Zakhar Prilepin (real name - Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin). Born on July 7, 1975 in the village. Ilyinka Skopinsky district of the Ryazan region. Russian writer, musician, actor.

Evgeny Prilepin, who later became known as Zakhar Prilepin, was born on July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky District, Ryazan Region, into the family of a teacher and a nurse.

His sister, Elena Prilepina, was married to a cousin of the former deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, Vladislav Surkov.

In his native village, he regularly visits, as the writer said, "I am looking for my childhood traces, sometimes I find it." He was born in the maternity hospital of the city of Skopin. The place is very remarkable. "In addition to the fact that I was born there, Marshal Biryuzov was also born there, who almost caused the Third World War (he commanded the Soviet army when there was a Caribbean crisis), the largest playwright of the Stalin era Afinogenov, the cult Soviet director Lukinsky, the author of "Ivan Brovkin" and "The Village Detective", the wonderful composer Anatoly Novikov, the author of "Smuglyanka" and "Oh, the road ..." Among his contemporaries is the theater director Vladimir Del, who, by the way, recently staged an excellent play "Interrogation" based on my story, and , the main roles were played by two Skopin actors who have now moved to Moscow - Roman Danilin and Mikhail Sivorin. Yes, I almost forgot - Vladislav Surkov still studied and spent his childhood in Skopin, which is not necessary to talk about, "he said.

In 1986, the family moved to the Nizhny Novgorod region, to the city of Dzerzhinsk, where the mother worked at the Korund chemical plant.

Lost his father as a teenager. According to him, he immediately matured and looked at the world differently. He recalled about his father: “Father, like many intelligent people, in some way abused alcohol, which, however, never interfered with his work. He was the director of the school, and it never happened that he did not go to work. But he allowed himself drink an insane amount of alcohol and then there was a riot - my mother could have fallen. Of course, I was on the side of my mother, because she is weaker. Years later, I realized what inner torment was in my father. She was not visible to anyone. Nobody could have thought that he needed to be calmed down somehow, to be helped. I don’t know how to make life - he knew how.

From the age of 16 he worked in a bakery shop as a loader.

After school he left for Nizhny Novgorod, from there in 1994 he was drafted into the army.

After serving in the army, Prilepin studied at the police school and served in the riot police. He took part in the fighting in Chechnya and Dagestan.

In parallel with the service, Evgeny studied at the Faculty of Philology of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod.

In 1999, Prilepin graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod State University, left the service in the OMON and got a job as a journalist in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Delo.

He published under many pseudonyms, the most famous of which is "Eugene Lavlinsky".

In 2000 he became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The first works were published in 2003 in the newspaper Day of Literature. Prilepin's works were published in Literaturnaya Gazeta, Limonka, On the Edge and General Line, as well as in the magazines Sever, Friendship of Peoples, Roman-newspaper, Novy Mir, Snob , "Russian Pioneer", "Russian Life", "Aurora".

He was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper of the National Bolsheviks of Nizhny Novgorod "People's Observer". Participated in the seminar for young writers Moscow - Peredelkino (February 2004) and in the IV, V, VI Forums of young writers of Russia in Moscow.

Since March 2007, CEO and Chief Editor Novaya Gazeta in Nizhny Novgorod.

Since July 2009, he has been the host of the No Country for Old Men program on the PostTV channel. On July 1, 2012, together with Sergei Shargunov, he headed the editorial office of the Free Press website. Shargunov became editor-in-chief, and Zakhar Prilepin became editor-in-chief. Over the years, he wrote columns in leading Russian media, including Story and Ogonyok magazines, Novaya Gazeta, Izvestia, and others.

In October 2013, the author’s program “Prilepin” was aired on the Dozhd TV channel, the format implied a meeting with a guest in the studio and a conversation on a topic set by the host of the program, Prilepin, at the end of the program, the guest should present to the audience something from his work, for example, poem or song.

Since November 1, 2015 - host of the Salt program on REN TV. Since January 2016 - host of the author's program "Tea with Zakhar" on Tsargrad TV.

Prilepin is considered one of the founders of modern Russian military prose along with A. Karasev and A. Babchenko.

In October 2014, Prilepin entered the number of one hundred people of the year according to the Russian Reporter magazine. In November, he took the eighth line in the list of the most promising politicians in Russia, according to research by the ISEPI Foundation.

In April 2015, Zakhar Prilepin rose to fifth place in a similar list.

In the same April, "Resident" took first place in the ranking of the best-selling books of the year. According to the results of 2015, the novel The Abode became the most read book in Moscow libraries.

According to VTsIOM in 2015, Zakhar Prilepin took second place as the Writer of the Year and was the most cited writer of the year in the media. According to the Medialogy company, in 2016 Zakhar Prilepin became the most mentioned writer in the media, overtaking Andrey Usachev and Lyudmila Ulitskaya.

Zakhar Prilepin and music

In 2011, Prilepin, as a rap artist, recorded a joint track with musicians from the 25/17 group for the album of their Ice 9 side project - Cold War. The track was called "Kittens". A video was filmed for it, in which Zakhar Prilepin played the main role. Later, in March 2013, Zakhar starred in the video "Axes" of the same group.

In 2011, Prilepin assembled his own group, Elefank. On the label "Midday Music" the group released their debut album "Seasons". In total, three albums of the group were released. Separate songs on the albums along with Elefank are sung by Mikhail Borzykin, Konstantin Kinchev, Dmitry Revyakin, Alexander Sklyar and other rock performers.

Since 2013, Zakhar Prilepin has been recording joint tracks with rapper Rich, which are released on the musician's solo albums.

The most famous tracks were "It's time to bring down" and "In the 91st". The song "It's time to bring down" caused a sharply negative reaction from liberal fans and enemies of the writer.

By the opening of the Yeltsin Center, Zakhar Prilepin and Rich recorded the song "In 91" and posted a video for it on the Web. The clip starred Andrey Merzlikin and Yuri Bykov. In their verses, the performers speak harshly about what happened in August 1991 and the events that followed. Unexpectedly, the song was highly appreciated by the organizer of Our Radio, Mikhail Kozyrev.

In 2012, Prilepin acted as an actor, playing in the TV series Inspector Cooper. In 2013, he appeared in a small role in the director's film adaptation of his story The Eight.

Zakhar Prilepin and politics

Since 1996, the National Bolshevik, a supporter of the Other Russia coalition, took part in the organization of the March of Dissenters in Nizhny Novgorod on March 24, 2007. In 2007, Prilepin became a co-founder of the national democratic movement "People".

On June 23-24, 2007, the founding conference of the movement and the first meeting of its political council were held in Moscow. Sergei Gulyaev, Alexei Navalny and Zakhar Prilepin became co-chairs of the movement. Subsequently, the People movement was supposed to join the Other Russia coalition, but this did not happen.

