About the author

Welcome to Alexander Sylazhov – The Official Site. Here I shall give some information about myself and my work.



Welcome to Alexander Sylazhov - The Official Site.

Santiago Daniel García García, born on May 12, 1990 in Montevideo, Uruguay, is an author, translator, and cultural essayist. In 2013, he self-published his first novel, SOVREV: The Faith Endeavor, under his independent publishing brand, Alexander Sylazhov, which also hosted essays of cultural analysis. During this period, he contributed guest articles on video game analysis to Meta Gear Solid, a blog run by Canadian author Terry Wolfe.

Santiago pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Granada, where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Translation and Interpreting in 2021, specializing in English and Russian. Under the tutelage of professors Manuel Trenzado Romero, Miriam Fernández-Santiago, and Natalia Arsentieva, he continued to hone his skills as a novelist, essayist, poet, and translator.

His academic publications include articles on Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Mundo Eslavo, the journal of the Russian Center of the University of Granada. He has also been awarded the First Prize for Poetry in English organized by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UGR in 2017, and the Second Prize for Translation in Russian at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation in 2018. His poetry was included in the Anthology of the Ángel Ganivet International Literary Competition 2019. He collaborated in the curatorial dramaturgy of the play Verdes by the Uruguayan actor and theater director Bruno Contenti Bello.

Santiago has lived in Uruguay, Spain and Poland, and has studied in Russia. He currently resides in Arona, Tenerife, where he has lived intermittently since 2004, and currently works as a video game translator.