Alexei Makushinsky addresses the subjects of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, particularly the psychology of revolution; the mental and ideological premises of the revolutionary action.

Language Resources Centre
K-1.072 – first basement
King’s Building, Strand Campus
(overview map here)

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Born in Moscow in 1960 and having graduated from the Gorky Literary Academy, Alexei has lived in Germany since 1992. Alexei debuted as a writer in 1998 and has published three novels in Russian – Max (1998), Town in Valley (2013), and Steamship to Argentina (2014) – as well as several collections of poetry and essays.

He was the winner of the Rudomino Prize of the Library of Foreign Literature in 2012, a Big Book Award finalist (2014), and a laureate of the Russian Literature Prize (2015).

In addition to working as a translator between English, German, and his native Russian, Alexei has been an instructor at the University of Mainz’s Institute of Slavistics since 2010, and his own works have been translated into both Serbian and German. A new French translation of his novel Steamship to Argentina is set for release in 2017.

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