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	Boris Akunin: RusslandJournal.de
		Das Buch von Boris Akunin "Die Bibliothek des Zaren" ist ein spannender Krimi und ein unterhaltsamer historischer Roman mit einer raffinierten Handlung, die bis zur letzten Seite in Atem hält und einen Einblick in das moderne und alte Russland vermittelt.
		Boris Akunin (russ.: Борис Акунин) ist das Pseudonym des russischen Kritikers, Philologen und Übersetzers Grigori Tschtscharischwili.
		In Russland gehört Boris Akunin zu den beliebtesten und bekanntesten Autoren.
	www.russlandjournal.de /buecher/krimis/boris-akunin.html (550 words)

	Shots Ezine, Boris Akunin, Q&A
		Boris Akunin, author of Murder on the Leviathan, Q&A
		Someone’s voice asked: Where are you, Boris?” Then I started drawing illustrations to the text, was carried away and the novel was left unfinished.
		Boris Akunin is the Mainland Europe Guest of Honour at LEFT COAST CRIME 2006 being held in Bristol 16th - 19th June 2006.
	www.shotsmag.co.uk /features2005/akunin/akunin.html (976 words)

	Detectives at Cozy Corner: Boris Akunin
		Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chhartishvili), the Russian essayist, the literary translator, fiction writer Grigory Shalvovich Chhartishvili was born on May 20, 1956 in Georgia, and since 1958 lives in Moscow.
		Akunin, under impression from the Japanese theatre Kabuki, has acted on historical-philological branch of Institute of the countries of Asia and Africa of the Moscow State University and became Japanist.
		In September of 2000, Akunin was named the Russian Writer of the Year and was the winner of the literary prize "Antibooker" for 2000 for the novel Crowningor Coronation, the last of Romanov.
	www.cozy-corner.com /book/lit/boris_akunin.htm (501 words)

	Boris Akunin: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"Akunin" is a Japanese word that translates loosely to "villain." In his novel "Diamond Chariot," the author defines an "akunin" further as one who creates his own rules.
		In 2000 Boris Akunin was nominated for the Smirnoff-Booker prize.
		Boris Akunin's The Winter Queen was shortlisted in the category Gold & Silver Daggers for Fiction.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Bo/Boris_Akunin.htm (977 words)

	Boris Akunin - TheBestLinks.com - Africa, Asia, Anton Chekhov, France, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili), the Russian (ethnic Georgian) essayist, literary translator, and fiction writer.
		Akunin, influenced by Japanese Kabuki theatre, joined the historical-philological branch of the Institute of the countries of Asia and Africa of Moscow State University and became a Japanist.
		In September of 2000, Akunin was named the Russian Writer of the Year and was the winner of the literary prize "Antibooker" for 2000 for the novel Crowning or Coronation, or the last of the Romanovs.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Akunin.html (275 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - akunin sheds some light
		Boris Akunin, shortly to be an international man of mystery with films of his books and numerous translations.
		Boris Akunin is best known for the Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of detective novels, set for the most part in 19th-century Moscow.
		According to Akunin, the three essential qualities for a good detective novel are that it is "interesting, frightening and amusing." A mysteriously simple but successful blend that, together with the plans for the future, should ensure that Erast Petrovich, Pelagiya and all of Akunin's other creations continue to live on in the public ``imagination.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=6879 (737 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Murder on the Leviathan (Erast Fandorin Series) - Boris Akunin - Hardcover
		Snappishly witty in Andrew Bromfield's crisp translation, Akunin's dry observations on the moral poverty of the upper classes are drolly set off by his lush descriptions of the material luxuries by which they measure the value of life itself.
		Akunin writes like a hybrid of Caleb Carr, Agatha Christie and Elizabeth Peters in his second mystery to be published in the U.S., set on the maiden voyage of the British luxury ship Leviathan, en route to India in the spring of 1878.
		Akunin's most distinctive contribution is a tone of dryly amused irony that continues to the last sad line.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=gF4K9OlAuY&isbn=1400060516&itm=6 (1119 words)

	Boris Akunin
		Andererseits sehen viele in diesem Pseudoym eine Anspielung auf den großen Anarchisten Bakunin.
		Boris Akunin schreibt diese Reihe aus zwei Perspektiven.
		Dass ein Großteil seiner Leserschaft dies nicht bemerke, nimmt Akunin mit einem Schulterzucken auf – und widmet sich seiner nächsten Idee: einer Romanreihe, wobei jeder Band nach einem Genre benannt ist.
	www.krimi-couch.de /krimis/boris-akunin.html (657 words)

	Boris Akunin Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		The name Boris Akunin arrived on the Russian literary scene in 1998 with a force little precedented in the post-Soviet history of the country.
		Critics have attributed his success to the opening of a new territory in contemporary Russian letters; during the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian writing became polarized between sophisticated prose for highbrow readers and "sex-and-violence" pulp for the mass audience.
		Largely on his own, Akunin created a middle ground by writing novels widely described as "pulp for the intellectuals." In a country where reading has often been associated with cultural distinction--yet where few have the time and sensibility to tackle demanding texts--the marriage of entertainment and intellectualism received a broad welcome.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/boris-akunin-dlb (180 words)

