Yuriy Buyda

Yury Vasilyevich Buida is a Russian writer and journalist.

He was born into a family of office workers. He graduated from Kaliningrad University in 1982. He worked as a journalist, rising from a photo correspondent at a district newspaper to deputy editor-in-chief of a regional newspaper.

Since 1991, he has lived in Moscow, and since that same year he has been publishing prose. He worked for Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Nezavisimaya Gazeta, for the magazines Novoye Vremya and Znamya, and as a columnist for Izvestia. He is the author of the novel Don Domino (1994; shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and the book The Prussian Bride (1998), which received the Apollo Grigoriev Small Prize and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Buida was a laureate of the magazines Oktyabr (1992) and Znamya (1995, 1996).

His works have been translated into German, Polish, Finnish, French, and Japanese. Buida’s books have been published in France, Great Britain, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Norway, Turkey, and elsewhere.

He currently works as an editor at the Kommersant publishing house. His stories served as the basis for productions by the Moscow theater Et cetera under A. Kalyagin, the D Theater in Kaliningrad, and the Theatre O troupe from London.