Aleksandr Skorobogatov

Aleksandr Viktorovich Skorobogatov is a Belarusian-born Russophone writer and journalist based in Antwerp, Belgium. He is regarded as one of the most important contemporary Russophone authors and one of the most original voices in the post-communist Russian literary tradition, known for his surreal, psychologically intense, and often dark narratives. His recent work, particularly Warchronicles and his columns, also positions him as an incisive commentator on contemporary political events, especially the Russo-Ukrainian War, and as a public intellectual engaging with complex moral and historical questions. In September 2025 he published the Dutch-language novel Achter de donkere wouden, published by De Geus. The novel is narrated in the second person, as a father addressing his murdered son, and draws on real events surrounding the kidnapping and murder of the author's fifteen-year-old son near Moscow in 2002.