Rubén Gallego

He lived in Russia and worked as a computer specialist until 2001, when he was reunited with his mother in Prague. Gallego lived in Freiburg, Germany, later moved to the United States. He now resides in Israel. His memoir, White on Black, about his dreadful childhood in different Soviet orphanages won the Russian Booker Prize. The book was translated into English and published, in January 2006, as White on Black: A Boy's Story. An abridged version of the memoir was read on the Book of the Week programme on BBC Radio 4 in the week of March 20–24, 2006. The book has also been translated into French (2002 by Aurora Gallego Rodríguez and Joëlle Roche-Parfenov, Actes Sud/Solin), Brazilian Portuguese (2004 by Luis Reyes Gil, Ediouro), Vietnamese (2005 by Vũ Thư Hiên), Swedish (2005 by Ola Wallin, Ersatz), Lithuanian (2005 by Andrius Šiuša), Polish (2005 by Katarzyna Maria Janowska, Wydawnictwo Znak), Finnish (2006 by Teemu Kaskinen, Sammakko), Icelandic (2007 by Helga Brekkan, JPV), Hebrew (2008 by S. Levin), Czech (2009 by Denisa Šťastná, Revolver Revue), Georgian (2009 by Nino Bekishvili), Esperanto (2010 by Kalle Kniivilä), Romanian (2019 by Liliana Radulescu and Nicoleta Silivestru), and Estonian (2020 by Valdek Kiiver).

Rubén Gallego was recorded at birth as Rubén David González Gallego. The authorities additionally record the heading Ruben Gallego. His recorded languages were Spanish, Russian and English. Other recorded relations include Ignacio Gallego.