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About Aleksey Slapovsky
- Aleksey Ivanovich Slapovsky (Russian: ??????´? ???´????? ??????????; born July 29, 1957) is a Russian novelist.
- He was born in Saratov region, and attended the University of Saratov where he studied philology.
- He worked variously as a school teacher, a truck driver, and a journalist for TV and radio.
- Between 1990 and 1995, he worked at the magazine Volga. Slapovsky started his literary career as a playwright in the 1980s, before switching to the novel.
- Noted works include Sincere Artist, Unwritten Novel (1990) and It's Not Me.
- He has been nominated several times for the Russian Booker Prize.
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