer gathered a battalion of local residents, "whom he knew where to look for." It was not without accusations of promoting mercenarism, when in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda the words were heard that "there is a turn of guys from Russia."

Prilepin responded to the press on LiveJournal that he did not announce conscription into the DPR army and did not invite people to the battalion, especially mercenaries. There is no such thing as an invitation.

“When it all started, in the spring of 2014, we launched the Interbrigade project and began to slowly supply volunteers here. First to Luhansk, then to Donetsk.” The idea that you need to create your own division was constantly present.

Prilepin also asked not to invite him to TV - he refused to give interviews, reproaching the media for misrepresenting his words and "arranging a farce." To prove his words, the man publishes on his blog links and excerpts from materials dedicated to him, where he is either called "Putin's agent", or they prophesy an early cleansing by the Russian authorities.

This social and political situation inspired the author to write a collection of biographies of writers who participated in various wars of the past centuries. The book was published in 2017 under the title Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature.

Critics responded to the release of the book and the fact that Prilepin continues to broadcast television, accusing him of hypocrisy, of a frivolous understanding of the war. The writer responded to these claims by saying that if he quits everything and fights quietly in the Donbass, then he, his battalion and his ideas will lose stable funding and a platform for statements, which will not be an “act” at all, as Prilepin’s opponents characterize.

Zakhar donates the money earned by creativity to charity. According to the writer, he has one and a half million requests for assistance to families affected by the conflict. Prilepin contributed to the large-scale music festival "Lava Fest" with the invitation of rappers, and Rich.

In addition to musicians, to tell Donetsk and Lugansk that Russia does not forget about them, they come - golden, according to Zakhar, guys.

Personal life

Information about Zakhar's personal life is stingy. He met his wife Maria Prilepin at the Faculty of Philology at Novosibirsk State University. Young people got married in the 3rd year. There are four children in the Prilepin family - Gleb, Kira, Ignat and Lilia.

Zakhar is an Orthodox Christian, he constantly goes to church, baptized children. The Prilepins live in Nizhny Novgorod, in a house on the banks of the Kerzhenets River. In November 2017, Zakhar and Maria got married in Donetsk.

In addition to "LJ", Zakhar uses

Russian writer, philologist, publicist.
Member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Known for his socio-political, humanitarian and military activities.

Evgeny Prilepin was born on July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Ryazan Region. His father was a school history teacher and his mother was a nurse. In 1986, the family moved to the Nizhny Novgorod region, to the city of Dzerzhinsk, where the parents were given an apartment. After graduating from high school, Prilepin moved to Nizhny Novgorod.

In 1994 he was called up for military service in the ranks of the Russian army, but was subsequently discharged. After serving in the army, he studied at the police school and served in the riot police. In parallel with the service, he studied at the philological faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. However, in 1996 he was sent to Chechnya to take part in hostilities, and in 1999 he took part in armed clashes in Dagestan.

In 1999, Prilepin graduated from the philological faculty of the Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod and left the service in the OMON. In 2000, he got a job as a journalist in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Delo. He published under many pseudonyms, the most famous of which is "Eugene Lavlinsky". In 2001 he became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The first works were published in 2003 in the newspaper Day of Literature. Then his works were published in Literaturnaya Gazeta, On the Edge and General Line, as well as in the magazines Sever, Friendship of Peoples, Roman-newspaper, Novy Mir, Russian Life, Aurora".

Prilepin was the editor-in-chief of the National Bolshevik newspaper of Nizhny Novgorod, People's Observer. Participated in the seminar for young writers "Moscow-Peredelkino" and in the IV, V, VI Forums of young writers of Russia in Moscow. He is considered one of the founders of modern Russian military prose, along with Alexander Karasev and Arkady Babchenko. Since July 2009, he has been the host of the No Country for Old Men program on the PostTV channel. Over the years, he led columns in the leading Russian media, including the magazines Story and Ogonyok.

Politically, Zakhar Prilepin has been a National Bolshevik since 1996, a coalition supporter and later a member of the unregistered Russian political party Other Russia, founded by Eduard Limonov. He took part in the organization of the Nizhny Novgorod "March of Dissent" on March 24, 2007. In 2007, he became a co-founder of the national-democratic movement "People". In June 2007, the founding conference of the movement and the first meeting of its political council were held in Moscow. Sergei Gulyaev, Alexei Navalny and Zakhar Prilepin became co-chairs of the movement.

