Tony Vilgotsky
| Tony Vilgotsky | |
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| Born |
14 June 1980 Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation |
| Occupation | Author, Journalist, Game Designer |
| Nationality | German |
| Genre | Horror, Fantasy |
Anton "Tony" Vilgotsky (Russian: Антон Вильгоцкий) is a Russian (ethnically German) musician, composer, horror/fantasy writer,playwright and musical columnist. He is mostly known for his novels Chosen by the Pentacle and Evil Never Sleeps as well as his articles and interviews which are published by Dark City magazine (Moscow).
Tony was born on July 14, 1980 in Southern Russian city Rostov-on-Don. He spent some time studying journalism in local university and then started to work as a correspondent in local daily newspaper.
From the teen age he was admired of horrors and that was the reason why he began to write horrors by himself. Two issues of his dark fantasy saga The Chronicles of Skharn (Russian: Хроники Схарны) were published by Armada publishing house on December 2008 and May 2009. First of these novels landed on 7th position in Top 100 bestselling books of this publishing house of several years. Such phenomenal success of debut novel was unexpected even for author himself. This book was nominated for prestigious Russian fiction award Roscon. The novel Evil Never Sleeps was nominated for one of the main awards of the fiction festival Star Bridge. Vilgotsky's next novel Little Shop of Horrors became one of the most anticipated Russian books of the following decade. His books were widely pirated and in 2010 somebody even hacked Vilgotsky's PC with intention to steal his new texts before their official release.
The novels Eye of Satan, Suburban Necromancer and The Charmed Roads were released in 2012 by company Litres which is a department of biggest Russian publishing house Eksmo.
During very long period Vilgotsky was the main author of Russian metal magazine Dark City and one of the most known Russian music journalists. During this period he interviewed such bands like Amon Amarth, Das Ich, Crematory, Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows, Suicide Commando and many more. For some time he was a literary editor of Russian horror webzine The Darkness (Тьма) and continued to write for its successor, Darker magazine. Tony Vilgotsky was one of the men who stood at the source of the first Russian horror fiction anthology. Also, though Vilgotsky himself is not gay, his articles about different gay musicians often can be noticed in Russian LGBT-magazine Kvir. Also he works as translator and music observer in Russian version of Classic Rock magazine.
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