Boris Akunin
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Boris Akunin in 2013
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| Born | Grigol Chkhartishvili May 20, 1956 Zestaponi, Georgia, USSR |
| Pen name | Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, Akunin-Chkhartishvili |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, translator |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University |
| Period | 1980s–present |
| Genre | detective and historical fiction |
| Notable works | Erast Fandorin series |
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Boris Akunin (Russian: Борис Акунин) is the pen name of Grigol Chkhartishvili (Russian: Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили; Georgian: გრიგოლ ჩხარტიშვილი) (born May 20, 1956), a Russian writer of Georgian and Jewish origin. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova and Akunin-Chkhartishvili.
Chkhartishvili was born in Zestaponi to a Georgian father and a Jewish mother and since 1958 has lived in Moscow. Influenced by Japanese Kabuki theatre, he joined the historical-philological branch of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University as an expert on Japan. He 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.
Under his given name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, he serves as editor-in-chief of the 20-volume Anthology of Japanese Literature, chairman of the board of a large "Pushkin Library " (Soros Fund), and is the author of the book The Writer and Suicide (Moscow, The New Literary Review, 1999). He has also contributed literary criticism and translations from Japanese, American and English literature under his own name. He is left handed, and has been known to smoke a pipe.
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