On March 10, 2010, Prilepin signed the appeal of the Russian opposition "Putin must go." In an interview published on March 16, 2010, he said in response to a question about the goals of the campaign: "Putin is a system, and the whole system must be changed. An open political space is needed. First of all, the country must be brought out of a state of political freeze. For this, a free parliament , discussion, independent press".

In 2014, after the Crimean crisis, Prilepin rethought his attitude towards modern Russian power. In an interview dated October 1, 2014, he stated: "I have declared a personal truce in power, ironically speaking. I'm not sure if they noticed it, but I have not the slightest inclination to confrontation. In Russia, one way or another, what is happening is I have been writing and dreaming since the mid-90s."

In 2017, he became a member of the anniversary committee for the celebration of the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Since December 2015, he has been an adviser to the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko.

In March 2014, he condemned Russian cultural figures who opposed the annexation of Crimea to Russia.

In September 2014, Prilepin visited the zone of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine as a military correspondent from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. His notes have been published by many publications, for example, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and the socio-political Internet publication Svobodnaya Pressa (of which he has been editor-in-chief since 2012).

At the end of October 2014, Prilepin turned to his readers with a request to help Novorossia. Three million rubles were collected in three days. The purchased items, provisions and medicines for the civilian population, as well as ammunition for the militias, Zakhar Prilepin drove himself in his car at the head of a convoy with humanitarian aid. In addition, at the invitation of Zakhar Prilepin, the musician gave several concerts for the residents of Lugansk.

In February 2017, on his initiative and with his participation, a special forces battalion was created as part of the DPR army, Prilepin took the post of deputy battalion commander with the rank of major.

“One way or another, life was connected with the service at one time. I’m afraid to fall into pathos, but it’s completely obvious that Donbass is a zone of responsibility not before the inhabitants of Donbass or Ukraine, but before the future of Russia. If we manage to achieve something here ", then we will succeed everywhere, in any direction. I have certain opportunities, and I see no reason to stay away. On my initiative, a unit has already been created and we will strive to drive into some nearby city on a white horse , which was abandoned by us for various reasons," he explained.

“In general, when I began to deal with this topic, the phrase was formulated in my head: “The special forces of Russian literature are behind us.” Of course, we had the idea that Gumilyov served somewhere, Leo Tolstoy ... But in fact, this list is huge In Russia, since the 18th century, I have counted more than a hundred poets and writers whose life was directly connected with military service.In our country, the impostors of Russian literature began to prove that a Russian writer is such a small-legged Jesus who always talks about a child’s tear and about other touching things. Moreover, these people are actively and strongly rooting for the Ukrainian side. But this did not happen today. If you look closely at the war of 1812, the Crimean one, and even more so the suppression of the Polish uprising, even then a colossal number of our aristocracy could root for the Poles, for any opponent. During the Patriotic War of 1812, in Moscow salons they said: "Maybe it is worth resolving peace with Napoleon? This is an enlightened nation ...", Prilepin said.

"Donbass is a zone of responsibility not before the inhabitants of Donbass or Ukraine, but before the future of Russia," Zakhar believes.

Zakhar Prilepin in the Posner program

The growth of Zakhar Prilepin: 185 centimeters.

Personal life of Zakhar Prilepin:

Married. His wife's name is Maria (he calls her Marysia). We met when he worked in the riot police.

“Masha was engaged in some kind of business, she was one of the first business women in Nizhny Novgorod. She didn’t do something grandiose - she just thought quickly, thought quickly, bought something, resold something, rented some offices, then In any case, all this was already working for her in the nineties. And suddenly she abandoned her well-established business and connected her life with an riot policeman, "he said.

The couple has four children: daughters Lilya and Kira, sons Gleb and Ignat.

Filmography of Zakhar Prilepin:

2012 - Inspector Cooper - Sergey
2013 - Eight - taxi driver
2014 - Term
2015 - President
2017 - Revolution online

Discography of Zakhar Prilepin:

2011 - Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - The Seasons
2013 - Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - "Coup"
2013 - Richard Pacemaker and Zakhar Prilepin - "Pathologies"
2015 - Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - "Hunter"
2016 - Richard Pacemaker and Zakhar Prilepin - "To the Ocean"

Video clips featuring Zakhar Prilepin:

"Ice 9" - "Kittens two" - OMON platoon commander
25/17 - "Axes" - the owner of the village house
"Pacemaker" - "Portrait of Stalin" - head of the club
"Elefank" - "Tata" - TV presenter
Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - Well
25/17 - "Plantain" - cameo (episode)
25/17 - "Teen Wolf" - cameo
Rich - "Time to get out" - older brother
Rich - "Autumn" - cameo
Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - Corporal
Zakhar Prilepin and the group "Elefank" - "Korobok"
Rich - "In '91"
Rich and Zakhar Prilepin - "Capital"
Rich and Zakhar Prilepin - "Serious people"
Rich and Zakhar Prilepin - "To the Ocean"

Bibliography of Zakhar Prilepin:

Novels by Zakhar Prilepin:

2004 - "Pathologies"
2006 - "Sanka"
2007 - "Sin"
2011 - "Black Monkey"
2014 - "Resident"

Collections by Zakhar Prilepin:

2008 - "Boots Full of Hot Vodka" (short story collection)
2008 - "I came from Russia" (collection of essays)
2009 - "Terra Tartarara. This concerns me personally ”(collection of essays)
2012 - "Eight" (collection of stories)
2015 - "Flying barge haulers" (collection of essays)
2015 - “Not someone else's turmoil. One day - one year "(collection of essays)
2016 - "Seven Lives" (collection of short prose)

Biographies of Zakhar Prilepin:

2010 - "Leonid Leonov: His game was huge"
2015 - “Dissimilar poets. Tragedies and fates of the Bolshevik era: Anatoly Mariengof. Boris Kornilov. Vladimir Lugovskoy"
2017 - Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature"

Screen versions of the works of Zakhar Prilepin:

2012 - "White Square" (director Ivan Pavlyuchkov) - adaptation of the story "White Square" from the book "Sin"
2013 - "Eight" (directed by Alexei Uchitel) - adaptation of the story "Eight"

Now Zakhar Prilepin is known as a writer and columnist, actor and TV presenter, musician and politician. He writes for LiveJournal, maintains a Youtube channel and edits the Free Press website. At the same time, he does not suffer from the pangs of creativity and "does not know what inspiration is." The main chagrin is the lack of time: children grow up, and the moments of their growing up are missed.

In such a cycle, Prilepin draws strength from the fact that he has no "pretensions to life."

"I'm always happy with everything. I've been like this since childhood. And the logic of the higher powers that bestow us with all this is probably the following: if you're happy, then - on, here's a little more strength for you."

