Dmitry Galkovsky

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Dmitry Yevgenyevich Galkovsky (Russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Галковский; born 4 June 1960) is a Russian novelist, essayist, philosopher, blogger, and author of the monumental novel-treatise The Endless Dead-End (Бесконечный тупик).

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[edit] Biography

Galkovsky was born in Moscow. His father was an engineer. His mother was a tailor.[1] He graduated from school No. 51 in Moscow in 1977.[2] He began his career as an air compressors fixer at the Likhachev Automotive Factory between 1977 and 1980. In 1980 he was also briefly employed as a lab assistant at Malinovsky Military Academy of Armored Forces. Between 1981 and 1990, he earned a living by selling samizdat and literary contraband of books, banned in USSR.

Galkovsky earned a degree in philosophy in 1986 by attending night sessions of the Moscow State University. His magnum opus, the novel-treatise The Endless Dead-End (Бесконечный тупик), comprises a commentary to an initial text addressed to the Russian national character and the philosopher Vasily Rozanov, consisting of fifteen hundred hand-written pages. It was partly published in the liberal journal Novy Mir (Новый Мир) and the nationalist periodical Nash Sovremennik (Наш Современник). Galkovsky self-published his novel in full in 1997. In 2002 Galkovsky compiled and published "Duckspeak: An Anthology of Soviet poetry".

In 2003 he started a Livejournal blog, covering wide range of topics in history, culture and politics, and gaining recognition in the Russian blogosphere. In 2007 he produced a second edition of his novel at a publishing house that he expressly founded for that purpose.[3]

He is also the author of "Friend of Ducklings" (Друг Утят) film script, and leader of Ducklings movement, a group of several hundreds MMOG players and bloggers, said to aim at planetary domination through dominating in multiplayer online games.[4]

[edit] Awards

Awarded the literary prize "Antibooker" of 1997; declined to accept the monetary award.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Антикомпромат.Ру. Галковский Дмитрий
  2. ^ galkovsky: 422. НЕКОТОРЫЕ ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ СВЕДЕНИЯ О ЖИЗНИ И ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ДМИТРИЯ ГАЛКОВСКОГО
  3. ^ galkovsky: 450. ДВАДЦАТЬ ЛЕТ СПУСТЯ
  4. ^ Главный Сервер Движения Утят
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