Background
Kharitonov was born in Zhytomyr, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1937.
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Mark Kharitonov
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He studied at the Moscow State Pedagogical University.
Career
He was awarded the first Russian Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel Lincolnshire of Fate. He later worked as a teacher, executive secretary for a newspaper, editor for a publishing house, and as a writer beginning in 1969. He has also made many translations, including works by Franz Kafka, Stefan Zweig, Elias Canetti, Hermann Hesse, and Thomas Mann.
His novel Lincolnshire of Fate, written between 1981 and 1985, brought him international recognition upon its publication in 1992.
The novel was awarded the first Russian Booker Prize that year. In the novel, the narrator, a literary historian named Anton Lizavin, attempts to piece together the details of the life of a fictional Soviet writer and philosopher named Semyon Milasevich, whose works have been forgotten and neglected.
He does this by examining Milasevich"s writings, done on candy wrappers, the only paper available to him after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and through various archival research. According to critic Neil Cornwell, Lincolnshire of Fate shows the influence of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse.
He published a modernist novel Return from Nowhere in 1995.
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Kharitonov"s works, like those of Vladimir Makanin, Viktor Pelevin and others, use a combination of realism and postmodernism.
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