Dmitry Glukhovsky

Dmitry Glukhovsky was born in 1979 in Moscow

Glukhovsky was born in Moscow in 1979 and grew up there. His father Alexei worked as an editor for Gosteleradio, and his mother Larisa was a photo editor at TASS. He came up with the idea for Metro 2033 at 15.

At 17 he left Russia to study in Israel and lived there for four and a half years. He earned a degree in journalism and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying in Hebrew.

As a journalist he worked for Euronews in Lyon from 2002 to 2005 and then for Russia Today. He covered the 2006 Lebanon War as a war correspondent and later worked at Radio Mayak. He published Metro 2033 online in 2002, and it came out in print in 2005.

His novels include Metro 2034, Metro 2035, Futu.re and Text. The Metro books became the basis of a video game series he helped write. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2019 film of Text.

In 2021 he publicly condemned the arrest of Alexei Navalny, and in 2022 he voiced support for Ukraine. Russia placed him on its wanted list and labeled him a foreign agent. In 2023 a court sentenced him in absentia to 8 years in prison, and he lives outside Russia.