In March 2010, Prilepin signed the appeal of the Russian opposition "Putin must go." As a way to save Russia, Prilepin called for "giving birth to as many Russian children as possible." In 2014, after the Crimean crisis, Prilepin rethought his attitude towards modern Russian power. In an interview on October 1, 2014, he announced a "personal truce in power" and the absence of "the slightest inducement to confrontation." This position was motivated by the changes taking place in Russia, about which he had been writing and dreaming since the mid-1990s.

As a rap artist, Zakhar Prilepin recorded a joint track with musicians from the group "25/17" for the album of their side project "Ice 9" - "Cold War" in 2011. The track was called "Kittens". A video was shot on it, in which the writer played the main role. In the same year, Prilepin assembled his own group, Elefank. On the label "Midday Music" the group released their debut album "Seasons". In total, three albums of the group were released. Separate songs on the albums along with Elefank are sung by Mikhail Borzykin, Konstantin Kinchev, Dmitry Revyakin, Alexander Sklyar and other rock performers.

In 2012, Prilepin acted as an actor, playing in the TV series Inspector Cooper. In 2013, he appeared in a small role in the film adaptation of his story The Eight. Since 2013, Prilepin has been recording joint tracks with rapper Rich, which are released on the musician's solo albums. The most famous tracks were "It's time to bring down" and "In the 91st". The song "It's time to bring down" caused a sharply negative reaction from liberal critics of the writer.

In October 2013, the author’s program “Prilepin” was aired on the Dozhd TV channel, the format of which involved meeting with the guest in the studio and talking on a topic set by the host of the program, Prilepin, at the end of the program, the guest had to present to the audience something from his work, such as a poem or a song.

In March 2014, he condemned Russian cultural figures who opposed the annexation of Crimea to Russia, and in September he visited the zone of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, as a military correspondent from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. His notes were published by a number of publications, for example, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and the Svobodnaya Pressa online publication, of which he has been the editor-in-chief since 2012.

Prilepin urged his readers to help Novorossiya. Three million rubles were collected in three days. Purchased items, provisions and medicines for the civilian population, as well as ammunition for the militias, Zakhar Prilepin drove himself in his car at the head of a convoy with humanitarian aid. In addition, at the invitation of Prilepin, musician Alexander Sklyar gave several concerts for the residents of Lugansk.

Having organized the next fundraising for humanitarian aid to Donbass in February 2015, by March he had collected more than 12 million rubles. A documentary film "Not someone else's turmoil" was filmed about this trip. In March, the 360° Podmoskovye TV channel joined the fundraising. As a result, another 2 million 120 thousand rubles were collected. With this and the money left over from the previous trip, medicines, food and other essential goods were purchased. In April, a humanitarian mission arrived in Novorossia. The cargoes were distributed according to collective applications and according to address lists.

Since November 2015, he has been the host of the musical TV show "Sol" on REN TV. Since January 2016 - host of the author's program "Tea with Zakhar" on Tsargrad TV. Prilepin is also an adviser to the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko. Since October 2016 - deputy commander of a special forces battalion for work with personnel of the DPR army, since November 2016 - with the rank of major.

In 2016, according to a poll by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, Zakhar Prilepin shared third place with Boris Akunin, Alexander Prokhanov and Viktor Pelevin as the “Writer of the Year in Russia”, and according to the Medialogy company, he became the most mentioned writer in the media, ahead of Andrey Usachev and Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Prilepin's works were published in English, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Armenian.

In the fall of 2016, the organizers of the Polish literary festival Konrad withdrew the invitation to Prilepin, with whom they wanted to discuss the problems of nationalism as an ideologically biased person. This happened after the appeal of Ukrainian writers, who compared the situation with the invitation of Anders Breivik.

In 2017, Prilepin joined the commemorative committee for the celebration of the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and on February 16, 2017, the SBU opened a criminal case against Prilepin in connection with his cooperation with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

Zakhar Prilepin is married. Today, the Prilepin family has four children - Gleb, Kira, Ignat and Lilia. After many years of marriage, the couple are still close. As the writer himself says, far from Masha, he is constantly bored. The writer calls the guarantee of a strong marriage "the highest bar of personal relationships and absolute trust." Prilepin's sister was married to the cousin of Vladislav Surkov, the former deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, whom the writer often met and called a relative.

Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin, better known under the pseudonyms Zakhar Prilepin and Evgeny Lavlinsky, was born on July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky District, Ryazan Region. His mother was a nurse in a rural hospital and his father was a history teacher.

