Mark Aldanov

He also wrote a tetralogy of novels about Napoleonic Wars. All in all, he published 16 larger literary works and a great number of articles and essays. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature thirteen times.

• Birth Name — Mordkhai-Markus Israelevich Landau • Born — 7 November 1886 • Birthplace — Kiev, Russian Empire • Died — 25 February 1957 • Place of death — Nice, France • Genre — Biography, fiction, criticism, essays

Mordkhai-Markus Landau (Aldanov) was born in Kiev in the family of a rich Jewish industrialist. He graduated from the physical-mathematical and law departments of Kiev University. He published serious research papers in chemistry. In 1919 he emigrated to France. During 1922-1924 he lived in Berlin and during 1941-1946, in the United States. Ivan Bunin, the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, nominated Aldanov for the Nobel Prize a total of six times - in 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, and 1950. Mark Aldanov died in Nice, France. His extensive correspondence with Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kerensky and other emigre celebrities was published posthumously.

In 1942, while in New York, Aldanov cofounded Novy Zhurnal (The New Review; Russian: Новый журнал) together with his colleague and friend Mikhail Tsetlin. Until November 1945, they both served as Editors-in-Chief of this publication, which is considered the oldest Russian language literary periodical in print published outside of Russia. Among the review's contributors were Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Bunin, Joseph Brodsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and other notable Russian emigre writers.

Source: • The Ninth Thermidor • The Devil's Bridge • The Conspiracy • St. Helena: Little Island

Source: • Punch Vodka • The Ninth Thermidor • The Devil's Bridge • Conspiracy • The Tenth Symphony • Saint Helena, Little Island • For Thee the Best • A Story About Death • Before the Deluge • Suicide • The Key (Aldanov novel) • Escape • The Cave • The Fifth Seal - The Beginning of the End • Live As You Please • Nightmare and Dawn • Moltke the Younger • Querétaro and Emperor Maximilian

Mark Aldanov is recorded with the occupation biographer. Classed in the genre historical fiction. Recorded as writer, novelist, essayist, biographer and historian.