Sergey Lukyanenko

In 1999, he became the youngest writer among his Russian colleagues to be awarded the oldest Aelita prize, which is awarded to writers for their significant contribution to the development of the fantasy genre.

The works of Sergei Lukyanenko, capturing and not letting go until the moment of reading the last line, according to him, are written in the genre of "hard action fantasy". Fans of the Watch series will understand why the science fiction writer chose this characterization for his writing.

The screen version of The Night Watch and the subsequent novels of the cycle brought Lukyanenko fame and the status of a cult writer.

The future science fiction writer was born in April 1968 in the picturesque Karatau, a city nestled against the northern slope of the mountain range of the same name. Lukyanenko spent his childhood and youth in Kazakhstan, his formation as a writer. The family of Sergei Lukyanenko is difficult to call creative: his parents and older brother are doctors. My father chose psychiatry, my mother - narcology, brother - a psychotherapist.

Writing attracted Sergei from a young age. At first, the boy read the works of science fiction writers. At the age of 5 he read the novel by Ivan Efremov "The Andromeda Nebula", at the age of 7 he was carried away by the works of the Strugatsky brothers, was the first to "swallow" the book "The Land of Crimson Clouds" in one breath, then re-read all the works of the famous brothers.

As a child, then as a teenager, Sergei Lukyanenko avidly read literature of all genres. Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens instilled excellent taste and style, but the soul soared only when Seryozha plunged into the fictional world of Vladislav Krapivin and Robert Heinlein. Later, it was them that Sergei Vasilyevich would call the writers whom he imitated in his first works.

After graduating from school with a gold medal, the young man followed the beaten path by his parents and brother: he became a student at a medical university. Writing still attracted, but at first Sergei Lukyanenko did not associate life with literary work. He graduated as a psychiatrist and got a job in a psychiatric dispensary. A year was enough for the young man to melt illusions and the desire to write the chapter "Medicine" in his biography.

In the early 1990s, Sergei Lukyanenko got a job at the editorial office of the Miry magazine in Almaty and soon took the place of deputy editor. Since the mid-1990s, Lukyanenko finally abandoned his studies that prevented him from concentrating his efforts on creativity, and plunged into the world of creating fantastic stories.

Sergei Lukyanenko began to write on the table in the mid-1980s, during his student days. The first essay - a story called "Violation" - was published in 1988. It is written in the science fiction genre.

After the debut, the stories of the young writer were willingly published by the magazines "Zarya" and "Ural Pathfinder". Thanks to publications in the latest, popular educational monthly about tourism, they learned about the novice science fiction writer in Russia and abroad. The works of Sergei Lukyanenko are published in the Indian magazine for youth, in American publications. A filing writer from Kazakhstan is invited to festivals and seminars where venerable colleagues gather.

In 1989, Sergei Lukyanenko took up his first novel, which he finished in 1990. By this time, two science fiction stories were published in "Young Guard" and "Ural Pathfinder" - "The Thirteenth City" and "The Marina of Yellow Ships."

Lukyanenko, inspired by the warm responses of readers and literary critics, writes a lot and works tirelessly. In the next two years, 3 novels appear, Sergei is taken to the stories "Boy and Darkness" and "Atomic Dream". New science fiction stories are published in various "thick" magazines, the novice writer is awarded incentive cash prizes.

In the mid-1990s, Sergei Lukyanenko acquired a computer, acquaintance with which gives rise to the first part of the dilogy - the novel "Line of Dreams". His writing as a novelist was prompted by his passion for video games. In the same year, in early autumn, the second part of the dilogy, entitled "Emperors of Illusions", was published.

In the spring of 1996, the writer took up novels, the plots of which he had been hatching for a long time. Soon, science fiction fans are welcoming the release of the books "Stars are cold toys" and "Labyrinth of reflections" And in the fall, Sergei Lukyanenko leaves Kazakhstan and moves to Moscow. Ten years later, the entire family of the novelist moved to the capital.

In 1997, two books of the Star Labyrinth series were published, but the next year turned out to be fateful in Lukyanenko's biography, when the Dozor series of novels began. After being screened in the 2000s, Sergei Lukyanenko turns into a legend. He wrote the scripts for The Night's Watch and The Day's Watch. Films directed by Timur Bekmambetov were a resounding success.