Childhood and youth

Zakhar Prilepin was born in July 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Ryazan Region. At birth, the boy was named Eugene. The Prilepin family was not rich: father Nikolai worked as a history teacher at school, and mother Tatyana worked as a nurse in a hospital. Therefore, the future writer had to start working from an early age.

Close people, Zakhar later recalled, are so colorful and he loved them so much that he endowed the heroes of the works with their inherent features. In the story "Forest", the father is written off from Prilepin Sr., the grandfather from "Sin" is the author's grandfather, Semyon.

In 1986, the family moved to the Nizhny Novgorod region, to the city of Dzerzhinsk, where the parents were given an apartment. Prilepin's mother got a job at the Korund chemical plant. At the age of 16, the boy began working as a loader in a bakery. A year later, his father died, after his death, the guy had a hard time. After graduating from school, he changed his place of residence to Nizhny Novgorod, after which he joined the army in 1994, but was subsequently discharged.

Then Prilepin entered the police school - tall (185 cm), a strong young man served in the riot police.

In parallel with the work, the future writer studied at the philological faculty of the Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod. However, it was not destined to continue his studies then - in 1996, Prilepin was sent to Chechnya. After another 3 years, Zakhar took part in the hostilities already in another Caucasian region - in Dagestan.

In the 90s, Prilepin did not have enough riot police salary, and he worked as a security guard in nightclubs. He worked as a security guard and a handyman. In 1999, the man graduated from the university and left the OMON.

Books and creativity

In 2000, in Nizhny Novgorod, Prilepin began working in the local newspaper Delo, after which he quickly became a fairly popular journalist. A year after being hired, Zakhar became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

The first opuses of Prilepin the writer began to appear in 2003, then they were poetic works. At this time, the first novel "Pathology" was written, in which the theme of the Chechen war runs like a red thread. At first, it was printed piece by piece in magazines, and was published as a separate book in 2005.

Since 2006, various publishing houses have published the works “Sankya”, “Sin”, “Boots full of hot vodka”, “I came from Russia”, “Terra Tartarara. This concerns me personally” “Name day of the heart. Conversations with Russian Literature.

Prilepin was educated at the School of Public Policy, which was founded by the Open Russia Foundation. In 2007, the writer became one of the co-founders of the "People" movement, whose ideology was "democratic nationalism".

In the same year, Zakhar Prilepin started a blog on the open platform LiveJournal. Here the writer boldly covers topics of interest to him, writes about his personal work, literature and politics. Zakhar does not hide his firm position on many acute political issues.

The year 2009 was marked for Prilepin by receiving the silver medal of the Bunin Prize for the collection “TerraTartarara. This applies to me personally." Then Zakhar was appointed secretary of the Russian Union of Writers. In addition, he began his career as a TV presenter, working in the PostTV program.

In 2010, Zakhar Prilepin signed an appeal to the Russian authorities from the opposition and explained in an interview that he considers the system, and "the whole system needs to be changed in order to get an open political space." The activist met with the President of Russia personally more than once, talking with him on various topics, including political ones.

Zakhar loves Russian rock and sometimes writes music himself. In 2011, he made his debut with the album "Seasons", recorded with his own group "Elefunk" on the label "Midday Music".

In the same 2011, the well-known men's magazine GQ named Prilepin the writer of the year. At the same time, the author was awarded the Bronze Snail Prize for the novel The Black Monkey.

In 2012, Zakhar wrote a manual on modern literature "Book Reader" and published stories in the collection "Eight".

In 2014, the novel The Abode brought Zakhar Prilepin the prestigious Big Book Award, established by Russian business circles. The winners are selected by a jury of 100 people, including scientists and artists, journalists and public figures.

In 2015, the writer continued his television career. Zakhar undertook to host the musical show "Salt" on the REN TV channel, where he talked with popular Russian musicians on important social topics. 65 episodes went on the air, and at the beginning of 2016, Prilepin opened a new author's program "Tea with Zakhar" on the Orthodox channel Tsargrad TV. This project closed after a year.

“My programs on the channel were the most rated. That is why they tolerated me, with all my leftist agenda.”

Policy

Politics is a tedious business, says Zakhar, people are tired, and few people want to plunge into this swamp, but they feel that they are obliged. Prilepin's main interest was the Ukrainian question. The writer's blogs are mainly devoted to the situation in the Donbass.

In 2015, Prilepin took the post of adviser to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, in 2016 he began to participate in military clashes. The man became deputy commander of a special forces battalion for work with the personnel of the DPR army, where he later rose to the rank of major.

In the same year, Prilepin took part in a public discussion of political and social issues at the site of the Trend discussion club in St. Petersburg. Together with Zakhar, the famous translator spoke. Speakers agreed on many issues.

Zakhar Prilepin shared his views with Altai readers during joint press conferences with journalist and writer Sergei Shargunov in Barnaul.

In 2017, the media reported that Prilepin was tired of simply delivering humanitarian aid to the Donbass. The Russian writer gathered a battalion of local residents, "whom he knew where to look for." It was not without accusations of promoting mercenarism, when in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda the words were heard that "there is a turn of guys from Russia."

Prilepin responded to the press on LiveJournal that he did not announce conscription into the DPR army and did not invite people to the battalion, especially mercenaries. There is no such thing as an invitation.

“When it all started, in the spring of 2014, we launched the Interbrigade project and began to slowly supply volunteers here. First to Luhansk, then to Donetsk.” The idea that you need to create your own division was constantly present.

Prilepin also asked not to invite him to TV - he refused to give interviews, reproaching the media for misinterpreting his words and "arranging a farce." To prove his words, the man publishes on his blog links and excerpts from materials dedicated to him, where he is either called "Putin's agent", or they prophesy an early cleansing by the Russian authorities.

This social and political situation inspired the author to write a collection of biographies of writers who participated in various wars of the past centuries. The book was published in 2017 under the title Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature.

Critics responded to the release of the book and the fact that Prilepin continues to broadcast television, accusing him of hypocrisy, of a frivolous understanding of the war. The writer responded to these claims by saying that if he quits everything and fights quietly in the Donbass, then he, his battalion and his ideas will lose stable funding and a platform for statements, which will not be an “act” at all, as Prilepin’s opponents characterize.

Zakhar donates the money earned by creativity to charity. According to the writer, he has one and a half million requests for assistance to families affected by the conflict. Prilepin contributed to the large-scale music festival "Lava Fest" with the invitation of rappers,

Zakhar is an Orthodox Christian, he constantly goes to church, baptized children. The Prilepins live in Nizhny Novgorod, in a house on the banks of the Kerzhenets River. In November 2017, Zakhar and Maria got married in Donetsk.

In addition to "LJ", Zakhar uses

Name: Zakhar Prilepin.

Place of Birth: village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region.

Parents: Prilepin Nikolai Semenovich, history teacher.
Nisiforova Tatyana Nikolaevna, physician.

