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Alexander Selin was born in the family of
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The winter of 2006 was the time of beginning of
Alexander Selin's literary works translation into French. The next year, in January 2007 young directors O. Anischenko and M. Belyakovich staged performance Parachutist based on A. Selin's story of the same name. O. Anischenko and M. Belyakovich staged
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8 Selin's stories were published in literature magazine Solo in 1997. The first storybook contained 21 of his stories (including
Parachutist) and video play Baumstain were published in the same magazine in 1998. After a scandalous breakup with Video International in 1997 A. Selin was concentrated on
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A. Selin's literary works were included into the number of anthologies and his stories were published. In 2003 Alexander wrote a script to Andrey and Olga (Russian: «Андрей и Ольга») film. It is not known for certain whether a based on the script film was shot or whether it was shot at a different
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Alexander Selin's literature and video production activity started in 1988–1989. He took part in preparation of radio programmes, published his stories in newspapers and magazines including
Student Meridian (Russian: «Студенческий меридиан»), Artefact (Russian: «Артефакт»), Day and Night (Russian:
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2004 became fruitful in terms of
Alexander Selin's creative work. At first two of his stories Aleksey Sychikhin (Russian: «Алексей Сычихин») and Blurred Semicircle (Russian: «Размытое полукружие») were published in the Town Zebra (Russian: «Городская зебра») magazine. After that storybook The New
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Alexander Selin's creative activities in 1989–1991were connected with little theatre
Theatre of Social Horror (Russian: «Театр социального ужаса») when he had written scripts and staged three performances, namely Motherland (Russian: «Родина»), Baumstain (Russian: «Баумштайн») and Album (Russian:
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He started his cooperation with Video
International (Russian: «Видео Интернешнл») as a stage director and a scriptwriter in 1994. He had created a multiplication cartoon series Secrets of Generic Castle (Russian: «Тайны родового замка») within the framework of the company's development plan.
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During the following two years А. Selin was involved in making commercials for tourist agencies and commercial firms. At the beginning of 1993 A. Selin directed TV programme On the Other side of
Television Picture Tube (Russian: «По ту сторону кинескопа») which was shown on
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TV Channel programme News Plus with
Saveliy Plekhanov (Russian: «Новости-Плюс с Савелием Плаховым») as a scriptwriter and a producer. The same year Alexander's stories were translated into English in the US and published with the title of Beyond the Lookingglas.
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hurdling champion in her youth. Alexander inherited enthusiasm for sport and
Mathematics from his mother and gained the first athletics senior degree along with winning the oblast Mathematic competition (Mathematic Olympiad) during his final year at school.
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Selin's creative work is characterized by a proper standard language, an original view and humour. Having debuted in literature with short stories A. Selin had enlarged the field of his creativity with writing novels and screenplays. His novel
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From 2006 until 2007 Alexander actively developed his creative activities. That time the first Russian animated 3D feature film titled The Special One (written by A. Selin directed by Kirill Zlotnik) (Russian: «Особенный») was released.
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and planned to develop a script based on the book along with Tigran Arutuynyan, was completing novel Video Untermention and was trying to wright script Tunnel effect (Russian: «Тоннельный эффект») based on his story of the same name.
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In 2005 Narkas Iskanderova staged performance A Nightingale Was Singing and Lilac Was Blossoming (Pel solovey, siren' tsvela Russian: «Пел соловей, сирень цвела») at Moscow New Drama Theatre based on Selin's play.
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title. That year performance Time to give birth (Russian: «Время рожать») was staged at Moscow New Drama Theatre. Snippets of A. Selin's story Alpatovka (Russian: «Алпатовка») were used in the performance.
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In 2013 novel Video Untermention was published in FTM publishing house. At the beginning of 2014 A. Selin's novel Video Untermention was nominated for literature prize Big Book (Russian: «Большая книга»).
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Selin spent ten years including some breaks for writing his novel Video Untermention (Russian: «Видео Унтерменшн»). Although he sometimes had to put off his work over the novel he managed to complete it.
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Alexander Selin's literary works have been published in a great number of magazines, have been read in public and shooting of some films based on A. Selin's works have been planned.
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teams of KVN Major League. In the summer of 2014 A. Selin was taken to hospital in long-term chronic conditions and was unsuccessfully treated there. He died on 9 September 2014.
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Romantic (Russian: «Новый романтик») which contained 36 of his stories was published. That year the storybook was translated into English as Alexander Selin The New Romantic.
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one more Selin's performance Allegory (Russian: «Аллегория») based on The Song about Prince Oleg (Russian: «Песнь о Вещем Олеге») story which first night was in August 2007.
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Valentina Khanzhova married Selin Gennady Evgraphovich and Alexander's surname had been Selin since he was seven years old. Valentina was the
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his writing activity. He frequently read his stories in public in Chekhov library where he was noticed by the publishers.
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