	Erast Fandorin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Erast Petrovich Fandorin (Эраст Петрович Фандорин), fictional 19th-century Moscow detective, is the hero of the most popular historical detective stories in Russia by writer Boris Akunin.
		Boris Akunin set off to write a cycle about Fandorin with exploration of every single subgenre of detective in mind, from spy novels to serial killers.
		The Crime Writers' Association of Britain nominated Akunin for the 2003 Dagger Awards for The Winter Queen, a translation of the novel "Azazel".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erast_Fandorin (707 words)

	Akunin delights again with 'Achilles' whodunit - The Boston Globe
		In ''The Death of Achilles," Boris Akunin delights us for the fourth time with the exploits of Fandorin, the cultured, sublime sleuth.
		Akunin, the pen name for the Georgian writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, is by now an international cult figure, and for good reason.
		As the book spins toward its denouement, Akunin does a grand job presenting the back story of the death of Achilles involving all of these characters.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/05/08/akunin_delights_again_with_achilles_whodunit (571 words)

	Review \| The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
		The country was Russia, the publishing house was Zakarov, and the author was -- and still is -- Boris Akunin (the pseudonym of Gregory Chkartashvili, a translator of Japanese literature and editor of the Journal of Foreign Languages).
		That Akunin's oeuvre is now the most popular series of crime novels ever to emerge from the former Soviet Union is likely because he filled a niche no other author had sought to occupy.
		Boris Akunin's first novel will likely appeal not only to crime fiction fans, but also to those who appreciate well-crafted historical fiction.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/winterqueen.html (1797 words)

	The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
		Akunin is fascinated by the booming, corrupt, neon-splashed and creative city that now pulsates outside his door in central Moscow.
		Akunin attributed his decision to adopt a pseudonym to "pure cowardice." "I didn't want my colleagues to know I was writing crime fiction," he says in English, one of several languages in which he is comfortable.
		The pen name he chose was a typical double play on words: B (for Boris) and Akunin combine to form the surname of the 19th-century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, who died in 1876, the year Fandorin begins his adventures.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /news_detail.asp?pp_cat=41&art_id=17579&sid=7630566&con_type=1&d_str=20060429 (1249 words)

	Russia's Elmore Leonards. By Vijai Maheshwari
		Boris Akunin, a former literary critic, recently eclipsed Pelevin in both stature and sales with his finely crafted John le Carré-esque detective novels set in czarist Russia.
		Akunin's graceful books mirror the changes in Russia, which is already past its wild capitalist phase and has become less lawless and more responsible under President Vladimir Putin.
		Boris Akunin recently participated in a discussion of crime novels in the Paris Review.
	www.slate.com /id/2090622?nav=mpp (1309 words)

	Amazon.com: The Winter Queen: Books: Boris Akunin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Occasionally, Akunin's style seems a bit affected, aping the manner of, say, Thackeray, commenting on the foibles of his characters, but at the same time, that nineteenth-century tone is part of the book's appeal.
		Akunin (whose pen-name translates from the Japanese, or so I've read, as "villain" or "evil") really excels is in his creation of likable/sympathetic/ruthless "bad guys." In my opinion, nothing completes a work of violent entertainment like a great villain (think Alan Rickman in Die Hard, if you'll pardon the switch from books to movies).
		Erast (and Akunin) slowly peel away the layers of mystery and reveals in the process a world-wide conspiracy centered on a series of well run and maintained orphanages endowed by a rich, influential English noblewoman.
	www.amazon.com /Winter-Queen-Boris-Akunin/dp/0297829742 (2531 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		Boris Akunin became popular in the late 1990s when he began publishing his detective novels.
		Boris Akunin says he holds vivid discussions with Nikita Mikhalkov about the novel and the concept of the would-be film.
		The thing is that the political detective novel is key-noted with the idea of Confucius that a noble man serves to his emperor as long as his service is in keeping with his inner conviction of a proper conduct.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch180_eng.html (1849 words)

	Boris Akunin: The riddler of Russia - Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Akunin has a mind-sharpening contribution to make on the debate on whether historical authors should try, religiously, to recreate the past in every detail.
		Akunin loves the dense historical associations of London ("Jack the Ripper is one of the most famous Brits!") and I am interviewing him in a hidey-hole tucked away near St Paul's, though his stay is not as peaceful as he hoped, with a building site on one side and cathedral bells on the other.
		Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili, born in Georgia in 1956.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/features/article305249.ece (1557 words)

	Russian Fiction - Johnson's Russia List 5-12-03
		The Winter Queen of Boris Akunin’s historical crime mystery novel — the first in a series highly acclaimed in his native Russia — is clearly not designed the eclipse and glory of anything much, for it is a London hotel, somewhere in the inelegant neighbourhood of the Old Vic.
		The reader is treated (and Akunin’s accomplished writing is a treat) to a fine summary of the marvels of “Bell’s apparatus”, the recently invented telephone.
		Although Akunin’s world is Fleming’s a century back in time, his style and outlook are not, and it is a pleasant surprise to find him friendly and indulgent to his readers.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7178-11.cfm (783 words)

