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Fazil Iskander


Born
in Sukhumi, Georgia
March 06, 1929

Died
July 31, 2016

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Fazil Abdulovich Iskander, also known in Russian as Фазиль Искандер, arguably the most famous Abkhaz writer, renowned in the former Soviet Union for his vivid descriptions, mostly written in Russian, of Caucasian life. He has written various stories, most famously "Zashita Chika", which star a crafty and likable young boy named "Chik".

The most famous intellectual of Abkhazia, he distanced himself from the Abkhaz secessionist strivings in the late 1980s and criticised both Georgian and Abkhaz communities of Abkhazia for their ethnic prejudices. He warned that Abkhazia could become a new Nagorno-Karabakh.

He was probably best known in the English speaking world for Sandro of Chegem, a picaresque novel that recounts life in a fictional Abkhaz v ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 2,075 ratings · 177 reviews · 165 distinct works • Similar authors
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Sandro of Chegem
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Созвездие козлотура
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Chik and His Friends
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“Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.”
― Fazil Iskander
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“Čovjek može učiniti sudbonosni korak mimo svakog smisla, a možda i u inat svakome smislu, naročito ako je taj čovjek žena.”
― Fazil Iskander, Old House Under the Cypress Tree
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“Я уже знал, что, если девушка слишком смеется над своим поклонником, а тот достаточно упорен, она может выйти за него замуж хотя бы под тем предлогом, что ей с ним весело.”
― Fazil Iskander, Созвездие козлотура
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