Prilepin spent his childhood in Skopin, and in the mid-80s (according to Prilepin himself, "somewhere in 1986") his family moved to Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, where his parents got an apartment and quickly found work (mother began to work at the chemical plant "Korund"). At the age of 16, Prilepin himself began to work - he got a job as a loader in a bread store. When the young man was 17 years old and he was still studying at school number 10 in the city of Dzerzhinsk, his father died.

In 1994, Prilepin was drafted into the army. Details of his military service were not found (ed. note) - except for the mention that, according to some sources, the future writer was "commissioned for unknown reasons."

It is known that Prilepin studied at the Police School (in what years, it was not specified). In 1996, he began serving in the Special Purpose Police Detachment (OMON). As a commander of the OMON department in 1996 and 1999, he took part in armed operations on the territory of Chechnya and spent a total of six months there. Meanwhile, some observers who analyzed the writer's texts about the Chechen campaign aroused distrust about Prilepin as an riot policeman and the possibility of him getting the position of squad leader.

In parallel with his service in the riot police, Prilepin studied at the evening department of the philological faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky and lived "in two cities". According to some reports, he graduated from the university in 1999.

After the default of 1998, Prilepin, in his own words, began to lack the riot police salary to support his family, and sometimes he was forced to earn extra money as a bouncer in nightclubs. He did not hide the fact that in the last year of his work in the riot police "he took shifts on the Moscow highway, slowed down all the trucks from the Caucasus and took away watermelons, oranges, bananas from them, because there were only potatoes at home."

In 1999 (according to other sources - in 2000; it was also mentioned that 6 years after the start of work) Prilepin left the OMON and in 2000, together with his wife and son Gleb, moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where he began to write for one of the Nizhny Novgorod newspapers and made a quick career. In particular, he worked at the Political News Agency - Nizhny Novgorod. As a journalist, Prilepin used various pseudonyms, the most famous of which is Yevgeny Lavlinsky (sometimes it was noted in the media that Lavlinsky was his real name). Prilepin began to study literature later. His first publications - poetry - date back to 2003. In the same 2003, Prilepin wrote the novel "Patology" about the "second Chechen" war and began to look for an opportunity to publish it. The novel was first published in magazines, and in 2005 it was published as a separate book by the St. Andrew's flag publishing house.

Since 2006, various Russian publishing houses have published Prilepin's books "Sankya" (2006), "Sin" (2007), "Boots full of hot vodka: boy stories" (2008), "I came from Russia" (2008), " Terra Tartarara: This concerns me personally" (2008), "Name Day of the Heart: Conversations with Russian Literature" (2009) and others. By the summer of 2011, Prilepin had published 9 novels and compiled 4 anthologies. In addition, he wrote a biography of the writer Leonid Leonov for the series "Life of Remarkable People". Prilepin has won numerous awards, including "Faithful Sons of Russia" (2007, for the novel "Sin"), "Soldier of the Empire" (2008, for prose and journalism), "National Bestseller" (2008, for the novel " Sin") and the All-China Award "Best Foreign Novel" (2007, for the novel "Sankya"). In 2009, Prilepin became the secretary of the Writers' Union of Russia.

Best of the day

Prilepin did not leave journalistic activity either. As of 2011, he was a columnist for the magazines Ogonyok, Russkaya Zhizn and Medved, and was also the editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Novaya Gazeta. In addition, Prilepin was a member of the editorial board of the Friendship of Peoples magazine. Prilepin's journalism appeared in other publications, including the magazines "Sex in the city" and "Glamour".

Prilepin's works also became the object of critical speeches. So, in October 2008, the president of Alfa Bank, Pyotr Aven, wrote a negative review of the novel Sankya for the Russian Pioneer magazine, in which he indicated that Prilepin's heroes were engaged in revolutionary activities from idleness and unwillingness to work. Aven's article gave rise to a heated discussion in the press, which was devoted to a separate section on Prilepin's official website. Aven was not Prilepin's only critic. Writer Alexander Bushkovsky, who himself served in the Special Rapid Response Squad - SOBR, in the article "Rereading" Pathologies. "Nonsense and Oddities in Stories about the War", published in "Questions of Literature" in 2011, noted that the novel is not plausible in that regarding the details of the conduct of military operations. The terminology used by the author was also distrustful of the critic.

