The first laureate of the “Russian Booker”, writer Mark Kharitonov, has died
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Mark Kharitonov, a writer, poet, translator, the first laureate of the “Russian Booker” book prize, died in Moscow at the age of 87. This was reported by the publishing house “New Literary Review”.
Kharitonov’s poems and prose have been published since the late 1960s in many literary magazines, both official and self-published. He is the author of many books of artistic prose and essays. Kharitonov was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel “The Lines of Fate, or Milashevich’s Chest”, becoming its first laureate. The award, which existed from 1992 to 2019, was one of the main book awards in Russia. In 1997, his collection of essays received the French literary prize as the best foreign book of the year.
Kharitonov also worked a lot as a translator of German-language literature. The works of Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Elias Canetta and other famous writers of the 20th century were published in his translations in Russia.
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