Andrei Viktorovich Dmitriev (; born 7 May 1956) is a Russian novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 2012

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for his novel ''The Peasant and the Teenager''.

Biography

Dmitriev was born in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

in 1956. His first short stories were published in the 1980s. He first became known in Russian literary circles for his novellas ''Voskoboev and Elizaveta'' (1992) and ''The Turn of the River'' (1995). He studied literature at

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withdrawing in 1977 to enroll in the

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, graduating in 1982. His works have been published in the Russian journals

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, and Druzhba Narodov. Dmitriev also writes filmscripts. His novel ''The Peasant and the Teenager'' was awarded the 2012

References

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