Ekimov, Boris Petrovich

Boris Ekimov was born in the town of Igarka, Krasnoyarsk Territory, in a family of employees. He worked as a turner, locksmith, adjuster, electrician at the factory, a builder in the Tyumen region and in Kazakhstan, a labor teacher in a rural school.

As a prose writer debuted in 1965 . In 1976 he was admitted to the Union of Writers of Russia , and in 1979 he graduated from the Higher Literary Courses.

For his many years of writing Boris Yekimov has created more than 200 works. It is published in the most popular literary publications: “ Our Contemporary ”, “ Banner ”, “ New World ”, “Niva Tsaritsynskaya”, “Russia”. The most noticeable interest of the readership was caused by the publications of B. Yekimov during the “perestroika” years at the peak of the circulation of “thick editions”: collections of short stories “For Warm Bread”, “Night of Healing”, novel “Parental Home”, novel / short story “Shepherd's Star” .

Boris Yekimov is often called the "conductor of the literary traditions of the Don region."

Dmitry Shevarov, columnist for the newspaper Trud: “Anyone who has read at least one story by Yekimov must have remembered the writer. And although all his heroes are residents of Zadonsk farms, everyone will say: this is about us, about me. About our life - alarming, shattered. By the power of talent and love, the writer carefully collects these fragments into a story that I think will remain in Russian literature for a long time as an honest testimony of everything that we have experienced in the last 20 years. ”

The works of Boris Ekimov were translated into English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and other languages. His story "Shepherd's Star" is included in the Presidential Library - a series of books by outstanding works of Russian authors.

Boris Ekimov is a member of the boards of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR (from 1985 to 1991) and the Union of Writers of Russia (since 1994). He was a member of the editorial board of the weekly Literary Russia (since 1987). Member of the editorial boards of the journals " Fatherland ", "Roman-newspaper" (since 1998). Member of the Commission on State Prizes under the President of the Russian Federation (since 1997). He was a member of the jury of the Booker Prize (1997).

Boris Ekimov lives, as he often says, “in two houses”: in Volgograd and Kalach-on-Don . He is an honorary citizen of the city of Kalach-on-Don ^[1] .

In 2008, he was awarded the Solzhenitsyn Prize , on the occasion of which Alexander Solzhenitsyn himself wrote:

In many vivid stories and essays, Ekimov paints a little-familiar atmosphere of the current countryside with its new way of life, alluring opportunities and steep threats. This live stream of Ekimov’s paintings, spreading our ideas about the difficult life of today's village, helps to restore, at least mentally, the unity of the national body ^[2] .

• Winner of the award of the magazine " Our Contemporary " (1976)
• Laureate of the Literary Newspaper Award (1987)
• Prize winner I.A. Bunina (1994)
• Winner of the New World magazine award (1996)
• Winner of the first prize "Moscow - Penne" (1997)
• Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997)
• Laureate of the All-Russian Literary Prize "Stalingrad" (1999)
• Laureate of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize (2008) - “ for the acuteness and pain in describing the lost state of the Russian province and the reflection of the indestructible dignity of a humble person; for the source of a living folk language striking in prose of a writer ”
• Laureate of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize (2014)
• Laureate of the Patriarchal Literary Prize (2016) ^[3]

• The Short Story of the Bearded ( 1977 )
• Storybook “Parental Saturday” ( 2006 )
• Novel "Parental Home"
• The Story of Relatives (1990)
• The Story "Night of Healing" (1986)

• Girl in a red coat: Stories. - M .: Sovremennik, 1974. - 176 p.
• At their own: Stories. - Volgograd: Lower Volga Book Publishing House, 1975. - 128 p.
• Short Bearded Time: A Tale. - Volgograd: Lower Volga Book Publishing House, 1977. - 176 p.
• Officer: Stories. - Volgograd: Lower Volga Book Publishing House, 1978. - 192 p.
• Last Hut: Stories. - M .: Sovremennik, 1980 .-- 270 p.
• I arrived safely: Stories. - Volgograd: Lower Volga Book Publishing House, 1980. - 286 p.
• Christmas tree for mother: Stories. - M .: Soviet Russia, 1984. - 302 p.
• Kholushino Compound: Stories and Tale. - M.: Soviet writer, 1984. - 360 p.
• Private Investigation: A Tale. Stories. - Volgograd: Lower Volga Book Publishing House, 1985. - 384 p.
• For Warm Bread: Stories. - M .: Sovremennik, 1986. - 396, [2] p.
• Healing Night: Stories, a tale. - M.: Soviet writer, 1986. - 366, [2] p.
• Living Soul: Stories. - M .: Children's literature, 1987. - 189, [2] p.
• The meeting will not take place: Stories. - Volgograd: Lower Volga Book Publishing House, 1988. - 269, [1] p.
• Parent home: Roman. - M .: Sovremennik, 1988. - 270, [1] p.
• Solonich: Stories and Tale - M .: Children's Literature, 1989. - 205, [2] p.
• Denunciation: Tales and stories. - M .: Sovremennik, 1990 .-- 428 p.
• Stories; Private Investigation: A Tale. - M.: Fiction, 1991. - 413, [2] p.
• Ultimate Measure: Tales and Stories. - Volgograd: Volgogr. com according to the press, 1995. - 415, [1] p.
• Favorite: [Tales and Stories]. - In 2 t. - Volgograd: Com. Press and Inform., 1998.

  T. 1. - 606 s.

  T. 2. - 623 p.

• Pinochet: Tales and Stories. - M .: Vagrius, 2000. - 410, [2] p. - ISBN 5-264-00435-8
• The night passes: [novels, short stories] - M .: Sunday, 2002. - 598, [1] p. - ISBN 5-88528-289-7
• Under the high cross: stories. - Volgograd: Publisher, 2008. - 605, [1] p.
• No need to cry ...: [collection of stories and short stories] - M.: Vagrius, 2008. - 396, [3] p. - ISBN 978-5-9697-0595-1
• On the farm: storytelling. - M .: Time, 2009/2010. - 463 p.
• Farewell to the collective farm: essays of different years. - M .: Time, 2009/2010. - 511 p. - ISBN 978-5-9691-0420-4
• Wake up day: stories. - Volgograd: Publisher, 2013. - 414, [1] p.
• Autumn in Zadonye. The story of the earth and people. - M .: Nikea, 2016 .-- 400 p. - ISBN 978-5-91761-322-2

• The bitter wind of the earth: Bibliographic index <according to B.P. Ekimov> / Volgograd OUNB them. M. Gorky; comp. I. S. Plyukhin. - Volgograd, 1998 .-- 74 p.

• Boris Ekimov in the " Journal Hall "
• Boris Ekimov in the library of Maxim Moshkov
• Yu. Serov No need to cry - you need to live <about the work of B. P. Ekimov> // Literary Russia , January 21, 2011
• P. Zaitsev. Literature will disappear with a person <interview> // Rossiyskaya Gazeta , May 15, 2008
• L. Sycheva. Calm life <about the work of B.P. Ekimov> // Literary Russia , April 25, 2008