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Alexander Goldstein

Alexander Goldstein was a Russian-language writer and essayist who lived in Tel Aviv from the early 1990s.

1957 to 2006Russian-language essays and proseThe book Parting from NarcissusThe novel Remember Famagusta

Born: 15 December 1957, Tallinn
Died: 16 July 2006, Tel Aviv
Occupation: writer, journalist, essayist, literary scholar
Education: Baku State University

Alexander Goldstein was born in 1957 in Tallinn

Goldstein was born in Tallinn in 1957. His father, Leonid Goldstein, was a journalist and man of letters, and his mother translated from French and Spanish. As a child he moved with his family to Baku.

He studied literature at Baku State University. In 1988 he completed a doctorate on relations between European and Muslim literature in the 18th century.

He moved to Israel with his parents and settled in Tel Aviv, where he kept writing in Russian. He worked as a journalist for Vesti and other Russian-language publications and served on the editorial board of the journal Zerkalo. His first book, Parting from Narcissus, appeared in 1997 and won the Little Booker Prize.

He later published Aspects of Spiritual Matrimony and the novel Remember Famagusta. He died of lung cancer in Tel Aviv in 2006. His last novel, Quiet Fields, appeared that year, and he was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize after his death.