The media wrote about the radical left views of Prilepin. In 1996, he met the head of the unregistered National Bolshevik Party, Eduard Limonov, and in 1997 he joined the NBP. In June 2005, the NBP was liquidated as a public organization and excluded from the unified state register of legal entities, and in March 2007, the Moscow prosecutor's office additionally announced the suspension of the NBP's activities for violating the law "On countering extremist activity" by the Limonovites. Nevertheless, in an interview with the French edition of Liberation in 2009, Prilepin spoke of himself as a National Bolshevik. He especially emphasized that the leader of his party is a "prophet of freedom", who is not a supporter of violence and "has never shed a single drop of blood." In addition, the writer mentioned Limonov among the writers most revered by him, noting that his influence on literature "is comparable to the influence that Dostoevsky and Tolstoy had in their time."

It is known that Prilepin studied at one of the Schools of Public Policy, created in various regions of Russia by the Open Russia Charitable Foundation, founded by the head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It was not specified which School and in what years the writer studied (it is known that the Nizhny Novgorod Regional School of Public Policy was opened in the spring of 2005).

Prilepin was also mentioned as a member of the Other Russia coalition. In 2007, the writer became one of the organizers of the Nizhny Novgorod March of Dissent. In the same year, together with Alexei Navalny and Sergei Gulyaev, he founded the All-Russian public organization "People", which proclaimed its ideology "democratic nationalism" - the struggle for democracy and the rights of Russians (according to some reports, the organization ceased to exist already in 2008. By July The Other Russia coalition also ceased to exist in 2010. On its basis, on the initiative of Limonov, a party of the same name was created, which, however, could not be registered. Limonova, who became a member of this party, later called himself one of its most active figures in Nizhny Novgorod In 2011, in one of his interviews, Prilepin spoke about his inner need to participate in political life and that in Russia "a person who is a father of many children ... cannot be a member of United Russia, but must be physically present in the political space."

The writer met with Vladimir Putin several times in Novoogarevo when he was president of Russia. The conversation during the meeting of the head of state with writers was not only about literature, but also about politics. To sharp questions posed by Prilepin about Russia's relations with Georgia and Belarus, about Chechnya, about the situation of state employees and pensioners in Russia, Putin, according to the writer himself, answered "convincingly, but profoundly senseless."

In May 2011, Prilepin became the winner of the "Supernatsbest" award for the best prose of the decade, beating other contenders for this award - the writer Viktor Pelevin and the poet Dmitry Bykov. According to Prilepin, he gave part of the money received for Supernatsbest to the political prisoners of the National Bolsheviks, "helped several families," and planned to spend the rest on his family. In the same month, director Kirill Serebrennikov staged the play "Thugs" based on Prilepin's novel "Sankya". The writer spoke of this production, which he went to four times, as "incomparably good." In September 2011, Prilepin received the GQ men's magazine award in the Writer of the Year nomination.

The writer said that he likes all active and "wild" people who are not "state patriots", in particular, he mentioned the members of the art group "War". As for musical tastes, Prilepin separately noted his passion for Russian rock and the work of Boris Grebenshchikov. It was reported that Prilepin himself writes music. In his youth, he played in the rock band "Innonia", and in June 2011 he released an album recorded with the band "Elefunk" (also appeared in the press as "Elefank".

Prilepin repeatedly mentioned that writing for him is a way to feed his family. The writer is married (his wife also studied at the philological faculty of UNN), the couple has four children: Gleb, Ignat, Kira and Lilia, born on August 1, 2011. It was noted that Prilepin is an Orthodox Christian, regularly attends church, all his children are baptized. As of 2011, the writer lived in Nizhny Novgorod. It was reported that he has a house in the forest on the banks of the Kerzhenets River, where he likes to spend time with his family, St. Bernard Bumblebee and the cat Binya.

Prilepin has a sister, Lena, who lives with their mother in Dzerzhinsk. The media mentioned that Prilepin's relative is the first deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia, Vladislav Surkov. In addition, it was reported that Surkov and Prilepin grew up in the same city. The writer himself specified that he and Surkov "are not blood relatives, and have long been no relatives at all" - Prilepin's sister was previously married to Surkov's cousin.

Name: Zakhar Prilepin.

Place of Birth: village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region.

Parents: Prilepin Nikolai Semenovich, history teacher.
Nisiforova Tatyana Nikolaevna, physician.

Place of residence: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod.

Education: UNN them. N. I. Lobachevsky, Faculty of Philology.
School of Public Policy.