Place of residence: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod.

Education: UNN them. N. I. Lobachevsky, Faculty of Philology.
School of Public Policy.

Publications: published since 2003
Prose: "Friendship of Peoples", "Continent", "New World", "Cinema Art", "Roman-newspaper", "North".

Writer, actor, musician. Editor-in-Chief of the Free Press website. Secretary of the Writers' Union of Russia. Presenter of the author's program "Russian Lessons" on the NTV channel. Member of the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Popular Front. Deputy Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre. M. Gorky.

In October 2019, Zakhar Prilepin creates the Public Movement "For the Truth". Since 2020 - Chairman of the For Truth party.

The Zakhar Prilepin Foundation provides humanitarian assistance to the residents of Donbass.

Books:

1. "Pathologies", a novel (2005)
2. Sankya, novel (2006)
3. "Sin", one life in several stories (2007)
4. Boots Full of Hot Vodka: Kid Stories (2008)
5. "I came from Russia", essay (2008)
6. “It concerns me personally”, essay (2009)
7. "Leonid Leonov: His game was huge", research (2010)
8. "Black Monkey", a story (2011)
9. "Eight", short stories (2011)
10. "Book Reader", a guide to the latest literature (2012)
11. Abode, novel (2014)
12. "Flying barge haulers", essay (2014)
13. "Not someone else's turmoil", essay (2015)
14. "Dissimilar poets: Mariengof, Lugovskoy, Kornilov", research (2015)
15. "Seven Lives", a collection of small prose (2016)
16. "Whatever Must Be Resolved...: A Chronicle of the Coming War", non-fiction (2016)
17. Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature" (2017)
18. Some Won't Go to Hell, fantasy novel (2019)
19. "Stories from an easy and instant life", essay (2019)
20. Yesenin. Promising a meeting ahead, ZhZL (2019)

Compiler of anthologies and collections:

1. “War. WAR" (2008, "ASTrel")
2. “Revolution. Revolution" (2009, "ASTrel")
3. “Name day of the heart. Conversations with Russian Literature" (2009, "ASTrel")
4. “Lit Perron. Anthology of Nizhny Novgorod poetry (2011, Books)
5. “Ten. Anthology of prose of the '00s' (2011, Ad Marginem)
6. "Lemon in jail." (2012, Centerpolygraph)
7. “14. Anthology of Women's Prose of the '00s' (2012, ASTrel)
8. Leonid Leonov. Collected works in six volumes (2013, "Terra")
9. Anatoly Mariengof. Collected works in three volumes (2013, "Terra")
10. Poets of the 20th century: Vasiliev, Yesenin, Kornilov, Lugovskoy, Mariengof. An anthology in five books (2015, Young Guard)
11. "Lemon in the war" (2016, Algorithm)
12. "I am a wounded earth" (2017, "Terra")

Filmography:

1. "Eva" (KMF, 2019) - Ukrainian oligarch, Eva's father.
2. "Duty" (KMF, military drama, 2017) - militia Cat.
3. "Guiler" (film, 2017) - Dima.
4. "THREAT: Trepalov and the Wallet" (TV series, 2016) - poet Vladimir Lugovskoy.
5. "Eight" (feature film, 2013) - a taxi driver.
6. "Inspector Cooper" (TV series, 2012) - Sergey Vasiliev, killer.

Screen versions:

• "White square"(director - Ivan Pavlyuchkov), 2012. Screen adaptation of the story "White Square". In 2012, the film received the Bronze Frame prize at the 12th International Short Film Festival Unseen Cinema in Maardu (Estonia) and the Grand Prix at the Metra International Film Festival (Russia).
• "Eight"(directed by Alexey Uchitel), 2013. Screen version of the story "Eight".
• "Fucking story"(directed by Mara Tamkovich, Poland) 2015. Short film based on the short story by Zakhar Prilepin "The Fucking Story".
• "Dog"(directed by VGIK graduate Ksenia Tishchenko), 2017. Short film based on the story of the same name by Zakhar Prilepin.

Discography:

• Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - The Seasons (2011)
• Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - "Coup" (2013)
• Rich and Zakhar Prilepin - "Pathologies" (2013)
• Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - "Hunter" (2015)
• Rich and Zakhar Prilepin - "To the Ocean" (2016)
• Zakhar Prilepin and the Elefank group - Tsvetnoy (2019)

Awards:

Prize finalist:

• 2005: "National Bestseller" (novel "Pathologies")
• 2005: "Boris Sokoloff Prize" (novel "Pathologies")
• 2006: "Russian Booker" (novel "Sankya")
• 2006: "National Bestseller" (novel "Sankya")
• 2006: Diploma of the Eureka Prize (novel Sankya)
• 2007: im. Y. Kazakova - for the best story of the year (story "Sin")
• 2009: im. I. A. Bunina - for the book of journalism "Terra Tartarara: This concerns me personally"
• 2012: Big Book (Black Monkey novel)
• 2014: "Russian Booker" (novel "Abode")

Prize Winner:

• 2005: BRF Prize "Inspire Paris"
• 2006: "Roman-gazeta" award in the "Discovery" nomination
• 2007: All-China Literary Award "Best Foreign Novel of the Year" - Sankya novel
• 2007: Award "Exclusive of the Year" of the site Nazlobu.ru for political journalism
• 2007: Yasnaya Polyana Prize "For an outstanding work of contemporary literature" (novel "Sankya")
• 2007: "Faithful Sons of Russia" award (for the novel "Sin")
• 2008: "Soldier of the Empire" award - for prose and journalism
• 2008: National Bestseller Award (novel Sin)
• 2008: OZON.RU Bestseller Award - according to the results of sales in the OZON.RU online store
• 2009: "Art person" of the year according to the radio station "Europe plus"
• 2010 National Award "Best Books and Publishing Houses-2010" in the "Biographies" section - for the book "Leonid Leonov: His game was huge"
• 2011: Supernational Best Award ($100,000 for the best prose decades)
• 2011: GQ Writer of the Year
• 2012: "Bronze Snail" (2012) in the "Large Form" nomination for the best fantasy novel of the year - "Black Monkey".
• 2012: Man of the city (Nizhny Novgorod).
• 2012: BookMix.ru award in the nomination "Expert's Choice" (novel "Black Monkey")
• 2014: Book of the Year Award for The Abode (Annual National Competition)
• 2014: "Runet Book Prize-2014" in the nomination "Best Fiction Book" (the novel "Abode")
• 2014: Big Book Award (novel The Abode)
• 2014: Nizhny Novgorod regional award "Awakening" in the nomination "Leader of the Year"
• 2014: "Alexander Ivanovich Herzen Prize" (for the book "Peresvet is coming to us")
• 2015: "Vadim Valeryanovich Kozhinov Prize" (for "Notes from Novorossiya", social and literary activity)
• 2015: Zakhar Prilepin became the winner of the Yesenin Prize
• 2015: Zakhar Prilepin's novel "Abode" became the winner of the IV contest "Auditor - 2015" in the nomination "Customer's Choice. Publisher of the bestseller in paper form"
• 2017: Ivo Andrić Prize (Serbia) for the books "The Abode" and "Seven Lives"
• 2017: Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation for achievements in the field of culture
• 2017: awarded with the Donbass Volunteer Cross
• 2017: awarded the highest award of the International Slavic Literary Forum "Golden Knight" (Irkutsk) - gold medal named after. A.S. Pushkin
• 2017: became a laureate of the Alexander Nevsky Prize. The writer was awarded the first prize for the book “Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature.
• 2018: Award "For the preservation of the traditions of the Russian literary school, educational and social activities."
• 2018: The military drama "On Duty" (KMF) won the main prize of Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and became an Oscar contender. Director - Lenar Kamalov, starring - Zakhar Prilepin.
• 2018: Laureate of the international prize of the city of Cassino "Letterature dal fronte" for the novel "Pathologies" (Italy).
• 2018: Laureate of the Lermontov Prize in the nomination "For achievements in literary work that has received public recognition" for the books "Dissimilar Poets" and "Platoon".
• 2018: Laureate of the international award "Person of the Year - 2018". Humanitarian activity. Donbass.
• 2020: Winner of the national award "Best Books and Publishers of the Year" in the category "Fiction" for the novel "Some won't go to hell".

