Dmitry Alekseevich Glukhovsky (born June 12, 1979 Дми́трий Алексе́евич Глухо́вский) was born in Moscow, where he graduated from the V. D. Polenov School, with a specialization in intensive French language studies. He lived and studied for four and a half years in Israel (at the University of Jerusalem, majoring in Journalism and International Relations), and later worked in Germany and France. He was a war correspondent in Israel and Abkhazia, worked for Radio Rossii, the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, as well as for the channels Euronews and Russia Today, as a correspondent in the Kremlin press circle.
From 2007 to 2009 he was a presenter on the Mayak radio station. In 2010, Glukhovsky became one of the columnists of the Infomania program on the STS TV channel. At the same time, he moderated the talk show “Press Club XXI”, where various cultural topics were discussed together with journalists and bloggers (the show was broadcast from April 16, 2010 to 2011 on the “Kultura” channel). Currently, he is a columnist for the magazines “Snob” and GQ. He speaks five languages.
He made his debut as an online writer with the post-apocalyptic novel Metro 2033, the chapters of which were gradually published on the Internet, on the website m-e-t-r-o.ru, thus allowing for a direct assessment by a wide audience. The book was conceived in high school, and its writing began during university studies (the first version was completed in 2002). After several publishing houses rejected the manuscript, Glukhovsky decided to publish it for free and in full on the Internet.
In 2005, the novel, in its final version entitled Metro 2033, was published by the publishing house “Eksmo”, and in 2007 it was republished by the publishing house “Literatura Populă”. Glukhovsky is also the author of the online collections of short stories “Night”, “Stories about Animals” and the play “INFINITELY SAD”.
In 2007, his second novel – Twilight was published. As the author himself states, he tried to make this work as different as possible from his debut, to prove that he is not a writer of one book. The result is a novel-metaphor, a mystification, disguised as a thriller.
In 2009, Dmitry released a new book – Metro 2034. This book is not a direct continuation of Metro 2033, but a parallel story with other protagonists.
In the summer of 2009, director Timur Bekmambetov invited the writer to take part in the adaptation of the animated film 9 for the Russian audience. In addition to writing the voice-over text, Glukhovsky also created a prequel story to the film.
In 2010, Glukhovsky’s new book, Stories about the Motherland, was published by the AST publishing house. As the author says, “this story began with the Russian Pioneer magazine, where editor-in-chief Andrei Kolesnikov invited me a few years ago as a columnist.”
In 2013, the novel Viitorul was released, which won the Lumea Fantasticului magazine award for the best Russian science fiction work of 2014. Continuing to experiment with promoting books on the Internet, Glukhovsky again published the novel in full and for free online — this time on the VKontakte social network, where each chapter was accompanied by musical pieces and illustrations created especially for him.
The last book published by the author to date is the novel Metro 2035, released in 2015.
On October 7, 2022, Dmitry Glukhovsky was included by the Ministry of Justice of Russia in the register of mass media and individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent.
Official webpage: http://www.glukhovsky.ru/