Iskander wrote "Sandro from Chegem", "Childhood of Chic", "Rabbits and boas", "Thinking of Russian and American" and many other works.

Iskander received popularity in 1966 after the publication in the "New World" novel "Constellation of Kozlotur".

In 1989 the film was shot on this story.

Fazil Iskander's funeral will be held on Tuesday, August 2nd. "We expect that the civil funeral will take place on Tuesday at the Central House of Writers, and the funeral at Novodevichy Cemetery in the case of a positive decision of the Moscow authorities", - informed to "Interfax" relatıves of the writer.

Fazil Iskander was born on March 6, 1929, in Sukhum. He graduated from the Russian school in Abkhazia with a gold medal. After high school, he entered the Institute Library in Moscow, three years later transferred to the Literary Institute of Maxim Gorky and graduated in 1954.

In the years 1954-1956 Fazil Iskander worked as a journalist in Kursk and Bryansk. In 1956 he became editor of the Abkhaz branch of the State Publishing House, where he worked until the beginning of the 1990s.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, permanently residing in Moscow.

He is known for his novel "The Constellation of Kozlotur", which was published in 1966 in the "New World."

In 1980, two of his stories came into the famous collection of "Metropol". After it Iskander was included in the blacklist of opposition of Soviet Writers and for several years was not printed at home.

During these years he began to leave the books in foreign publishing houses.

A special place takes a serie of works under the title "Sandro from Chegem".

At different times and in different genres Fazil Iskander has created such works as "Remzik", "Sea Scorpion", "Tree of Childhood", "human parking", "Rabbits and boas", "Sofichka", "The Poet" and "Man and its environs".

Fazil Iskander was awarded the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" II, III, IV degree, the highest Abkhaz award "Honor and glory." He is the winner of the USSR State Prize and the State Prize of Russia, the prize "Triumph".