The French edition of Zakhar Prilepin's Pathologies won the prestigious Russophonie award in France for the best translation of a Russian book.

The film "White Square" (directed by Ivan Pavlyuchkov) received the "Bronze Frame" prize at the 12th International Short Film Festival "Unseen Cinema" in Maardu (Estonia) and the grand prix at the international film festival "Metra" (Russia).

Zakhar Prilepin's works have been translated into 25 languages: English, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Latvian, Moldavian, German, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Finnish, French, Czech, Japanese.

Books by Zakhar Prilepin are included in the curriculum of Russian liberal arts universities. The textbook “History of Russian Literature of the 20th Century” published in 2013 (recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science, is the first textbook that fully complies with the Federal State Standard) contains a separate chapter on Zakhar Prilepin, which completes the course of modern literature.

Activity: journalist (previously: handyman, security guard, loader, commander of the OMON department, etc.)

Family status: happily married.

Achievements: four children.

Beliefs: national Bolshevik, patriot.

Likes:

Prose:
Gaito Gazdanov: "Evening at Claire's", "Night Roads", "Ghost of Alexander Wolf"
Romain Gary: Promise at Dawn
Boris Zaitsev: "Golden Pattern"
Thomas Mann: "Joseph and his brothers"
Henry Miller: "Sexus"
Anatoly Mariengof: "Cynics"
Vladimir Nabokov: "Hell or the Joy of Passion"
Leonid Leonov: Pyramid, Thief, Road to the Ocean, Evgenia Ivanovna
Eduard Limonov: “It's me, Eddie”, “Diary of a Loser”
Alexander Prokhanov: "Palace", "Third Toast"
Mikhail Tarkovsky: "Frozen Time"
Alexander Terekhov: "Stone Bridge", "Babaev"
Jonathan Franzen: "The Amendments"
Mikhail Sholokhov: Quiet Flows the Don
Russian classics of the 19th century, PSS.

Poetry:
Cesar Vallejo, Pavel Vasiliev, Sergei Yesenin, Eduard Limonov, Boris Ryzhiy.
Russian Silver Age. Greek poetry of the 20th century. Latin American Poetry of the 20th Century.

tunes:
Marc Almond - "Enchanted", "Open All Night"
Cure - "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me", "Disintegration"
Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion. Esperanza"
50 cent - "Get Rich Or Die Try"
Aquarium - "Radio Africa", "Russian Album"
Alexander Bashlachev - "Eternal Fast"
Alexander Dolsky - "The State of Blue Eyes", "Portrait in a Frame"
"Machine Band" - "Bomb"

And:
- A-ha, Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, Rob Dougan, Marley & Sons, Sinead O'Connor.
- "25/17", "Auktyon", Mikhail Shcherbakov, Elena Frolova.

Movie:
Angel Heart, dir. Alan Parker
Among the Gray Stones, dir. Kira Muratova

Favorite quote:
"Am I my brother's keeper?" (Cain).
“They said that I insulted the Queen of Prussia, not at all. I just told her: "Woman, go back to your spinning wheel and household." I have nothing to reproach myself with. I ordered her favorite Hatzfeld to be released, otherwise they would have shot him ”(Napoleon).
“If you die, you will know everything; or stop asking" (Leo Tolstoy).

Based on interviews and publications by Zakhar Prilepin.

06.07.2018

Zakhar Prilepin
Prilepin Evgeny Nikolaevich

Russian writer, publicist

Public figure

Russian writer, philologist, publicist.
Member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
Known for his socio-political, humanitarian and military activities.

Evgeny Prilepin was born on July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Ryazan Region. His father was a school history teacher and his mother was a nurse. In 1986, the family moved to the Nizhny Novgorod region, to the city of Dzerzhinsk, where the parents were given an apartment. After graduating from high school, Prilepin moved to Nizhny Novgorod.

In 1994 he was called up for military service in the ranks of the Russian army, but was subsequently discharged. After serving in the army, he studied at the police school and served in the riot police. In parallel with the service, he studied at the philological faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. However, in 1996 he was sent to Chechnya to participate in hostilities, and in 1999 he took part in armed clashes in Dagestan.

In 1999, Prilepin graduated from the philological faculty of the Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod and left the service in the OMON. In 2000, he got a job as a journalist in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Delo. He published under many pseudonyms, the most famous of which is "Eugene Lavlinsky". In 2001 he became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The first works were published in 2003 in the newspaper Day of Literature. Then his works were published in Literaturnaya Gazeta, On the Edge and General Line, as well as in the magazines Sever, Friendship of Peoples, Roman-newspaper, Novy Mir, Russian Life, Aurora".

Prilepin was the editor-in-chief of the National Bolshevik newspaper of Nizhny Novgorod, People's Observer. Participated in the seminar for young writers "Moscow-Peredelkino" and in the IV, V, VI Forums of young writers of Russia in Moscow. He is considered one of the founders of modern Russian military prose, along with Alexander Karasev and Arkady Babchenko. Since July 2009, he has been the host of the No Country for Old Men program on the PostTV channel. Over the years, he led columns in the leading Russian media, including the magazines Story and Ogonyok.

