Biography
After completing his philology studies he worked initially as a packer, a security guard and a journalist before joining a special military unit. As a captain he took part in anti-terror deployments in Chechnya in 1996 and 1999. Having participated in two writing seminars in 2004 (with Roman Senchin and Leonid Yuzefovich amongst others) he became an author.
In 2008 he won the Russian National Bestseller Award for his book "Sin" (Russian: «Грех»).
In 2009 he was awarded with a Silver medal of the Bunin Prize for his book "TerraTartarara: It concerns Me Personally" (2009) (Russian: «TerraTartarara: Это касается лично меня»).
Prilepin was one of the organizers of the Dissenters March in Nizhny Novgorod. He is also one of the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin must go", published on 10 March 2010.
Prilepin is married and has two sons and two daughters. He lives in Nizhny Novgorod.
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