Publications: published since 2003
Prose: "Friendship of Peoples", "Continent", "New World", "Cinema Art", "Roman-newspaper", "North".

Writer, actor, musician. Editor-in-Chief of the Free Press website. Secretary of the Writers' Union of Russia. Presenter of the author's program "Russian Lessons" on the NTV channel. Deputy Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre. M. Gorky.

The Zakhar Prilepin Foundation provides humanitarian assistance to the residents of Donbass.

Books:

1. "Pathologies", a novel (2005)
2. Sankya, novel (2006)
3. "Sin", one life in several stories (2007)
4. Boots Full of Hot Vodka: Kid Stories (2008)
5. "I came from Russia", essay (2008)
6. “It concerns me personally”, essay (2009)
7. "Leonid Leonov: His game was huge", research (2010)
8. "Black Monkey", a story (2011)
9. "Eight", short stories (2011)
10. "Book Reader", a guide to the latest literature (2012)
11. Abode, novel (2014)
12. "Flying barge haulers", essay (2014)
13. "Not someone else's turmoil", essay (2015)
14. "Dissimilar poets: Mariengof, Lugovskoy, Kornilov", research (2015)
15. "Seven Lives", a collection of small prose (2016)
16. "Whatever Must Be Resolved...: A Chronicle of the Coming War", non-fiction (2016)
17. Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature" (2017)
18. "Life and stanzas of Anatoly Mariengof" (2018)
19. Some Won't Go to Hell, fantasy novel (2019)

Compiler of anthologies and collections:

1. “War. WAR" (2008, "ASTrel")
2. “Revolution. Revolution" (2009, "ASTrel")
3. “Name day of the heart. Conversations with Russian Literature" (2009, "ASTrel")
4. “Lit Perron. Anthology of Nizhny Novgorod poetry (2011, Books)
5. “Ten. Anthology of prose of the '00s' (2011, Ad Marginem)
6. "Lemon in jail." (2012, Centerpolygraph)
7. “14. Anthology of Women's Prose of the '00s' (2012, ASTrel)
8. Leonid Leonov. Collected works in six volumes (2013, "Terra")
9. Anatoly Mariengof. Collected works in three volumes (2013, "Terra")
10. Poets of the 20th century: Vasiliev, Yesenin, Kornilov, Lugovskoy, Mariengof. An anthology in five books (2015, Young Guard)
11. "Lemon in the war" (2016, Algorithm)
12. "I am a wounded earth" (2017, "Terra")

Filmography:

1. "Eva" (KMF, 2019) - Ukrainian oligarch, Eva's father.
2. "Duty" (KMF, military drama, 2017) - militia Cat.
3. "Gayler" (film, 2017) - Dima.
4. "THREAT: Trepalov and the Wallet" (TV series, 2016) - poet Vladimir Lugovskoy.
5. "Eight" (feature film, 2013) - a taxi driver.
6. "Inspector Cooper" (TV series, 2012) - Sergey Vasiliev, killer.

Screen versions:

• "White square"(director - Ivan Pavlyuchkov), 2012. Screen adaptation of the story "White Square". In 2012, the film received the Bronze Frame prize at the 12th International Short Film Festival Unseen Cinema in Maardu (Estonia) and the Grand Prix at the Metra International Film Festival (Russia).
• "Eight"(directed by Alexey Uchitel), 2013. Screen version of the story "Eight".
• "Fucking story"(directed by Mara Tamkovich, Poland) 2015. Short film based on the short story by Zakhar Prilepin "The Fucking Story".
• "Dog"(directed by VGIK graduate Ksenia Tishchenko), 2017. Short film based on the story of the same name by Zakhar Prilepin.

Discography:

• Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - The Seasons (2011)
• Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - "Coup" (2013)
• Rich and Zakhar Prilepin - "Pathologies" (2013)
• Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - "Hunter" (2015)
• Rich and Zakhar Prilepin - "To the Ocean" (2016)
• Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - Multicolored (2017)

Awards:

Prize finalist:

• 2005: "National Bestseller" (novel "Pathologies")
• 2005: "Boris Sokoloff Prize" (novel "Pathologies")
• 2006: "Russian Booker" (novel "Sankya")
• 2006: "National Bestseller" (novel "Sankya")
• 2006: Diploma of the Eureka Prize (novel Sankya)
• 2007: im. Y. Kazakova - for the best story of the year (story "Sin")
• 2009: im. I. A. Bunina - for the book of journalism "Terra Tartarara: This concerns me personally"
• 2012: Big Book (Black Monkey novel)
• 2014: "Russian Booker" (novel "Abode")

