Arkady Babchenko
'Right up there with Catch-22 or Michael Herr's Dispatches.’
Tibor Fischer
Arkady Babchenko was born in 1977. He fought as an 18-year-old conscript in the first Chechen War in 1996-8 and then volunteered to return for six months in 2000 during the second Chechen War. A law graduate, he currently works in Moscow as a journalist on the non-conformist newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and co-ordinates a website for those who served in the Russian Army in Chechnya to report their experiences.
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Arkady Babchenko is shortlisted for the 2009 Rossica Translation Prize
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