Dmitry Alexeevich Glukhovsky (
Russian: Дми́трий Алексе́евич Глухо́вский,
Hebrew: דמיטרי אלכסייביץ' גלוכובסקי, born 12 June 1979) is a
Russian-
Israeli author and journalist best known for the science fiction novel
Metro 2033 and its sequels.
[1][2][3][4] As a journalist, Dmitry Glukhovsky has worked for
EuroNews,
RT, among others. Glukhovsky has lived in Israel, Germany and France but currently lives in Moscow.
Dmitry Glukhovsky was born and raised in Moscow to an
intelligentsia family.
[5] He graduated from a school in
Arbat District and, having already decided to become a writer, conceived the idea for
Metro 2033 at the age of 15.
[5] At the age of 17, he left Russia to study in Israel and lived there for four and a half years.
[6] While living in Israel he learned
Hebrew, and earned a university degree in Journalism and International Relations at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He completed this degree in Hebrew, no differently to native-language Israeli students most of whom were five years older than him.
[5] While talking about the experience, he said: "I have become a fan of Israel after living there, not that I started feeling myself a Jew, but I definitely started feeling an Israeli."
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