Prize Winner:

• 2005: BRF Prize "Inspire Paris"
• 2006: "Roman-gazeta" award in the "Discovery" nomination
• 2007: All-China Literary Award "Best Foreign Novel of the Year" - Sankya novel
• 2007: Award "Exclusive of the Year" of the site Nazlobu.ru for political journalism
• 2007: Yasnaya Polyana Prize "For an outstanding work of contemporary literature" (novel "Sankya")
• 2007: "Faithful Sons of Russia" award (for the novel "Sin")
• 2008: "Soldier of the Empire" award - for prose and journalism
• 2008: National Bestseller Award (novel Sin)
• 2008: OZON.RU Bestseller Award - according to the results of sales in the OZON.RU online store
• 2009: "Art person" of the year according to the radio station "Europe plus"
• 2010 National Award "Best Books and Publishing Houses-2010" in the "Biographies" section - for the book "Leonid Leonov: His game was huge"
• 2011: SuperNational Best Award ($100,000 for Best Prose of the Decade)
• 2011: GQ Writer of the Year
• 2012: "Bronze Snail" (2012) in the "Large Form" nomination for the best fantasy novel of the year - "Black Monkey".
• 2012: Man of the city (Nizhny Novgorod).
• 2012: BookMix.ru award in the nomination "Expert's Choice" (novel "Black Monkey")
• 2014: Book of the Year Award for The Abode (Annual National Competition)
• 2014: "Runet Book Prize-2014" in the nomination "Best Fiction Book" (the novel "Abode")
• 2014: Big Book Award (novel The Abode)
• 2014: Nizhny Novgorod regional award "Awakening" in the nomination "Leader of the Year"
• 2014: "Alexander Ivanovich Herzen Prize" (for the book "Peresvet is coming to us")
• 2015: "Vadim Valeryanovich Kozhinov Prize" (for "Notes from Novorossiya", social and literary activity)
• 2015: Zakhar Prilepin became the winner of the Yesenin Prize
• 2015: Zakhar Prilepin's novel "Abode" became the winner of the IV contest "Auditor - 2015" in the nomination "Customer's Choice. Publisher of the bestseller in paper form"
• 2017: Ivo Andrić Prize (Serbia) for the books "The Abode" and "Seven Lives"
• 2017: Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation for achievements in the field of culture
• 2017: awarded with the Donbass Volunteer Cross
• 2017: awarded the highest award of the International Slavic Literary Forum "Golden Knight" (Irkutsk) - gold medal named after. A.S. Pushkin
• 2017: became a laureate of the Alexander Nevsky Prize. The writer was awarded the first prize for the book “Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature.
• 2018: Award "For the preservation of the traditions of the Russian literary school, educational and social activities."
• 2018: The military drama "On Duty" (KMF) won the main prize of Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and became an Oscar contender. Director - Lenar Kamalov, starring - Zakhar Prilepin.
• 2018: Laureate of the international prize of the city of Cassino "Letterature dal fronte" for the novel "Pathologies" (Italy).
• 2018: Winner of the Lermontov Prize in the nomination "For achievements in literary work that has received public recognition" for the books "Dissimilar Poets" and "Platoon".
• 2018: Laureate of the international award "Person of the Year - 2018". Humanitarian activity. Donbass.

The French edition of Zakhar Prilepin's Pathologies won the prestigious Russophonie award in France for the best translation of a Russian book.

The film "White Square" (directed by Ivan Pavlyuchkov) received the "Bronze Frame" prize at the 12th International Short Film Festival "Unseen Cinema" in Maardu (Estonia) and the grand prix at the international film festival "Metra" (Russia).

The works of Zakhar Prilepin have already been translated into 23 languages: English, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Latvian, Moldavian, German, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Finnish, French , Czech, Japanese.

Books by Zakhar Prilepin are included in the curriculum of Russian liberal arts universities. The textbook “History of Russian Literature of the 20th Century” published in 2013 (recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science, is the first textbook that fully complies with the Federal State Standard) introduces a separate chapter on Zakhar Prilepin, which completes the course of modern literature.

Activity: journalist (previously: handyman, security guard, loader, commander of the OMON department, etc.)

Family status: happily married.

Achievements: four children.

Beliefs: national Bolshevik, member of the Other Russia party (chairman E. Limonov).

