Alexander Kan is a Russian writer of scripts and fiction of Korean origin. He was born in Pyongyang (North Korea) in 1960. In 1961 after political repressions his incomplete family removed to the Soviet Union: to St. Petersburg, and then to Almaty, Kazakhstan. In 1988 he enrolled at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, majoring in prose, which graduated from 1993. In 1994 he became a winner of a Russian competition "New Names" among young writers under the literary magazine "Novy Mir" in Moscow. From 1992 to 1994 he worked on the TV program, covering the life of the post-Soviet Korean Diaspora "Koryo Saram" as a TV editor in Moscow and Almaty. From 1995 to 1998, he worked in the British-Russian TV drama "Crossroads" in Kazakhstan as a scriptwriter. From January to June 1999, he obtained a literary residency with the NIPKOW PROGRAMM Film Academy to write a full-length feature film script "The Other Sky", based on his own novel, revolving around the life of Russian settlers in Germany. In 2003, he became the winner of a worldwide script competition in Seoul, organized by the Korea Foundation. His novels, poems, essays were published in the Russian and international newspapers and literary magazines and in literary collections. Some of his novels and essays were translated into English, German, Swedish and Korean. So far, he has published nine collections of fiction, and he is an author of many TV drama episodes. Kan’s writing is characterized by its lyrical style and existentialist intricacy, evocative of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. Most recently Alexander has written a script for Katya Kan’s short feature film “Na Zare”, which will be submitted to international independent film festivals: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm9462440/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1