caption birth_place awards nationality notableworks birth_date genre image article_title occupation
mark kharitonov , 2005 zhytomyr , ukrainian ssr , soviet union russian booker prize -lrb- 1992 -rrb- russian '' lines of fate '' 31 august 1937 postmodernism mark kharitonov.jpg mark kharitonov
 writer , poet , essayist , translator
mark kharitonov

mark sergeyevich kharitonov -lrb- , born 31 august 1937 -rrb- is a russian novelist , poet , essayist , and translator .
he was awarded the first russian booker prize in 1992 for his novel `` lines of fate '' .
