Anatoliy Kogan Russian Moldavian writer, journalist, translator. Country: Moldova

Biography of Anatoly Kogan

Anatoly Kogan was a Russian-Moldavian writer, journalist, and translator. He was born in Kishinev, in the family of the renowned Bessarabian painter and educator, Shneer Herzovich Kogan. From an early age, Anatoly began publishing poems, stories, and fairy tales in Romanian while studying at a Romanian gymnasium.

After the Great Patriotic War, he switched to writing in Russian. For many years, Anatoly worked as an editor in the scientific department of the newspaper "Evening Kishinev" in both its Russian and Moldavian editions. In the 1990s, under the pseudonym "Victor Bukovynianu," he had a regular column called "Verbatim" in the newspaper "Kishinev News."

Anatoly Kogan is the author of historical novellas and novels about the Moldavian Principality during the reign of Stephen the Great. His notable works include "The High Bridge" (1976), "The Castle of the Senarega Brothers" (1979), "The Mangup Princess" (1984), "The Hour of Invasion" (1988), and the extensive trilogy "Voiku, Son of Tudor: Chronicle of the Time of Stephen the Great, Lord of Moldavian Land" (1990). He also wrote a documentary novella, "Bloody Foam: Bessarabian Genocide" (2001), about the events of the Holocaust.

The trilogy "Voiku, Son of Tudor" became the first Braille publication in Moldova in 2003, consisting of 13 volumes and published by the Prosan Foundation in the Netherlands, under the auspices of the Moldavian Society for the Blind. In the genre of science fiction, Anatoly Sh. Kogan published novels like "Journey to Turan" (1990) and "De profundis" (In the Abyss), as well as short stories such as "The Resurrection of Dragons," "The White Skier," and "The Caryatid Rock."

Anatoly Kogan's uncle was the French painter and sculptor Moisey Kogan.