Biography
The writer Alexander Mazin considers writing not a profession, but a lifestyle, refers to fiction as a quintessence of literature, since every artistic work, be it a fairy tale, a love romance or a detective, generated by the author's fantasy."The writer is never lonely, with him always his heroes," says the writer.The total circulation of prose books exceeds 3 million copies.
Childhood and youth
Alexander Mazin believes that the writer is judged by books, and there is little in numerous interviews about childhood and youth. It is known that, like the sciences of Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, the writer was born in Ukraine. Mazina's hometown is Zaporizhia, and sometimes the prose is misses the aroma of river water, mixed with the smell of gasoline - this bouquet reminds him of Dnieper and youth.
Sasha Mazin studied perfectly in the 28th school of Zaporozhye, won the Olympics in mathematics and biology, wrote poems, loved the story and participated in archaeological excavations, but the future profession chose chemistry. At the age of 17 he entered the Leningrad Institute of Technology and forever tied life with the city on the Neva.
In his youth, Alexander was fascinated by martial arts, travels to his native land and poetry. After the institute, married, for several years he served in production, and then moved to work with the schedule "Day after three", popular among poets and musicians. At this time, Mazin had already performed on stage as an author-performer, and songs on his verses were sometimes broadcast on radio and television. Then the future science written libretto for the musical furnished by Alexander Belsky.
Books
In the prose, Mazin debuted by the Roman "Shocker Tver", published in 1994. Starting with fiction, the author then wrote detectives, thrillers, militants and popular science books. The writer claims that it does not apply to the writers speculating at the reception of commencement, since the heroes of contemporaries, the will of his writing fantasy in the ancient centuries, help readers better to get acquainted with historical realities, but do not try to change these realities.
Thus, Mazin's works are not so much fiction as historical literature. Mazin novels are usually combined in the series. So, "Princess Russia" and "Valor of Warrior", along with other works, enter the "Varangian cycle", "Wolves of Odin" and "Games of Vikings" - in "Strategies", and "We pay iron" and "Earth ancestors" - in "Sagu about Ulfe Chernogolov." There is a writer and books written in co-authorship - these are works in the genre of youth fiction, created together with Anna Gurov.
Alexander Vladimirovich claims that he does not want to film his novels, because it does not believe that Russian cinema is able to adequately implement historical works in films.
The basis for disappointment was the picture "Viking", which writer characterizes as a film
"With fake dialogues, miserable decorations that are constantly lying in the mud and the new character."The writer is a shame, because for 6 years before the ribbon exit, he met with the producer of "Viking" Anatoly Maksimov and presented him with the book "Gentham", recommending to the Biography of Prince Vladimir. But the stage of the Varyag fragment, performed by the International Academy of Fencing Arts, liked the writer.
Personal life
Born the day after Christmas Alexander Mazin professes Orthodoxy and believes that the monarchy is the best state system. The writer does not use vodka and, although it is a connoisseur of good cognacs and wines, in chemical doping for creativity does not need.
The writer does not like to share the details of his personal life, but it refers to the past with respect and considers each of his three marriages with successful. With the third wife, the writer Anna Gurovaya Mazin met at the meeting of science fiction writers of St. Petersburg. Collaboration with Anna continues, despite the divorce.
Alexander Vladimirovich - Happy Large Father and Young Grandfather. The writer has four children (loving sons and daughters) and one granddaughter who is now in the Czech Republic.
Alexander Mazin now
At the end of 2018, the novel of Alexander Mazin and Anna Gurova "Flight of Sokol", telling about the adventures of the young princess Olga. The work is focused on a children's audience. According to the authors, writing for children is more difficult than for adults, but interesting.
Now the writer is working on another work from the Viking series, teaches on the literary courses "Master of Text", whose co-founder is, and sometimes writes poems, although it has not yet considered himself a poet. In May 2019, Alexander Vladimirovich "Strategy. Negative rating. " The best holiday, the writer considers travel, photos of which sometimes posts on their page in VKontakte.
Bibliography
- 1990 - "Path to the heart of the mountain"
- 1994 - "Tver Shocker"
- 1996 - "I am the Inquisitor"
- 2001 - "Varyag"
- 2003 - "Emperor's path"
- 2005 - "Baby and Karlsson"
- 2006 - "Hero"
- 2009 - "Gentiles"
- 2010 - "Princess Rus"
- 2010 - "Viking"
- 2013 - "Sovereign"
- 2015 - "Wolves Odin"
- 2015 - "Viking Games"
- 2016 - "Earth ancestors"
- 2017 - "Valor of Warrior"
- 2018 - "We pay iron"
- 2018 - "Flight of Sokol"