Igor Alekseev is a Poet and Novelist whose works are awarded by several poetry and prose awards. He was a member of the professional Writers Association of Russian Federation, respected and appreciated by readers of any origin.
Biography
Graduated from Saratov Medical University with PHD degree in medical science, he was a member of professional Writers Association who started his literary career as an author of five poetry books: “February Forecast”, “Yellow notebook”, “Pentagon’s commander”, “Russian day” and “Tram of living”.
Alekseev was a winner of Gumilev Poetry Award, 2006, St. Petersburg, regularly published in print and web magazines. His poems were also broadcasted by different Radio stations including well-known “Svoboda” (Freedom).
To read author’s poems in Russian language please visit Futurum-Art magazine.
For translation rights on his poetry please send us a request.
BOOKS
The author has published two books of prose which were longlisted for “Big Book” award price and Bunin award, Russia, 2007. Before that he was successfully published in print magazines: Futurum-Art (Moscow), Children of Ra, Znamya, Novi mir, Comments, Kreschatic (Koln, Germany), Volga 21 century (Saratov, Russia).
The agency offers translation rights to the books “How the Elephants Die” and collection of fairytales.
“How the Elephants Die” is written as the diary of the author struggling with cancer, which also includes short novels, fairytales, essays and miniatures. That’s why it is difficult to categorise the work, because it is fiction and non-fiction at the same time which makes the book absolutely unique and demanded on Russian book market (published late 2007, Moscow).
This is how the author explained the title selection: “Everybody who has read books about animals knows how the elephants die: when they become wick and old or very sick they leave their tribe to die alone.” He continues about the book itself: “Alongside with pure literature there are cruel and honest things in the book that can’t be consider as fiction, because they openly describe suffering of a human being from cancer. I literary wrote this book being on the verge of life and death”.
This book is shocking and terrifying on one hand (pages with the detail diary descriptions of everydays live in pain) and philosophical, poetic on the other hand when it comes to interdicted short stories, essays and fairytales in the main narrative structure.
One reader wrote to the author: “As a very ill person you helped me, the healthy one, to live my life better.”
Igor Alekseev pasted away on April 7, 2008 after many years of struggling with cancer.
“Fairytales of Igor Alekseev”.
That’s the Russian title of his second published book (Moscow, 2007) which applies to children, teens and adults at the same time as it is the analects of modern fairytales.
The author explains: “The book begins with typical fairytales for kids. Then some - for elder readers. To be more specific these ones are semi-fairy short stories with metaphysical and surrealistic touch. There is no flying Cyclops or such but everything what happens there can’t happen in real life...”
Learn more about this unique book.
Scripts
Last years of his life the author also successfully worked as a scriptwriter. One of his scripts (working title “The Mist/Fog”, melodrama) was bought by one of the biggest Russian TV & Cinema production companies A-MEDIA
Our agency recently offers another script by Igor Alekseev “Homo Reptiles”, a very unusual story that happens in a modern world…
The plot and further information are available upon request.
Aleksey Slapovsky
Igor Alekseev is a Poet and Novelist whose works are awarded by several poetry and prose awards. He was a member of the professional Writers Association of Russian Federation, respected and appreciated by readers of any origin.