Russian writer and journalist Dmitry Alekseevich Glukhovsky: biography, creativity and interesting facts

Glukhovsky Dmitry Alekseevich is a writer of a new type. This is one of the first representatives of the "network literature", he is actively experimenting with the form and submission of literary material. Despite his youth, Dmitry Glukhovsky had already done a lot. He lives a busy and very interesting life and he owes all his success to himself. Than not the "hero of our time"?

Childhood and family

Dmitry Alekseevich Glukhovsky was born in Moscow on June 12, 1979. The Glukhovsky family has a long and interesting history. His maternal relatives live in the village of Manturovo, Kostroma Region. Dmitry was sent there every summer to breathe air and join the village life. There he had to collect pests in the garden, chop wood, carry water from a well, help his grandmother to bake pies in a Russian stove. This despite the fact that on the paternal line he came from a professorial family.

Dima's great-grandfather was an outstanding urologist. It was from him that he left a luxurious apartment in the Arbat house. Grandfather Glukhovsky was a geologist, a traveler, and his grandmother soon divorced him and married the artist of the magazine "Crocodile", the son of one of the famous KUKRYNIKS.

Dmitry's parents studied together at journalism, but after the birth of his son, Mum focused on the education of a rather painful Dima. Dmitri's father worked for Gosteleradio, was a reporter, and also translated Serbian poetry. He also wrote his own poems. It is the picture of how the father sits in the evenings in the kitchen and knocks on his typewriter, became the most vivid recollection of Dmitry's childhood. Later, this device Dmitry received from his father "in the inheritance."

Dmitry in his early childhood decided to become a writer, and he did not wait to grow up, but immediately began writing his novel about politics, Lenin, about life in the USSR. Glukhovsky was a very gifted child - he began to read and write at 2.5 years.

Education

By the school Glukhovsky Dmitry Alekseevich already knew a lot, so it was boring to study at a famous school in the Arbat with in-depth study of the French language. This school was a kind of hereditary in the family of Dmitry - in it studied his grandmother, then his father. Dmitri studied well, but physics and astronomy were given to him with difficulty. But then his ability to invent exciting games, in which the whole school gradually began to play, was already manifested.

When Dmitry graduated from high school, his father urged him to become an economist. None of the relatives believed that the young man really decided to become a writer.

At the time of its release, there was a big fashion for studying abroad, and parents were able to send Dmitry to Israel. There he first learned Hebrew for six months, then studied for six months at the preparatory courses, and then entered the University of Jerusalem at the Faculty of Social Sciences with a specialization in economics and journalism. With the economy, he did not develop very well, but with journalism, he immediately got along.

Work as a journalist

At the end of the university journalist Glukhovsky Dmitry Alekseevich goes to France to work on the EuroNews channel. For three years he worked enthusiastically as a correspondent, but soon he was bored. This, he says, is his big trouble - he gets bored quite quickly. Then he found himself a new fascinating job: he became a correspondent for Russia Today. Here he was able to combine journalism and travel: he traveled around 50 countries, met with a variety of people. His specialization was military journalism, Dmitry and today is one of the best reporters on "hot spots". He tried himself as a radio and TV presenter, but this did not carry him away for long. Today he leads the columns in the magazines "Snob" and GQ.

First book

Dmitry Alekseevich Glukhovsky began his first novel "Metro 2033" when he was still at school. Then, over a period of 15 years, he finished the book between the deeds and in 2002, finished it. He began to send manuscripts to the editorial office, insistently waited for a review, until he was advised in one publishing house to completely rewrite the ending of the novel. Then he realized that he would not be able to print, and the young writer was very anxious to know the opinion of people about his work.

By this time Glukhovsky was already an advanced Internet user. And he decided that the easiest way to find his reader is to put the book on the Web. So he became a pioneer of "network literature" in Russia. Dmitry made a website, laid out a book and began to invite people from different forums about fantasy, ask to read it and express their opinion. The audience accepted the novel very well, although there were also critics pointing to various inaccuracies. Two years later, the novel was published in paper form, and two more survived the reissue.

To date, this novel remains the most famous book of Glukhovsky.

Creation

The second book of Dmitry "Twilight" also became a national bestseller. This mystical-fantastic story is devoted to the description of the apocalypse. Glukhovsky in his novels often reflects on the eternal and personal, in each of his works there are reminiscences from the author's private history or references to events from the life of friends.

To date, Glukhovsky published five novels, several collections of short stories and individual novels. The last novel to date - "Metro 2035" - Glukhovsky Dmitry Alekseevich wrote in 2015. This work completed the series about the metro, and the author says that he has exhausted this topic.

All his books, Dmitry first puts on the Internet. He also uses the possibilities of the Web, creating illustrations and even soundtracks for his texts.

Personal life

Dmitry Alekseevich Glukhovsky very carefully protects his private life. Although often in his novels he describes the details of his life, sometimes quite intimate. It is known that Glukhovsky is married and he has a daughter Emilia of five years old, who, like her father, began to read very early, and the son of Theodore. With his wife Elena, Dmitry met, working for Russia Today (she was his producer).

Interesting Facts

Dmitry Alekseevich Glukhovsky as a journalist led a report from the North Pole, visited the Chernobyl zone and Baikonur. He is fluent in five languages. His first novel was sold in million copies and translated into 37 languages, and the film was bought by a Hollywood film company.