	OddBook.com - The Turkish Gambit : A Novel (Erast Fandorin Mysteries) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Akunin (the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili) nimbly portrays the tumultuous atmosphere of 19th-century combat, complete with ear-splitting cannon blasts and hard-charging cossacks.
		Akunin has an easy style that vididly pictures his characters, the era they are in, and more.
		Akunin seems to have most of his historical facts straight and has good character development(though the premise of this young Russian feminist seems to me to be a bit of a stretch but Akunin pulls it off well).
	www.oddbook.com /bookreview.odd?ASIN=1400060508 (1859 words)

	Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin - Book Reviews & Book Jacket Summary
		Tipping his hat to Agatha Christie, Akunin assembles a colorful cast of suspects—including a secretive Japanese doctor, a professor who specializes in rare Indian artifacts, a pregnant Swiss woman, and an English aristocrat with an appetite for collecting Asian treasures—all of whom are contained together until the crime is solved.
		Akuninâs Erast Fandorin novels feature a Slavic Sherlock Holmes who speaks Japanese and English, is skilled at martial arts and has lady-killer good looks....Millions of readers have been seduced by the booksâ elegant style and classy, retro feel.
		Akuninâs prose is clean and swift, pausing only to set a scene with a few well-chosen details before resuming the hairpin curves of the action.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1407 (730 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - boris akunin wins over nation's reading public
		Boris Akunin - that literary trickster straddling the 20th and 21st centuries - has conquered the heart of a demanding Russian public.
		This may be the author's first love, but Chkhartishvili's calling is not likely to pose much of a threat to Boris Akunin at the bookstores.
		Akunin's books can be found in most bookshops in the city.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=13298 (626 words)

	Russian London / Leviathan, Boris Akunin, trans. Andrew Bromfield / (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Leviathan IS the second of Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin detective novels, bestsellers in Russia, to be published in this country.
		In March 1878, Lord Littleby, an eccentric British collector of oriental art, is found beaten to death with a gold statuette in his Paris mansion.
		There is something very familiar about all this: the gentlemanly sleuth with superhuman powers, the blundering policeman, the closed circle of suspects, the affluent surroundings, the oriental treasure, and the mysterious foreigners (even the British qualify).
	www.russianlondon.com /print/20472 (459 words)

	PEN American Center - Boris Akunin
		Boris Akunin was born in the Republic of Georgia in 1956.
		A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, Akunin published his first detective stories in 1998.
		A profile of Boris Akunin in The Daily Telegraph.
	www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/1159 (78 words)

	Russian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Well-known writers of the period include: Anna Akhmatova, Innokenty Annensky, Andrei Bely, Alexander Blok, Valery Bryusov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sergei Esenin, Nikolay Gumilyov, Daniil Kharms, Velimir Khlebnikov, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Fedor Sologub and Maximilian Voloshin.
		Whilst Socialist realism gained official support in the Soviet Union, some of the writers -- such as Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Platonov, Osip Mandelstam, Isaac Babel and Vasily Grossman -- secretly continued the classical tradition of Russian literature, writing "under the table", with no hope of publishing such works until after their deaths.
		Detective-story writer Boris Akunin, with his series about the 19th century sleuth Erast Fandorin, publishes in Europe and in the USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_literature (1052 words)

	OddBook.com - Murder on the Leviathan : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tipping his hat to Agatha Christie, Akunin assembles a colorful cast of suspects—including a secretive Japanese doctor, a professor who specializes in rare Indian artifacts, a pregnant Swiss woman, and an English aristocrat with an appetite for collecting Asian treasures—all of whom are confined together until the crime is solved.
		Boris Akunin and his great character Erast Fandorin bring nothing new to this tired plot line.
		Boris Akunin is not just a master of thriller or mystery fiction.
	www.oddbook.com /bookreview.odd?ASIN=1400060516 (1654 words)

	eReader.com: Author: Boris Akunin
		Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the republic of Georgia in 1956; he is a philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese.
		He has written nine Erast Fandorin novels to date, and is working on two other series as well.
		Notify me when new books by Boris Akunin are released.
	www.ereader.com /author/detail/10455 (101 words)

	ThoSch:Blog » Blog Archiv » Boris Akunin - Der Magier von Moskau
		Das Buch Der Magier von Moskau ist jüngste in Deutschland erschinene Krimi des russischen Autors Boris Akunin um den russischen Detektiv Erast Petrowitsch Fandorin.
		Akunin hat bei der Reihe Fandorin ermittelt keine feste Erzählform, sondern wechselt diese.
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	www.nasobem.all.de /blog/archiv/2005/06/26/38 (503 words)

	From Russia, with death - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Moscow-based writer Boris Akunin has actually already written nine novels featuring the unassuming yet clever detective Erast Fandorin, making Akunin a best-selling author in his native land.
		For this purpose, the innovative Akunin uses narrative points-of-view from different characters, as well as a variety of formats to tell his story.
		Akunin evidently enjoys employing his vocabulary as well as painting every picture with detailed strokes.
	news.inq7.net /lifestyle/index.php?index=1&story_id=15243 (1069 words)

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