Boris Akunin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Boris Akunin
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	May 20, 1956(1956-05-20)
Age	68
Birthplace	Zestaponi
Country	Georgia
Birth City	Imereti
Horoscope	Taurus

Boris Akunin Biography

Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 20, 1956 in Zestaponi, Imereti, Georgia. Boris Akunin (Russian: Boris Akunin ) is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (Russian: Grigorii Shalvovich Chkhartishvili ; Georgian: grigori ch`xartishvili ) (born 20 May 1956) was an Russian writer. He is a well-known the author of detective and historical fiction. Also, he is an essayist as well as a literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili.

In 2003 The British Crime Writers’ Alliance placed the novel of Akunin The Winter Queen on the short list of awarding the Dagger Award in Fiction. In 2004 Akunin was part of the jury for the 26th Moscow International Film Festival.

An English remake of The Winter Queen was in production. It was set to start filming in 2007, but the leading actress, Milla Jovovich, became pregnant, and the production process was delayed to unknown date.

Additionally, Pelagia and the White Bulldog was made into a TV mini-series in 2009, while The Spy Novel came out in a 2011 theatrical release as The Spy.

In 1999, Akunin received nominations for the Smirnoff Booker Prize. On September 20, 2000, Akunin received the title of Russian Author of the Year. He received the “Antibooker” prize in 2000 for his Erast Fandorin novel Coronation which is the final novel of the Romanovs.

Boris Akunin Net Worth

Boris Akunin is one of the richest Writer from Georgia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Boris Akunin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chkhartishvili was born in Zestaponi to the Georgian father, and Jewish mother. He was a resident of Moscow from 1958 until 2014. In the years since, he has been in Britain, France and Spain. Influenced by Japanese Kabuki theatre, he joined the historical-philological branch of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University as an expert on Japan. He worked as an assistant in the office of editor-in-chief for the journal Foreign Literature, but left in October of 2000 to pursue an opportunity as a novel writer.

As his name suggests, Grigory Chkhartishvili, the author works as the editor- in-chief of 20 volumes in the Anthology of Japanese Literature, chairman of the board of directors of a huge “Pushkin Library ” (Soros Fund) and the writer of The Writer and Suicide (Moscow, The New Literary Review 1999). He has also written literary criticism and translations of Japanese, American and English literature under his own name. The left-handed author is and has been famous for smoking pipes.

In November 2007, AST, one of the publishing houses with which Akunin is affiliated, came out with a historical mystery novel by a new author, Anatoly Brusnikin, called Девятный спас (Devyatny Spas, The Ninth Savior). Despite the fact that Brusnikin was a complete unknown, AST spent lavishly on an advertising campaign for the book, which almost immediately resulted in rumors that Brusnikin might actually be Akunin in a new disguise.

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Boris Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Georgia. Boris Akunin celebrates birthday on May 20 of every year.