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  <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Real name - Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1956. Since 1958 he lives in Moscow. Writer and translator from Japanease. Author of crime stories set in tsarist Russia. In 1998 he made his debut with novel &lt;i&gt;Azazel&lt;/i&gt; (to English readers known as &lt;i&gt; The Winter Queen&lt;/i&gt;), where he created Erast Pietrovich Fandorin. 

B. Akunin refers to Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin and &lt;i&gt;Akuna&lt;/i&gt;, home name of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet.

In September of 2000, Akunin was named Russian Writer of the Year and won the &quot;Antibooker&quot; prize in 2000 for his Erast Fandorin novel &lt;i&gt;Coronation, or the last of the Romanovs&lt;/i&gt;. 

Akunin also created crime-solving Orthodox nun, sister Pelagia, and literary genres.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Tbilisi</hometown>  <born_at>05/20/1956</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>508</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="64552">
  <title><![CDATA[Murder on the Leviathan (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #3)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="97428">
  <title><![CDATA[The Turkish Gambit (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #2)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.84</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>315</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="64551">
  <title><![CDATA[The Death of Achilles (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #4)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.88</average_rating>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog (Sister Pelagia Mysteries, #1)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.65</average_rating>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Special Assignments (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #5)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.90</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>135</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Pelagia and the Black Monk (Sister Pelagia Mysteries, #2)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>85</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="1038691">
  <title><![CDATA[Статский советник]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Борис Акунин]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.41</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>49</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
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        <book id="1243539">
  <title><![CDATA[Коронация, или Последний из романов]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Борис Акунин]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.27</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>49</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
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        <book id="1243532">
  <title><![CDATA[Алмазная колесница]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Boris Akunin]]></name>
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    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Борис Акунин]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.46</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>46</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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