Biography of Boris Strugatsky

Subscribe to new items will send a notification of new books, audiobooks, podcasts Boris Strugatsky - Soviet Russian writer, author of scripts, translator. With his brother Arkady, he created a number of works included in the list of classics of Russian scientific and social science fiction. Born on April 15 in Leningrad in a family of intellectuals. During the blockade of the author about the author, Boris Strugatsky is a Soviet Russian writer, author of scripts, translator.

The life path during the blockade of Leningrad Arkady and his father went into evacuation, the mother and Boris were forced to stay in the besieged city. Nathan Strugatsky died on the road. Arkady managed to take out the mother and brother only in the year, and with the end of the war, the family again returned to Leningrad. Boris graduated from a school with a silver medal and was going to enter the Faculty of Physical Faculty of Leningrad State University.

Having failed, he submitted documents to the Mehmat. In the year he graduated from the university at the astronomy department. During his studies, Boris was seriously carried away by the theme of the cosmos, which later resulted in a love of science fiction. After the release, Boris entered the graduate school of the Pulkovo Observatory, but failed to defend the dissertation.

He remained in the position of engineer-operating, worked with the counting and analytical machines. In the year, as part of a geodetic and astroclimatic expedition, he visited the Caucasus. For some time he continued to work in the observatory. In the years, he headed the Leningrad seminar of young science fiction writers, now known as the "seminar of Boris Strugatsky." He established the Bronze Snail Award, headed the editorial office of the magazine afternoon.

XXI century. " He was fond of philately, which was reflected in his work. He died on November 19 after a serious long illness. The body was cremated and, as the writer bequeathed, dispelled over Pulkovo heights. Boris wrote literary work in co -authorship with his brother Arkady Strugatsky. It is customary to attribute their joint work to a fantastic genre, although Boris Natanovich insisted that he and his brother write “realistic science fiction”, where a person and his fate occupy a central place.

After the death of his older brother in the year, Boris continued to write on his own, taking the pseudonym S. During this period, books are published: “Search for purpose, or twenty -seventh ethics theorem”; "The powerless of this world." The latest work is devoted to the history of the creation of the works of the Strugatsky brothers. In addition, a lot of materials came out on the official website of the writers, where Boris answers numerous questions of fans.

In addition to independent works, the brothers were engaged in translations that were published under the pseudonym S. Zhezhkov, S. Vitin, S. also translated Cobo Abe and other Japanese authors, since Arkady Strugatsky was a translator from Japanese. Similar authors.