The writer Plato Besedin is known as a literary critic and publicist. A young but already famous author made a great contribution to the development of modern prose.
At the beginning of the journey
Plato's biography began in 1985 in the city of Sevastopol. The child learned to read early, after which he no longer parted with books. Like most boys, in his school years he was especially fascinated by the novels of Stevenson and Jules Verne. In high school, the teenager became interested in music and assembled a group that played in the styles of punk rock and hard rock.
Besedin graduated from a technical university with a degree in radio electronics. He was later educated as a psychologist in Kiev. As a student, Plato played in KVN and even reached the semi-finals of the official league. For a long time, the young man was looking for his place in life, worked as a test engineer, designer, teacher, sommelier, security guard, copywriter.
Career
The first "adult" work of Plato was published in 2002, the story was called "Metamorphoses". His debut publication is considered the story "Hunger" in the magazine "Girl with an Oar" in 2002. Besedin's early stories were included in the Crimean prose collection Under the Table (2006) and U-Bahn (2008), published in Germany. Subsequent works by the author were published in the magazines Friendship of Peoples, Our Contemporary, Youth, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Literaturnaya Gazeta. Subsequently, his prose and critical articles were included in the collective collections Russian Autobahn, Litera and Stories of New Writers (2011), Station Paradise (2012), Our Sins (2013).
In 2012, the Russian publishing house Aleteya published the first novel of the writer "Books of Sin." Thanks to the Shiko publishing house, the book was also published in Ukraine. During the presentation of his novel to readers, Besedin made a tour of major Ukrainian cities, visited St. Petersburg and Moscow. The first major work of the writer was characterized as "good, easy and hard, written prose." The main character, wanting to participate in history, becomes a member of the totalitarian sect and joins the party. He smashes the old order, grows up and seeks himself and his place in life. The interesting plot and social orientation of the book quickly made it a bestseller, and the author brought popularity.
A new success in 2014 brought the writer a collection of short stories "Ribs". The book was nominated for several awards for young writers. In the same year, Besedin's new novel, “Teacher. Romance of Change, ” appeared in the semifinals of prestigious Russian literary awards.
During the armed conflict in southern Ukraine in 2015, Plato drove humanitarian aid to the territory of the LPR. His impressions of his work with the humanitarian mission were reflected in the collection "Diary of a Russian Ukrainian. Euromaidan, Crimean Spring, Donbass Massacre."
A new step in the career of the writer was the book, which was released in 2017. The novel "Children of December" consists of novels. Their main theme is the road. Stories tell about the refugees of their Donbass, about the Crimean family, who leaves for Kiev and then comes back. This movement is a historical reality, as if snatched from news bulletins, with many details, and very true.
More recently, a new collection of writers, "Why Can't Russians Dream?" Appeared on store shelves about the difficult relationship between East and West. In a characteristic authorial manner, Plato expounds their history from the church schism to the present day.
