M. A. ZAMSHEV

Editor-in-Chief of the “Literaturnaya Gazeta” newspaper, “The Russian Bell” literary journal. Honored Worker of Culture of the Chechen Republic. Poet, prose writer, literary critic. Author of 10 poetry books (“Love is Given to People from Above”, “From the Patriarch’s Ponds to the Arbat”, and others) and 5 books of prose (“The Chosen One”, “Spring for the Reporter”, “Freethinkers”, and others), more than a thousand publications in various genres in Russia and abroad. The poems have been translated into 15 languages and published in “Literaturnaya Gazeta”, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, in the journals “Moskva”, “Neva”, “Ural” and other circulation publications. Translator from Rumanian and Serbian languages. Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, the Supervisory Board of the “Litsey” Literary Prize. Chairman of the Board of the Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia. Recipient of literary prizes named after Nikolai Rubtsov, Nikolai Gumilyov, Dm. Kedrin, Alexander Griboyedov, prizes in the field of literature and art of the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation. Awarded the Medals “Defender of the Fatherland”, “For Enlightenment and Charity”, the Medal of Suvorov, the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” I and II class, and others.