Yury Vasilyevich Buida (born 1954) is a Russian author. He was born in Znamensk in the Kaliningrad region of Russia[1]. In 1994 his novel The Zero Train was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize[2]. His short story collection The Prussian Bride won the Apollon Grigoriev Prize in 1999, and its translation by Oliver Ready won the Rossica Translation Prize in 2005.[3]

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  1. ^ Chandler, Russian Short Stories, p. 374.
  2. ^ Russian Booker Prize website.
  3. ^ Dedalus Books website.

References

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  • Chandler, Robert (2005). Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-140-44846-2.
  • "Dedalus Books – Yuri Buida". Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  • "Russian Booker Prize, 1994". Retrieved 2009-02-05.

Category:Russian novelists Category:Russian short story writers Category:1954 births

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