Evgueni Vodolazkin nació en Kiev en 1964 y trabaja en el departamento de Literatura Rusa Antigua de la Casa Pushkin desde 1990. Es un experto en la historia y el folclore de la Rusia medieval. Laurus, su segunda novela, ganó los premios rusos más importantes: el National Big Book Award y el Yasnaya Polyana Award, fue preseleccionada para el National Bestseller Prize, el Russian Booker Prize y el New Literature Award y ha sido traducida a diecinueve idiomas. El autor, que recibió el premio Alexander Solzhenitsyn de Literatura en 2019, vive actualmente en San Petersburgo.

Evgeny Vodolazkin was born in Kyiv in 1964 and has worked in the Department of Ancient Russian Literature at the Pushkin House since 1990. He is an expert in the history and folklore of medieval Russia. Laurus, his second novel, won Russia's most important literary prizes, including the National Big Book Award and the Yasnaya Polyana Award; it was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize, the Russian Booker Prize, and the New Literature Award, and has been translated into nineteen languages. The author, who received the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize for Literature in 2019, currently lives in Saint Petersburg.