Aleksey Slapovskiy

Slapovsky Alexey Ivanovich is a Russian writer, playwright, and screenwriter. He is a member of the Union of Russian Writers, the Union of Theater Workers, and the editorial board of the magazine Volga.

Pseudonyms: N. Zadeev, Ivan Kats Ali.

Alexey Ivanovich was born on July 29, 1957, in the village of Chkalovskoye, Saratov Oblast. In 1979 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Saratov University. After graduating from university, he worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature at a school; in 1981–1982 he worked as a loader, and from 1982 to 1989 he was a correspondent for Saratov television and radio. From 1990 to 1995 he was an editor and head of the department of fiction at the magazine Volga. In 2001 he moved to Moscow and collaborated with television and cinema (scripts for the series Stop on Demand, Fifth Corner, The District, etc.; the film The Irony of Fate. The Sequel, co-authored; as well as scripts for television films based on his own novels I Am Not Me and Phoenix Syndrome).

Alexey Slapovsky’s works have been translated into English, Hungarian, Dutch, Danish, German, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, French, Finnish, Czech, Swedish, and other languages.

Alexey Slapovsky was a member of the Union of Russian Writers and the Union of Theater Workers.

He died at 8 a.m. on January 8, 2023, of pneumonia.