ST. PETERSBURG, January 11 Science fiction writer, winner of the Strugatsky Brothers Prize Nikolai Romanetsky died at the age of 71, the St. Petersburg Writers' Union reported on its website.
“We regret to inform you that on January 10, 2024, at the age of 71, our colleague, science fiction writer, winner of the ABS Prize (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Prize) in 2010, translator, member of the Boris Strugatsky seminar, passed away. Nikolai Mikhailovich Romanetsky, executive secretary of the ABS Prize, executive secretary of the literary fiction magazine “Midday XXI Century,” the creative union said in a statement.
The date and place of farewell to Romanetsky has not yet been announced.
Romanetsky was born on June 26, 1953 in the Novgorod region, in 1977 he graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute with a degree in metallurgical engineer. After that, the future writer worked at the Baltic Plant until 1989 in the positions of process engineer, assistant foreman, foreman, and deputy shop manager.
He made his first attempts to write fiction while still a student, returned to them in 1985 and then became a participant in Boris Strugatsky’s seminar. According to open sources, Romanetsky wrote under several pseudonyms, including Sin Staneymore and Nikolai Romanov. The series “Dead Wizards Have Long Arms” brought him fame.
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