Politically, Zakhar Prilepin has been a National Bolshevik since 1996, a coalition supporter and later a member of the unregistered Russian political party The Other Russia, founded by Eduard Limonov. He took part in the organization of the Nizhny Novgorod "March of Dissent" on March 24, 2007. In 2007, he became a co-founder of the national-democratic movement "People". In June 2007, the founding conference of the movement and the first meeting of its political council were held in Moscow. Sergei Gulyaev, Alexei Navalny and Zakhar Prilepin became co-chairs of the movement.

In March 2010, Prilepin signed the appeal of the Russian opposition "Putin must go." As a way to save Russia, Prilepin called for "giving birth to as many Russian children as possible." In 2014, after the Crimean crisis, Prilepin rethought his attitude towards modern Russian power. In an interview on October 1, 2014, he announced a "personal truce in power" and the absence of "the slightest inducement to confrontation." This position was motivated by the changes taking place in Russia, about which he had been writing and dreaming since the mid-1990s.

As a rap artist, Zakhar Prilepin recorded a joint track with musicians from the group "25/17" for the album of their side project "Ice 9" - "Cold War" in 2011. The track was called "Kittens". A video was shot on it, in which the writer played the main role. In the same year, Prilepin assembled his own group, Elefank. On the label "Midday Music" the group released their debut album "Seasons". In total, three albums of the group were released. Separate songs on the albums along with Elefank are sung by Mikhail Borzykin, Konstantin Kinchev, Dmitry Revyakin, Alexander Sklyar and other rock performers.

In 2012, Prilepin acted as an actor, playing in the TV series Inspector Cooper. In 2013, he appeared in a small role in the film adaptation of his story The Eight. Since 2013, Prilepin has been recording joint tracks with rapper Rich, which are released on the musician's solo albums. The most famous tracks were "It's time to bring down" and "In the 91st". The song "It's time to bring down" caused a sharply negative reaction from liberal critics of the writer.

In October 2013, the Dozhd TV channel aired the author's Prilepin program, the format of which involved meeting with the guest in the studio and talking on a topic set by the program host - Prilepin, at the end of the program the guest had to present the audience with something from his work, such as a poem or a song.

In March 2014, he condemned Russian cultural figures who opposed the annexation of Crimea to Russia, and in September he visited the zone of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, as a military correspondent from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. His notes were published by a number of publications, for example, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and the Svobodnaya Pressa online publication, of which he has been editor-in-chief since 2012.

Prilepin urged his readers to help Novorossiya. Three million rubles were collected in three days. The purchased items, provisions and medicines for the civilian population, as well as ammunition for the militias, Zakhar Prilepin drove himself in his car at the head of a convoy with humanitarian aid. In addition, at the invitation of Prilepin, musician Alexander Sklyar gave several concerts for the residents of Lugansk.

Having organized the next fundraising for humanitarian aid to Donbass in February 2015, by March he had collected more than 12 million rubles. A documentary film "Not someone else's turmoil" was filmed about this trip. In March, the 360° Podmoskovye TV channel joined the fundraising. As a result, another 2 million 120 thousand rubles were collected. With this and the money left over from the previous trip, medicines, food and other essential goods were purchased. In April, a humanitarian mission arrived in Novorossia. The cargoes were distributed according to collective applications and according to address lists.

Since November 2015, he has been the host of the musical TV show "Sol" on REN TV. Since January 2016 - host of the author's program "Tea with Zakhar" on Tsargrad TV. Prilepin is also an adviser to the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko. Since October 2016 - deputy commander of a special forces battalion for work with personnel of the DPR army, since November 2016 - with the rank of major.

In 2016, according to a poll by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, Zakhar Prilepin shared third place with Boris Akunin, Alexander Prokhanov and Viktor Pelevin as "Writer of the Year in Russia", and according to the Medialogy company, he became the most mentioned writer in the media, ahead of Andrey Usachev and Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Prilepin's works were published in English, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Armenian.

In the autumn of 2016, the organizers of the Polish literary festival Konrad withdrew the invitation to Prilepin, with whom they wanted to discuss the problems of nationalism as an ideologically biased person. This happened after the appeal of Ukrainian writers, who compared the situation with the invitation of Anders Breivik.

In 2017, Prilepin joined the anniversary committee for the celebration of the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and on February 16, 2017, the SBU opened a criminal case against Prilepin in connection with his cooperation with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

Zakhar Prilepin is married. Today, the Prilepin family has four children - Gleb, Kira, Ignat and Lilia. After many years of marriage, the couple are still close. As the writer himself says, far from Masha, he is constantly bored. The writer calls the guarantee of a strong marriage "the highest bar of personal relationships and absolute trust." Prilepin's sister was married to the cousin of Vladislav Surkov, the former deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, whom the writer often met and called a relative.

Biography

He is also known for his socio-political, humanitarian and military activities in Russia and the countries of the “near abroad”. In a number of creative projects of different genres, he acted as a producer, editor-in-chief, TV presenter, rap artist and actor.

Laureate of the Prize of the Government of Russia in the field of culture, as well as a number of other prizes in literature.

Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin was born on July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Ryazan Region, in the family of a school history teacher and a nurse. Russian.

In 1986, the family moved to the Nizhny Novgorod region, to the city of Dzerzhinsk, where the parents were given an apartment.
After graduating from high school in 1992, Prilepin moved to Nizhny Novgorod.
In 1994 he was called up for military service in the ranks of the Russian army, but was subsequently discharged.

After serving in the army, he studied at the police school and served in the riot police. In parallel with the service, he studied at the Faculty of Philology of the N. I. Lobachevsky State University, but in 1996 he was sent to Chechnya to participate in hostilities. In 1999, he took part in armed clashes in Dagestan.

In 1999, Prilepin graduated from the Philological Faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod state university named after N. I. Lobachevsky and left the service in the riot police.

In 2000, he got a job as a journalist in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Delo. He published under many pseudonyms, the most famous of which is "Eugene Lavlinsky". In 2001 he became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

Prilepin's first works were published in 2003 in the Day of Literature newspaper. Then his works were published in Literaturnaya Gazeta, Limonka, On the Edge and General Line, as well as in the journals Sever, Friendship of Peoples, Roman-newspaper, Novy Mir, Snob ”,“ Russian Pioneer ”,“ Russian Life ”,“ Aurora ”.

Prilepin was the editor-in-chief of the National Bolshevik newspaper of Nizhny Novgorod, People's Observer. Participated in the seminar for young writers "Moscow-Peredelkino" (February 2004) and in the IV, V, VI Forums of Young Writers of Russia in Moscow. Prilepin is considered one of the founders of modern Russian military prose (along with Alexander Karasev and Arkady Babchenko).

In October 2014, Prilepin became one of the hundred people of the year in Russia according to the Russian Reporter magazine. In November, he was ranked eighth on the list of Russia's most promising politicians, according to research by the Kremlin-affiliated Institute for Socio-Economic and Political Research (ISEPI). In April 2015, Zakhar Prilepin rose to fifth place in a similar list.