Likes:

Prose:
Gaito Gazdanov: "Evening at Claire's", "Night Roads", "Ghost of Alexander Wolf"
Romain Gary: Promise at Dawn
Boris Zaitsev: "Golden Pattern"
Thomas Mann: "Joseph and his brothers"
Henry Miller: "Sexus"
Anatoly Mariengof: "Cynics"
Vladimir Nabokov: "Hell or the Joy of Passion"
Leonid Leonov: Pyramid, Thief, Road to the Ocean, Evgenia Ivanovna
Eduard Limonov: “It's me, Eddie”, “Diary of a Loser”
Alexander Prokhanov: "Palace", "Third Toast"
Mikhail Tarkovsky: "Frozen Time"
Alexander Terekhov: "Stone Bridge", "Babaev"
Jonathan Franzen: "The Amendments"
Mikhail Sholokhov: Quiet Flows the Don
Russian classics of the 19th century, PSS.

Poetry:
Cesar Vallejo, Pavel Vasiliev, Sergei Yesenin, Eduard Limonov, Boris Ryzhiy.
Russian Silver Age. Greek poetry of the 20th century. Latin American Poetry of the 20th Century.

tunes:
Marc Almond - "Enchanted", "Open All Night"
Cure - "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me", "Disintegration"
Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion. Esperanza"
50 cent - "Get Rich Or Die Try"
Aquarium - "Radio Africa", "Russian Album"
Alexander Bashlachev - "Eternal Fast"
Alexander Dolsky - "The State of Blue Eyes", "Portrait in a Frame"
"Machine Band" - "Bomb"

As well as:
- A-ha, Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, Rob Dougan, Marley & Sons, Sinead O'Connor.
- "25/17", "Auktyon", Mikhail Shcherbakov, Elena Frolova.

Movie:
Angel Heart, dir. Alan Parker
Among the Gray Stones, dir. Kira Muratova

Favorite quote:
"Am I my brother's keeper?" (Cain).
“They said that I insulted the Queen of Prussia, not at all. I just told her: "Woman, go back to your spinning wheel and household." I have nothing to reproach myself with. I ordered her favorite Hatzfeld to be released, otherwise they would have shot him ”(Napoleon).
“If you die, you will know everything; or stop asking" (Leo Tolstoy).

Based on interviews and publications by Zakhar Prilepin.

Zakhar Prilepin- Russian writer, philologist, journalist.

Zakhar Prilepin- Member of the National Bolshevik Party since 1996. Was born Zakhar Prilepin July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region, in the family of a teacher and a nurse. He began his career at the age of 16. Zakhar Prilepin Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Nizhny Novgorod State University. N. I. Lobachevsky and the School of Public Policy. Zakhar Prilepin worked as a handyman, a security guard, served as a squad leader in the OMON, took part in the hostilities in Chechnya in 1996 and 1999.

Birth name: Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin
Aliases: Zakhar Prilepin
Date of birth: July 7, 1975
Place of birth: village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region, RSFSR, USSR
Citizenship: Russia
Occupation: Russian writer, philologist, journalist
Years of creativity: since 2003
Direction: realism

In 1999, due to financial difficulties, Zakhar Prilepin leaves the service in the riot police and gets a job as a journalist in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Delo. Published under many pseudonyms, the most famous of which is "Eugene Lavlinsky".
In 2000 Zakhar Prilepin becomes editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Parallel Zakhar Prilepin begins work on his first novel, Pathologies.
“The newspaper, however, was yellow, terrible, in some places even Black Hundred, although it was part of the holding of Sergei Kiriyenko. And I realized that I was wasting my life for nothing - and began to write a novel. At first it was a novel about love, but gradually (I worked for three or four years) it turned into a novel about Chechnya as my most powerful life experience - as they say, no matter what we do, a Kalashnikov assault rifle comes out.

First works Zahara Prilepina were published in 2003 in the newspaper Day of Literature.
Artworks Prilepin were published in various newspapers, including Literaturnaya Gazeta, Limonka, On the Edge, General Line, as well as in the magazines Sever, Friendship of Peoples, Roman-newspaper, Novy Mir ”,“ Snob ”,“ Russian Pioneer ”,“ Russian Life ”.
He was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper of the National Bolsheviks of Nizhny Novgorod "People's Observer". Zakhar Prilepin participated in the seminar of young writers Moscow - Peredelkino (February 2004) and in the IV, V, VI Forums of young writers of Russia in Moscow.

