Aleksey Slapovsky

Slapovsky is a vital member of the new and brilliant group of Russian post-modern writers with approximately over 100 publications in periodic literary magazines, 15 book titles published and reprinted in Russia and 10 books translated into other languages.

Biography

Aleksey Slapovsky was born in 1957. Novelist and dramatist he made his name with the novel “It’s Not Me” (Russian title «Я НЕ Я»/French title “J'ai n'est pas moi”) which was short-listed for the prestigious national Booker Prize.

Slapovsky started his literary career in the 80's as dramatist and successfully carries on nowadays working on theatre plays and film scripts alongside with his main occupation of writing fiction novels. He is the most hardworking and productive author ever whose works though are not influenced by such productivity. He releases a book or two per year, a theatrical play per quarter and a bestseller film script that brings producers millions per week.

Slapovsky is flexible and enjoyable to work with: he has a great sense of humour that also goes through all of his works and makes any kind of collaboration with him easy; an incredible personality when it comes to work in person on translations, staging plays or shooting movies and what’s most important – high quality literary works to offer.

Novels

Slapovsky is a nominee and winner of many prestigious awards and prizes. His novels are all comedy and drama in one, easily apperceived by a reader of any origin and age. Raising philosophical questions and serious issues the author always uses breathtaking narrative structure that keeps a reader constantly interested and curious; clearness and simplicity of the story telling language understandable by any target group and always - a tricking twist. His humour does not have language borders and his deepness – a bottom.

Quote: “Slapovsky's humour is ebullient and his street language is just right. He writes brilliantly of the late and post-Soviet condition, but he is free from Russian obsessiveness" (Lesley Chamberlain, Prospect magazine, UK). This year’s back statement is absolutely correct nowadays as well: all what’s happening in his novels could have happen anywhere and with anybody of us.

The agency offers a variety of author’s novels including trilogies and separate additions of top quality literary and commercial fiction books. See a full description of his books.

Plays

Aleksey Slapovsky is one of the most successful Russian dramatists. His plays are performed in more then 50 theaters worldwide and translated into many languages. He became famous in his own country in the 80's, and in the early 90's his plays were staged for the first time abroad.

In 1990 the author was invited to the Eugene O’Neill Theater Centre (USA); in 1994 his play “My Little Cherry Orchard” won the first prize in the first European Drama Award contest. Since then his plays have been staged in the theaters of Germany, France, Sweden, Australia, Finland, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and others.

Slapovsky works in both comedy and drama and even creates his own genre of “comi-tragedy” which in critics opinion truly varies from pure tragic comedy but can be easily staged by theater directors in both pure comedy and existential drama. The author writes for both classical and post-modern theatres; for adults and youth. Phantasmagorias, psychological thrillers, modern parables and even “reality show” plays – that keeps Slapovsky-dramatists with over twenty years of experience always in demand on the market, as he is also always unique, brilliant and actual. See the full list of Slapovsky’s plays and synopsis for each of them.

Aleksey Slapovsky and Marina Vlady

Scripts

Aleksey Slapovsky works as successful scriptwriter since 2000. Started as the author of TV-series and sitcoms which were a tremendous success in Russia and broadcast repeatedly on national channels - he became later one of the most popular film scenario writers whose last work, for example, brought producers over 50 million US dollars only in four weeks. (It is a sequel of the old Russian movie “The Irony Of Fate” directed by Timur Bekmambetov – one of the well-known Hollywood directors recently working on the movie “Wanted” with Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman; also known from “Day Watch” and ”Night Watch” movies).

All of Slapovsky’s series also became a true national hit, triumph and classic of modern sitcom cinematography (especially “The District”, based on authors’ book); were distributed on DVD’s and viewed by over fifty million people each. Recently the author is working on the first season of a new sitcom which is kept by Russian producers as a secret but yet available through the agency in few language rights.
Slapovsky is the author of several movie scenarios based on his own books and few original film scripts which are all now on sales and guaranteed to be absolute artistic and commercially successful blockbuster. For more please visit Scripts.

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