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Anatoly Ignatyevich Pristavkin Presidential Adviser

Biography

Born in 1931 in Lyubertsy, near Moscow. Mother died when he was a child; father fought on the frontline during WWII. Brought up in children’s shelters and orphanages.

Has been working since the age of 12. At 15 worked at the airfield in Zhukovsky, Moscow region.

Education: Air Force Technical School; Gorky Institute of Literature.

1960: Took part in the construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. Correspondent for Literaturnaya Gazeta newspaper.

1961: Joined the Writers’ Union.

Has published more than 25 books.

Awarded the prestigious USSR State Prize for his novel “A Golden Storm Cloud Slept.” The novel has been translated into all major European and many other languages.

Awarded the all-German national prize for children’s literature for his story “Little Cuckoos.”

Executive committee member of the Russian PEN Center, dean of the Institute of Literature, secretary of the Writers’ Union.

January 1992-December 2001: Chairman of the Presidential Pardons Commission.

Since December 2001: Presidential Adviser.

Married, three children, four grandchildren.

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