Pavel Basinsky

Russia

Writer, journalist, and cultural columnist for Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute. Two-time laureate of the Big Book Award and recipient of the Russian Federation State Prize for Literature and Art. Jury member for the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize and the Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana Prize, and chairman of the Valentin Rasputin Prize jury. Teaches at the Department of Literary Mastery at the Gorky Literary Institute. Author of over twenty books.