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Biographical SketchesIldar Abuziarov was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod in 1975. In 2000 he graduated from Nizhny Novgorod University with a degree in history. At the same time, he studied Islam in Moscow. He is the author of several books: HUSH, Kurban-Roman, The Autumn of Djinns, Mutabor and other books. His novel HUSH was included in the long list of the National Bestseller Prize and the Big Book Prize. Mutabor was shortlisted for the National Bestseller in 2013. ![]() Peter Aleshkovsky, born in 1957 in Moscow, is an archaeologist and historian by training. He spent many years traveling in Northern Russia and was involved in the restoration of the renowned monasteries in Novgorod, Pskov, