Author

Peter Aleshkovsky

PETER ALESHKOVSKY graduated from Moscow State University and worked for a time as an archaeologist, before turning to literature. He attained literary success with his collection of stories Stargorod, followed by his novels Seagulls, Skunk: A Life (translated into English by Glas), and Vladimir Chigrintsev. Aleshkovsky has three times been short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Fish, which Russian Life Books published in English in 2010. His novel in stories, Stargorod, will be published in English by Russian Life Books in 2012.

Stargorod
Chtenia: Winter 2013
Three stories from the writer's forthcoming novel.
Author: Peter Aleshkovsky
Translator: Nina Shevchuk-Murray
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The Flyer
Chtenia: Winter 2011

Author: Peter Aleshkovsky
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
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Moscow Calling
Russian Life: May/June 2010
Author Peter Aleshkovsky recounts his personal impressions in the aftermath of the March 2010 Moscow subway bombing.
Author: Peter Aleshkovsky
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
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The Russian Klondike
Chtenia: Winter 2010

Author: Peter Aleshkovsky
Translator: Leigh Mosley
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Moscow to Vladivostok
Russian Life: Sep/Oct 2009
Few trips anywhere in the world rival the Trans-Siberian Railway. A six-day, seven-night, 9250 kilometer-long trip across the girth of the world’s largest country, it is also, as novelist Peter Aleshkovsky found, a trip into Russia’s past.
Author: Peter Aleshkovsky
Translator: Alexei Bayer
Illustrations/Images: Eugene Petrushanskiy
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Fish: History of a Migration
Chtenia: Summer 2008

Author: Peter Aleshkovsky
Translator: Nina Shevchuk-Murray
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