In the same April, Prilepin's novel The Abode took first place in the ranking of the best-selling books of the year according to the Pro-Books.ru website. According to the results of 2015, the novel The Abode became the most read book in Moscow libraries.

According to the results of a survey by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), in 2015 Prilepin took second place as "Writer of the Year in Russia" (losing to Daria Dontsova), and as "Writer of the Year in Russia according to the Russian media (by the number of publications)", according to Medialogy, became the first (with the number of publications 11623 in 2015).

In 2016, according to a VTsIOM poll, Zakhar Prilepin shared third place with Boris Akunin, Alexander Prokhanov and Viktor Pelevin as the "Writer of the Year in Russia", and according to the Medialogy company, he became the most mentioned writer in the media, ahead of Andrei Usachev and Lyudmila Ulitskaya.

Prilepin's works were published in English, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Armenian.

Political activity

Politically, Zakhar Prilepin is a National Bolshevik (since 1996), a supporter of the coalition and then a member of the unregistered Russian political party Other Russia, founded by Eduard Limonov. He took part in the organization of the Nizhny Novgorod "March of Dissent" on March 24, 2007. In 2007, he became a co-founder of the national-democratic movement "People". On June 23-24, 2007, the founding conference of the movement and the first meeting of its political council were held in Moscow. Sergei Gulyaev, Alexei Navalny and Zakhar Prilepin became co-chairs of the movement. Subsequently, the People movement was supposed to join the Other Russia coalition, but this did not happen.

On March 10, 2010, Prilepin signed the appeal of the Russian opposition "Putin must go." In an interview published on March 16, 2010, he said in response to a question about the goals of the campaign: “Putin is a system, and the whole system needs to be changed. An open political space is needed. First of all, the country must be brought out of the political freeze. This requires a free parliament, discussion, and an independent press.”

In 2011, as a way to save Russia, Prilepin called for "to give birth to as many Russian children as possible." Prilepin also noted: "I cut down the antenna in the house and do not use the Internet, they do not add awareness of the meaning of what is happening."

In 2014, after the Crimean crisis, Prilepin rethought his attitude towards modern Russian power. In an interview on October 1, 2014, he announced a "personal truce in power" and the absence of "the slightest inducement to confrontation." This position was motivated by the changes taking place in Russia, about which he had been writing and dreaming since the mid-1990s.

Since 2014, Zakhar Prilepin has personally taken part in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Since December 2015, Prilepin has been an adviser to the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko. Since October 2016, he has been the deputy commander of a special forces battalion for work with the personnel of the DPR army (the battalion commander is a member of the Other Russia, Sergey Fomchenkov), since November 2016, he has been promoted to major. However, participation in the armed conflict does not prevent Zakhar Prilepin from holding meetings with readers in Moscow bookstores. The ultimate goal of the war was the victory of Donbass through the return of Little Russia and the Russian city of Kyiv. On February 16, the SBU opened criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Art. 258-3 (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization) and Part 1 of Art. 258-5 (financing of terrorism) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced threats from Ukrainians against Prilepin, "who wants to help the Ukrainian state establish a normal life." In February 2017, after Zakhar Prilepin became deputy battalion commander in Donbass and took up arms, the German literary agency Wiedling Literary Agency, which represented his authorial interests on the international publishing market, refused to cooperate with him. "For the courage shown" Zakhar Prilepin was awarded the Cross of Donbass Volunteers.

Journalism and television

On July 1, 2012, together with Sergei Shargunov, he headed the editorial office of the Free Press website: Shargunov became editor-in-chief, and Prilepin became editor-in-chief.

Over the years, he wrote columns in the Russian media, including the magazines Story and Ogonyok, Novaya Gazeta, Izvestiya, and others.

In October 2013, the Dozhd TV channel aired the author's Prilepin program, the format of which involved meeting with the guest in the studio and talking on a topic set by the program host - Prilepin, at the end of the program the guest had to present the audience with something from his work, such as a poem or a song.

Since November 1, 2015 - the host of the musical TV show "Sol" on REN TV.
Since January 2016 - host of the author's program "Tea with Zakhar" on Tsargrad TV.

Music and cinema

In 2011, Prilepin, as a rap artist, recorded a joint track with musicians from the 25/17 group for the album of their Ice 9 side project - Cold War. The track was called "Kittens". A video was filmed for it, in which Zakhar Prilepin played the main role. Later, in March 2013, Zakhar starred in the video "Axes" of the same group.

In 2011, Prilepin assembled his own group, Elefank. On the label "Midday Music" the group released their debut album "Seasons". In total, three albums of the group were released. Separate songs on the albums along with Elefank are sung by Mikhail Borzykin, Konstantin Kinchev, Dmitry Revyakin, Alexander Sklyar and other rock performers.

Since 2013, Prilepin has been recording joint tracks with rapper Rich, which are released on the musician's solo albums.

The most famous tracks were "It's time to bring down" and "In the 91st". The song "It's time to bring down" caused a sharply negative reaction from liberal critics of the writer.

By the opening of the Yeltsin Center, Prilepin and Rich recorded the song "In 91" and posted a video for it on the Web. The clip starred Andrey Merzlikin and Yuri Bykov. In their verses, the performers speak harshly about what happened in August 1991 and the events that followed. The song was highly appreciated by the organizer of Our Radio, Mikhail Kozyrev.

In 2012, Prilepin acted as an actor, playing in the TV series Inspector Cooper. In 2013, he appeared in a small role in the film adaptation of his story The Eight. Film director Alexei Uchitel comments on the participation of the writer in the film: “Prilepin, on my initiative, acted as an actor in a very small role of a taxi driver and showed an amazing comedic talent. I was smitten."

Social activity

Prilepin is the head of an initiative group to erect a monument to the poet, playwright and prose writer Anatoly Mariengof in Nizhny Novgorod. In September 2015 and February 2016, with the participation of Prilepin, memorial plaques to the poet Anatoly Mariengof were opened in Penza and Nizhny Novgorod.

In March 2014, he condemned Russian cultural figures who opposed the annexation of Crimea to Russia.

In September 2014, Prilepin visited the zone of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine as a military correspondent from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. His notes were published by a number of publications, for example, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and the socio-political Internet publication Svobodnaya Pressa (of which he has been editor-in-chief since 2012).

At the end of October 2014, Prilepin turned to his readers with a request to help Novorossia. Three million rubles were collected in three days. The purchased items, provisions and medicines for the civilian population, as well as ammunition for the militias, Zakhar Prilepin drove himself in his car at the head of a convoy with humanitarian aid. In addition, at the invitation of Prilepin, musician Alexander Sklyar gave several concerts for the residents of Lugansk.

