Andrei Gelasimov was born in
Irkutsk in 1965 and studied foreign languages at Yakutsk State University and
directing at the Moscow Theater Institute. His first novel, Thirst,
garnered the Apollon-Grigoriev Award and was nominated for the Belkin Prize.
His other awards include the 2009 Russian National Bestseller award, and the
Booker Student Prize. |