Zakhar Prilepin- a convinced National Bolshevik, at different time intervals - a consistent supporter of the NBP coalition "The Other Russia", took part in the organization of the March of Dissenters in Nizhny Novgorod on March 24, 2007.
In 2007 Zakhar Prilepin became a co-founder of the national-democratic movement "People". On June 23-24, 2007, the founding conference of the movement and the first meeting of its political council were held in Moscow. Sergei Gulyaev and Zakhar Prilepin became co-chairs of the movement. Subsequently, the People movement was supposed to join the Other Russia coalition, but this did not happen.

March 10, 2010 Zakhar Prilepin signed the appeal of the Russian opposition "Putin must go." In an interview published on March 16, 2010, he said in response to a question about the goals of the campaign:
“Putin is a system, and the whole system needs to be changed. An open political space is needed. First of all, the country must be brought out of the political freeze. This requires a free parliament, discussion, and an independent press.”

Currently Zakhar Prilepin works as chief editor of the Political News Agency - Nizhny Novgorod, general director of Novaya Gazeta in Nizhny Novgorod. Since July 2009, he has been the host of the No Country for Old Men program on the PostTV channel. Member of the Civil Literary Forum of Russia.
July 1, 2012 Zakhar Prilepin Together with Sergei Shargunov, he headed the editorial office of the Free Press website. Shargunov became editor-in-chief, and Zakhar Prilepin became editor-in-chief.

Zakhar Prilepin successfully and happily married. Has four children.

Zakhar Prilepin's awards

Winner of the Boris Sokolov Prize (2004)
Laureate of the Literaturnaya Rossiya newspaper award (2004)
Zakhar Prilepin- Laureate of the "Roman-newspaper" award in the "Discovery" nomination (2005)
Eureka Award Diploma (2006)
Shortlisted for the National Bestseller Award in 2005 and 2006 (2005, 2006)
In 2006, he became a finalist for the Russian Booker Prize.
Winner of the All-China International Literature Award "The Best Foreign Book of 2006" (2007)
Laureate of the annual literary prize "Yasnaya Polyana" named after Leo Tolstoy (nomination "XXI century") for the novel "Sankya" (2007)
Zakhar Prilepin- Laureate of the literary award "Faithful Sons of Russia" named after Alexander Nevsky for the novel in the stories "Sin" (2007)
Laureate of the All-Russian award of the Institute of National Strategy "Soldier of the Empire" (2008)
Winner of the National Bestseller Award for the novel in the stories "Sin" (2008)
Silver medal of the Bunin Prize for the book "TerraTartarara: It concerns me personally" (2009)
Winner of the "Super National Best" award, the novel "Sin" is named the best book of the decade (2011)
Winner of the Russian Booker of the Decade Award (2011)
Zakhar Prilepin- winner of the "Bronze Snail" award in the "Large Form" nomination for the best fantasy novel of the year - "Black Monkey" (2012).

Books by Zakhar Prilepin

"Pathologies" (novel) - 2004 ed. "St. Andrew's Flag"
Sankya (novel) - 2006 ed. "Ad Marginem"
"Sin" (novel) - 2007 ed. Vagrius (Super-National Best Award, 2011)
"Boots Full of Hot Vodka" (collection of short stories) - 2008 ed. "AST"
"I came from Russia" (collection of essays) - 2008 ed. "Limbus Press"
Terra Tartarara. This concerns me personally ”(collection of essays) - 2009 ed. "AST"
"Leonid Leonov: His game was huge" (biography) - 2010 ed. "Young Guard", series Life of Remarkable People
"Black Monkey" (novel) - 2011 ed. "AST"
"Eight" (collection of stories) - 2012 ed. "Astrel"
"Knigochet" (a manual on the latest literature) - 2012 ed. "Astrel"

Compilations by Zakhar Prilepin:

"What Day of the Week Will Happen" (collection of selected stories from the books "Sin" and "Boots Full of Hot Vodka") - 2008 ed. "Yasnaya Polyana"
"Sin and Other Stories" (collection of stories including the books "Sin", "Boots Full of Hot Vodka" and 2 stories not included in these books) - 2011 ed. "Astrel"
“Peresvet is coming to us” (a collection of essays based on the books “I came from Russia” and “It concerns me personally” with the inclusion of several new essays) - 2012 ed. "Astrel"
"Road in December" (collection of prose in one volume; with the exception of the collection "Eight") - 2012 ed. "Astrel"