Having organized the next fundraising for humanitarian aid to Donbass in February 2015, by March he had collected more than 12 million rubles. A documentary film "Not someone else's turmoil" was filmed about this trip. On March 23, the 360° Podmoskovye TV channel joined the fundraising. As a result, another 2 million 120 thousand 931 rubles were collected. With this and the money left over from the previous trip, medicines, food and other essential goods were purchased. In April, a humanitarian mission arrived in Novorossia. The cargoes were distributed according to collective applications and according to address lists.

July 2015 - Prilepin became the initiator, leader and participant of the Tradition literary and musical festival in New Jerusalem. Among the participants were Sergey Shargunov, Anatoly Wasserman, Eduard Limonov.

In July 2015, Ukrainian writers Yuri Andrukhovych and Sergei Zhadan refused to participate in a discussion with Prilepin that was to take place at a literary festival in Germany. Zhadan noted that he considers it pointless to discuss with “one of the Russian writers, a supporter of Novorossiya, who, after trips to Donbass, writes texts about the heroic militia and stubbornly stigmatizes the Kyiv junta.”

In the autumn of 2016, the organizers of the Polish literary festival Konrad withdrew the invitation to Prilepin, with whom they wanted to discuss the problems of nationalism as an ideologically biased person. This happened after the appeal of Ukrainian writers, who compared the situation with the invitation of Anders Breivik.

In 2017, Prilepin became a member of the anniversary committee for the celebration of the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Data

Negative

After the publication in 2012 of "Letters to Comrade Stalin" on the Internet resource "Free Press", which Prilepin himself was the editor-in-chief, accusations of anti-Semitism, xenophobia and (neo) Stalinism were made against him. “I was upset by ignorance and meanness, which are impossible for a Russian writer,” said, in particular, after reading the “Letter to Stalin”, Doctor of Art History, ex-Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydkoi. Igor Irteniev, Dmitry Bykov, Viktor Shenderovich, Veronika Dolina, Dmitry Olshansky and others sharply negatively assessed the "Letter". Prilepin's text was compared with fascism by theater director Konstantin Bogomolov and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky.

In October 2008, businessman Pyotr Aven wrote a negative review of the novel Sankya for the Russian Pioneer magazine, reproaching Prilepin and his comrades in the National Bolshevik Party, Eduard Limonov, for “they call on the people to revolution, rebellion, not understanding what consequences it can cause.

Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich evaluated the book by Zakhar Prilepin “Platoon. Officers and Militias of Russian Literature”, published in partnership with the RVIO, as potentially dangerous reading. In her opinion, "the book is biased", "incorrect" and "virtually inaccurate", "propaganda" and "manipulative".

Personal life

Creation

Books

“Dissimilar poets. Tragedies and fates of the Bolshevik era: Anatoly Mariengof. Boris Kornilov. Vladimir Lugovskoy" - 2015, ed. "Young Guard", series Life of Remarkable People

"Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature" - 2017, ed. "AST"
Publicism:
"Everything that must be resolved ..." - 2016, ed. "AST"
Benefit:
"Knigochet" (a manual on the latest literature) - 2012, ed. "Astrel"
Compilations:
"What Day of the Week Will Happen" (collection of selected stories from the books "Sin" and "Boots Full of Hot Vodka") - 2008, ed. "Yasnaya Polyana"

"Sin and Other Stories" (collection of stories including the books "Sin", "Boots Full of Hot Vodka" and 2 stories not included in these books) - 2011, ed. "Astrel"

“Peresvet is coming to us” (collection of essays based on the books “I came from Russia” and “It concerns me personally” with the inclusion of several new essays) - 2012, ed. "Astrel"

"Road in December" (collection of prose in one volume; with the exception of the collection "Eight") - 2012, ed. "Astrel"
Compiled by:
"War" (anthology of stories) - 2008, ed. "AST"
"Revolution" (anthology of short stories) - 2009, ed. "AST"
"Name day of the heart. Conversations with Russian Literature" (collection of interviews with writers and poets) - 2009, ed. "AST"
"Litperron" (anthology of Nizhny Novgorod poetry) - 2011, ed. "Books"
"Ten" (anthology of modern prose) - 2011, ed. "Ad Marginem"
"Lemon to Prison" (an anthology of memories of the modern prison of members of the NBP) - 2012, ed. "Centerpolygraph"
"14" (anthology of modern women's prose) - 2012, ed. "AST"
Library of Zakhar Prilepin. Poets of the 20th century" - 2015, ed. "Young guard"
"Limonka to the War" (anthology of military memoirs of the National Bolsheviks) - 2016, ed. "Algorithm"

Filmography

Roles in clips

Discography

Screen adaptations

"White Square" (directed by Ivan Pavlyuchkov), 2012. Screen adaptation of the story "White Square" from the book "Sin". In 2012, the film won the Bronze Frame prize at the 12th International Short Film Festival Unseen Cinema in Maardu (Estonia) and Grand Prix at the Metra International Film Festival (Russia).

"Eight" (directed by Alexei Uchitel), 2013. Screen version of the story "Eight".

Theatrical performances

"Thugs" (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, "Platform" project), 2012. Cast: Filipp Avdeev, Roman Shmakov, Alexander Gorchilin, Evgenia Afonskaya, Artur Beschastny, Yana Irteneva. Theatrical performance based on the novel "Sankya". The performance received the main Russian theater award "Golden Mask" (2012).

"Interrogation" (director Vladimir Del, theater "Limit"), 2012. Cast: Roman Danilin and Mikhail Sivorin. Theatrical production based on the story "Interrogation".

"Sankya" (director Ralf Siebelt, theater Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen - LTT), 2013.
“If you go forward for a long time” (director Alexander Maryin, Magnitogorsk Drama Theater named after A. S. Pushkin), 2014.

"Why are you so squishy?" (directed by Vladimir Del, theater "Limit"), 2015. Cast: Mikhail Sivorin. Theatrical production based on the story "Wheels". The performance became the Laureate of the XXII International Theater Festival "Christmas Parade-2015" (St. Petersburg) in the nomination "Best Solo Performance".

"Resident. 16th Company” (directed by Marina Pereleshina, “Active Theatre”, group 25/17 and employees of the State Literary Museum), 2015.

"Condemned to Happiness" (directed by Vladimir Del, BGADT named after M. S. Shchepkin, Belgorod), 2016. Theatrical production based on the stories of Zakhar Prilepin "Sin" and "Verochka".

Articles

stories

Prizes

Laureate of the Ryazan Region Prize named after Sergei Yesenin in the field of literature and art in the nomination "Creation of highly artistic, deeply moral, patriotic works in line with the realistic traditions of Russian and world classical literature" (2015)

Winner of the Ivo Andrić Prize for the novel "The Abode" and the collection "Seven Lives" (2016)
Laureate of the Prize of the Government of Russia in the field of culture (for the novel "The Abode") (2016)