Aleksandr Kabakov was born on 22 October 1943 in
Novosibirsk, where his family had been evacuated during
World War II. He studied mechanics and mathematics in
Dnipropetrovsk, and worked in a missile factory after graduation. Eventually, he landed at the railroad industry newspaper ''
, where he worked for more than a decade; he also worked at Moscow News and Kommersant''. He became well known during the
Perestroika period for his
dystopian novel No Return, which was translated into multiple languages and also adapted into a film. The English translation was done by
Thomas Whitney. Other noted works include
The Last Hero (1995) and ''Nothing's Lost'' (2003), which won the second jury prize from the
Big Book Award and the . With
Yevgeny Popov, he co-wrote a book of reminiscences about the writer
Vasily Aksyonov that was shortlisted for the 2012 Big Book Award. He died in Moscow on 18 April 2020. ==Works==