Alexander Goldstein (1957 - 2006)
Alexander Leonidovich Goldstein ( Russian : Александр Леонидович Гольдштейн ; born ( 1957-12-15 ) 15 December 1957, Tallinn , Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic — 16 July 2006 ( 2006-07-16 ) , Tel-Aviv , Israel ) — was a Russian writer and essayist. He was awarded the Russian Little Booker Prize , the Anti-Booker prize and the Andrei Bely Prize (posthumously, in the category for prose ). Biography and Work Alexander Goldstein was born in Tallinn, the son of Leonid Goldstein, a man of letters. From his early childhood on, he lived in Baku , where he later studied literature at Baku State University . From 1991 he lived in Tel-Aviv. Goldstein worked as a journalist for the newspaper Vesti , as well as other Russian-language publications, and sat on the editorial board of the Russian-Israeli journal Zerkalo . His articles were published in the books Расставание с Нарциссом ( Parting from Narcissus ) and Аспекты духовного брака ( Aspects of Spiritual Matrimony ). The first of t...