In 1998, a writer from Karatau published the story "Shadows of Dreams", which was included in the "Line of Dreams" series (the first name was "Dancing in the Snow"). The story of the Orthodox colony and the invasion of the planet by the Psilon landing ship is fascinating. It continues the storyline of the two previous books of the trilogy.

In the early 2000s, Sergei Lukyanenko presented to fans a new novel called "Spectrum", which tells about humanity, which has learned to travel between worlds through portals. Readers instantly sold out the first edition of the book, the novel was reprinted several times.

In the middle of the first decade of the 2000s, the novel "Cripples" and the novel "Draft" were published. The first work about genetically modified people was included in the "Genome" cycle along with the novel of the same name. The second - "Draft" - is about a person whom someone's hand "erased" from life. Sudden loneliness sets before the hero conditions in which previously unknown character traits are revealed.

"Clean copy", a continuation of "Draft", appears in 2007. In it, readers again meet their beloved hero Kirill Maksimov, who was prompted by an anonymous telephone number and opened portals to other worlds.

Two years later, Sergei Lukyanenko presented a gift for the youngest fans - the novel "Knotty", which is inhabited by minotaurs, necromancers and zombies. At the request of the writer, the book is illustrated by the graphic artist Yevgenia Sterligova.

In 2013, the science fiction writer delighted fans of the genre with the first novel of the Borderland cycle, called Zastava. The story of a fictional world, called Centrum by its founders, hit bookstore shelves in November and found thousands of fans who demanded a continuation from the author.

Films based on the novels and stories of Sergei Lukyanenko are favorably received by viewers of the post-Soviet space. In addition to two "Patrols", the novel "Today, Mom!" The painting was named "Aziris Nuna".

Lukyanenko first appeared on the screens in 2011. The audience saw their favorite author in the company of his colleague Vladimir Vasiliev, co-author of the novel of the "sentinel" cycle. The writers took part in the Ukrainian New Year TV project based on the beloved Dozors.

The writer met his future wife Sofia Kosichenko in February 1990, and in September the couple went to the registry office.

Sofia was born in Almaty, graduated from the university, where she received a degree in psychology. For ten years she worked in her specialty, her wards were children. Then she got a job as a teacher at the alma mater. After moving to the capital, Sofia Lukyanenko teaches psychology at the Humanities University, defended her Ph.D. thesis.

Sergei and Sofia Lukyanenko are happy parents of three children - the sons of Artemy and Daniel and the daughter of Nadia, who was born in 2012. All the offspring of the science fiction writer appeared in Moscow.

Terrier Busya with offspring lives in the writer's house. Sergey Vasilievich collects a collection of figurines of mice. He smoked a pipe until 2006, but found the strength to part with his addiction and became interested in cooking.

In 2017, Sergei Lukyanenko opened a Facebook account and willingly communicates with subscribers.

In the summer of 2016, the novelist presented fans of the fantasy genre with a new work called "Kvazi". This is the first novel about zombie creatures, the events described in it take place in the capital in the near future. Kvazi are people who managed to return from a zombie state to an intelligent life.

In 2017, it became known that producers and directors were interested in other Lukyanenko's novels. Director Sergei Mokritsky began screening the novel "Draft" at the end of 2016, the release of the film was announced for 2018. Mikhail Khleborodov is busy with the filming of the second novel, The Labyrinth of Reflections. The presumptive title of the painting is "Depth". In 2017, the shooting of the film started, which was based on the novel "The Twilight Watch".

1989 - "Atomic Sleep" 1990 - "Marina of Yellow Ships" 1992 - "Knights of the Forty Islands" 1996 - "Dream Line" 1996 - "Emperors of Illusion" 1996 - "Stars are Cold Toys" 1997 - "Boy and Darkness" 1997 - " The Labyrinth of Reflections "1998 -" Night Watch "2000 -" Day Watch "2002 -" Spectrum "2003 -" Twilight Watch "2004 -" Cripples "2005 -" Draft "2007 -" Clean copy "2009 -" Knotty "2012 -" New Dozor "2013 -" Zastava "2016 -" Kvazi "

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