12 Facts About Boris Akunin

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Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili, a Russian-Georgian writer.

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Boris Akunin is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction.

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Boris Akunin's characters include Erast Fandorin, Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia.

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Boris Akunin was engaged in literary translation from Japanese and English.

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Boris Akunin worked as assistant to the editor-in-chief of the magazine Foreign Literature, but left in October 2000 to pursue a career as a fiction writer.

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Boris Akunin has contributed literary criticism and translations from Japanese, American and English literature under his own name.

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Under the pseudonym Boris Akunin, he has written many works of fiction, mainly novels and stories in the series The Adventures of Erast Fandorin, The Adventures of Sister Pelagia, The Adventures of the Master, all published in Russia by Zakharov Books, and the Roman-Kino series set during World War I Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia.

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Boris Akunin publishes critical and documentary works under his real name.

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Boris Akunin has been critical of Vladimir Putin's domestic and foreign policies, including the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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In September 2000, Boris Akunin was named Russian Writer of the Year and won the "Antibooker" prize in 2000 for his Erast Fandorin novel Coronation, or the last of the Romanovs.

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In March 2013, Boris Akunin announced in his blog that he was going to wind down his career in detective fiction and begin concentrating his energy on a new big project, History of the Russian State.

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Boris Akunin has said he has no definite plans to write more Brusnikin novels, though he remains open to the possibility.