Gennadiy Martovich Prashkevich (born May 16, 1941, Pirovskoye, Krasnoyarsk Krai

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) is a Russia

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n science fiction

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 writer and International PEN

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 member. He won the Aelita Prize

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 (1994) and Garin-Mikhaylovsky Prize (1999). He is also a poet, translator and essayist. Some of his works (Razorvanoye chudo (The Torn Miracle, 1978), Pyat kostrov rombom (Five Bonfires In A Rhomb, 1989), Shpion protiv alkhimikov (A Spy Versus Alchemists, 1994), Shkatulka rytsarya (The Knight's Casket, 1996) became popular.

Prashkevich graduated from Tomsk University and participated in various geological and paleontological expeditions to Ural

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, Kuzbass, Yakutia, Far East

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 and Kamchatka. As a science fiction writer Prashkevich debuted with the story Ostrov Tumanov (The Island of Mists) in 1957, having close ties with Ivan Yefremov by that time. His verse books include Posvyashcheniya (The Dedications, 1992) and Spor s dyavolom (A Dispute With Devil, 1996). Prashkevich's works were published in the United States

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, Great Britain

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, Germany

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, Poland

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, Bulgaria

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and in some other countries.