Arslan Khasavov is a popular Russian writer and journalist. Winner of the independent literary award "Debut", author of the novel "The Best Half", the novel "Sense".
Writer Biography
Arslan Khasavov was born in the capital of Turkmenistan Ashgabat in 1988. By nationality Kumyk. This is one of the indigenous Dagestan peoples, numbering about 750 thousand people.
Together with his parents he moved to Moscow. He studied at the famous Kaptsov gymnasium, which is considered one of the oldest educational institutions in Russia.
Arslan Khasavov received his higher education at the Institute of Asian and African countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The hero of our article graduated from the Faculty of History.
He then completed a master's program in media management. Arslan Dagirovich Khasavov won a diploma from the Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design of the Higher School of Economics.
In 2014, when he became the laureate of the independent literary prize "Debut", he won the All-Russian Competition for Young International Journalists a year earlier.
Currently, at the Higher School of Economics, he leads a literary studio in which young talents are brought up.
Literary debut
Arslan Khasavov published his first works in 2007. These were several stories that appeared on the pages of the literary magazine "Youth".
Soon, his prose works began to appear in the magazines Friendship of Peoples, New Youth, Neva, Vainakh, in an American publication called Florida. Also, the Chechen writer Arslan Khasavov began to be published in collections of modern prose. And not only in Russia, but also in China, the UK.
The hero of our article published the first separate work in 2010. It was the story "Sense", which was evaluated by the jury of the literary prize "Debut".
The story "Sense"
The protagonist of the story "Sense" is a young man named Arthur. He, like the author, is Kumyk by nationality, so the reader understands that the work will be largely autobiographical.
Arthur lives in Moscow. The main thing that he does is to seek the meaning of his life. His life is very reminiscent of how many people around him live. He studies at the university, in which he is frankly bored, his parents assure that the main thing is to learn how to earn a lot. The life of most of the people around him seems gray and dull to the hero.
At the very beginning, the main character admits that since childhood he dreamed of becoming a great writer, but when he grew up, he realized that writing could not achieve fame. To quickly become famous, it is easier to make some kind of revolution. Then he really begins to think in which country to arrange it. He stops his choice in Turkmenistan. In his imagination, Arthur begins to draw a plan of how he will lead the detachment into battle, as he will enthrall thousands of followers.
True, the matter is not limited to dreams. Arthur begins to really look for people who are ready to follow him to death. He decides to choose between the National Bolshevik Party of Limonov, the Islamic Committee of Heydar Dzhemal and the Youth Union under the name "Hurray!"
Arthur visits each of these organizations, gets acquainted with their supporters, but does not tell anyone about his true plans.
The story earned high marks from many eminent writers. For example, Roman Senchin noted that in this work the desire of the protagonist and the author to live with meaning strongly sounds, this inevitably energizes each reader with energy.
The work became popular not only in Russia, the book was published in the USA. Archa Tate translated it into English. Some of the author’s texts were also published in Chinese and Arabic.
Work as a journalist
Essayist Arslan Khasavov is also known as a journalist. He has repeatedly worked in hot spots. In 2013, he received the first prize of the All-Russian Competition of Young International Journalists for an outstanding report from the Syrian city of Homs, which was published in the American magazine The New Times.
In 2017, he also worked in Syria. Released a series of reports for domestic media.
Social activity
In social activities, Khasavov first clearly showed himself in 2012. Then he became one of the organizers of Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Moscow State University to the faculty of journalism. At this meeting, the hero of our article asked about the investigation of the attacks on journalists Oleg Kashin and Mikhail Beketov.
In 2012, Khasavov became the confidant of the presidential candidate of Russia, the communist Gennady Zyuganov.
In 2014, Khasavov again became the focus of media attention after he, together with Dinara Satredinova and Shamil Alyautdinov, became one of the members of the first all-Russian competition of journalists and bloggers, which was dedicated to the prophet Muhammad. The competition was called the "Prophet of Mercy."
Khasavov received gratitude from Mufti Ravil Gainutdin for this work .