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Boris Akunin ((ロシア語:Борис Акунин)) is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili ((ロシア語:Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили); (グルジア語:გრიგოლ ჩხარტიშვილი)) (born May 20, 1956), a Russian writer of Georgian and Jewish origin. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction, but he's also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. ==Life and career== Chkhartishvili was born in Zestaponi〔 to a Georgian father and a Jewish mother and since 1958 has lived in Moscow. Influenced by Japanese Kabuki theatre, he joined the historical-philological branch of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University as an expert on Japan. He worked as assistant to the editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Foreign Literature'',〔 but left in October 2000 to pursue a career as a fiction writer.〔 Under his given name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, he serves as editor-in-chief of the 20-volume ''Anthology of Japanese Literature'',〔 chairman of the board of a large "Pushkin Library " (Soros Fund),〔 and is the author of the book ''The Writer and Suicide'' (Moscow, The New Literary Review, 1999). He has also contributed literary criticism and translations from Japanese, American and English literature under his own name.〔 He is left handed, and has been known to smoke a pipe. Under the pseudonym ''Boris Akunin'', he has written many works of fiction, mainly novels and stories in the series ''The Adventures of Erast Fandorin'', ''The Adventures of Sister Pelagia'', ''The Adventures of the Master'' (following Nicholas Fandorin, Erast's grandson), all published in Russia by Zakharov Books, and the ''Roman-Kino'' ("Novel-Film") series set during World War I. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that the identity of ''B. Akunin'' (i.e., Chkhartishvili) was revealed. Chkhartishvili "prefers to work with historical material" and has been called the "undisputed champion" of Russian crime fiction given that as Boris Akunin he "has written more than a dozen crime novels and has been widely appreciated by discerning readers . . . and has been translated into many languages."〔''The Case Of The Missing Russian Crime Novel.'' Igor Pomerantsev. Radio Free Europe. NEWS STORIES AND DOCUMENTS. July 31, 2009.〕 "Akunin" (悪人) is a Japanese word that translates loosely to "villain". In his novel ''The Diamond Chariot'', the author redefines an "akunin" as one who creates his own rules.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boris Akunin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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