Eugene Vodolazkin is a Russian author and medieval scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. He is one of Russia's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, best known for Laurus, which won the Big Book Prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Award. A History of the Island continues his exploration of Russian history, time, and identity through inventive literary fiction that blends medieval and modern worlds. His audiobooks and books have been translated into many languages, earning comparisons to Umberto Eco and Mikhail Bulgakov.
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