Mark Aldanov
Mark Aldanov | |
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Kiev, Russian Empire | |
Died | February 25, 1957 Nice, France |
Nationality | Russian |
Genre | Biography, fiction, criticism, essays |
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Biography
Mordkhai-Markus Landau (Aldanov) was born in
Ivan Bunin, the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, nominated Aldanov for the Nobel Prize a total of six times - in 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, and 1950.[3]
Mark Aldanov died in Nice, France.[1] His extensive correspondence with Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kerensky and other emigre celebrities was published posthumously.
Novy Zhurnal
In 1942, while in New York, Aldanov cofounded Novy Zhurnal (The New Review; Russian: Новый журнал) together with his colleague and friend Mikhail Tsetlin.[4] Until November 1945 they both served as Editors-in-Chief of this publication, which is considered the oldest Russian language literary periodical in print published outside of Russia.[5] Among the review's contributors were Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Bunin, Joseph Brodsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and other notable Russian emigre writers.[6]
The Aldanov Literary Prize
Since 2007 Novy Zhurnal has been awarding The Aldanov Literary Prize conferred for the best novella or novellete authored by a Russian-language writer living outside or Russia.[5]
Bibliography
The Thinker, a tetralogy[1]
- The Ninth Thermidor
- The Devil's Bridge
- The Conspiracy
- St. Helena: Little Island
Novels[1]
- Punch Vodka
- The Ninth Thermidor
- The Devil's Bridge
- Conspiracy
- The Tenth Symphony
- Saint Helena, Little Island
- For Thee the Best
- A Story About Death
- Before the Deluge
- Suicide
- The Key
- Escape
- The Cave
- The Fifth Seal - Тhe Beginning of the End
- Live As You Please
- Nightmare and Dawn
- Moltke the Younger
- Querétaro and Emperor Maximilian
References
- ^ ISBN 0300048688. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
- ^ Nominations by Nobel Laureates. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ^ Novy Zhurnal // ru.wikipedia.org. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ^ a b Literaturnaya premiya imeni Marka Aldanova // ru.wikipedia.org. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ^ Novy Zhurnal - Official Website. Retrieved February 5, 2014.