Eleonora Genrikhovna Ratkevich ( Latvian: Eleonora Ratkeviča , born July 18, 1961 , in Riga ) is a Latvian-Russian writer, known for her series of novels The Wooden Sword, as well as for separate novels The Mercenary of the Dead Gods, The Paradoxes of the Younger Patriarch and . He writes mainly in the fantasy genre . For the novel "Wooden Sword" received the prize " Big Zilant " in 2007.
| Eleanor Ratkevich | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Occupation | a writer |
| Direction | fantasy |
| Language of Works | Russian |
| Awards | Big Zilant (2007) |
Lives in Riga , Latvia .
Biography
Born in Riga in 1961, she graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Latvia , worked as an editor of a department in a scientific and technical library, a junior research fellow at a medical institute, and a teacher at a school. “I was registered” in the mass group of the Riga film studio, studied karate, studied foreign languages, Chinese and Japanese classical literature and philosophy (translated), played amateur performances, was fond of drawing.
Awards and Prizes
- " Big Zilant " in 2007 - the novel "Wooden Sword"
- nomination: Aelita , 1997 // Start Prize, a collection of novels and short stories “Mercenary of the Dead Gods”
- nomination: Interprescon , 1997 // Large form - the novel "Jet from Dzhevevena"
- Nomination: Bronze Snail , 1997 // Large form - the novel "Jet from Dzhevevena"
- nomination: Interpresscon, 1997 // The average form is the story “The Executioner Merkhina”
- Nomination: Bronze Snail, 1997 // Medium - “Merkhina's Executioner”
- nomination: Wanderer , 2001 // nomination for the genre award "Sword in the Stone" - novel "The Hilt of the Sword"
- nomination: “Results of the year” from the magazine “ Fantasy World ”, Results of 2008 // Books - The best domestic thematic collection “Our business is right”
Bibliography
Some works are co-written with Sergey Ratkevich.
Series
Wooden sword
- Wooden sword ( 1997 );
- The hilt of the sword ( 2000 );
- Sword without a hilt ( 2001 ) [1] .
Nailis cycle
- Tae eckeyr! ( 2003 );
- Lare-i-t'ae ( 2004 ).
Selected Novels
- Mercenary of the Dead Gods ( 1996 );
- Jet from Getheven (1996);
- Paradoxes of the younger patriarch ( 2002 ).
Tales and Stories
- Closer to death and farther than happiness ( 1991 , as part of the collection “Closer to death and farther than happiness” in 2005 ) is a story.
- Brothers and birds (in the collection “Closer to death and beyond happiness”, 2005).
- Time of silver (in the collection "Time of gold, time of silver", 2005) [2] .
- Caterpillar (in the collection "Closer to death and beyond happiness", 2005)
- Flying dog (in the collection "Closer to death and beyond happiness", 2005).
- The Code of Immortality (in the collection “Closer to Death and Beyond Happiness”, 2005).
- The Executioner Merkhina (1996).
- Major Winter's gun.
- Above Honor (in the collection “Closer to Death and Beyond Happiness”, 2005).
- Listen flutist! (1996) - a story.
- Wardrobe (as part of the collection “Closer to Death and Beyond Happiness”, 2005).
- I will kick you! (as part of the collection “Closer to Death and Beyond Happiness”, 2005).
- Disguises of love (as part of the collection “Our cause is right” 2008 )
- Hello, I'm your mother-in-law! (story, in the collection "Heroes for All Times", 2010) [3]
- Like a cat with a dog (in the collection "Elves and their hobbies", 2013)
- cycle "Patrick Shenahan"
- Killer needs a detective (2014)
- Minister needs a thief (2015)
- Thief needs a judge (2015) [4]
Literature
- Dmitry Skiryuk Review of the novel “The handle of the sword”
- Dmitry Skiryuk Review of the novel "Sword without a hilt"
- Review of the collection “Closer to Death and Beyond Happiness” in the magazine “ Fantasy World ”
- Sergey Chuprinin Abroad. Russian literature today. (dictionary) - M. , Vremya Publishing House , 2008. P.344 [ specify ] - ISBN 978-5-9691-0292-7
Notes
- ↑ Difficult to accurately determine the kind of fantasy in which this cycle is written, Boris Nevsky calls it an “adventurous-heroic“ pedagogical poem “”. See Boris Nevsky Genres. Russian fantasy in the journal World of Fantasy No. 11; July 2004
- ↑ Dmitry Zlotnitsky Until death and beyond. Book review: Vera Kamsha, Eleanor Ratkevich, Sergey Ratkevich "Time of Gold, Time of Silver" in the magazine " World of Fantasy " No. 31; March 2006 - “Unlike the sad story of Kamsha, the works of the Ratkevichs are full of optimism, faith in the future, and happiness for all heroes practically for nothing. Already on the second page of acquaintance with each new character, it becomes clear what he is, and all the positive people are happy to work together, overcoming all life's troubles and defeating petty dirty villains. ”
- ↑ “... the experienced Nick Perumov , Vera Kamsha and Eleanor Ratkevich, announced in the cover announcement, guarantee a stable quality of texts. His, of course, not neighboring ones. ... In “Hello, I am your mother-in-law,” Ratkevich is curious about the mechanism of action of a love potion. ” - review of the collection“ Heroes for All Times ”in the Omsk newspaper“ Commercial News ”, issue No. 46 dated November 24, 2010: Children of Martha.
- ↑ “Every year in AST there is a collection of steampunk - a genre that until recently was not very popular, but now has become one of the key ones. The compilers Lyudmila Dyomina and Vyacheslav Bakulin invite authors, mostly known for their novels. After the third anthology, Eleanor Ratkevich, Vera Kamsha, Vladimir Sverzhin, Elena Mikhalkova actually proved that they can write cool not only large form, but also short. ” © Michael Gelprin In short , Russian Pioneer magazine, March 22, 2016
Links
- The official website of the writer .
- Information about Eleanor Ratkevich on the website Fantasy Laboratory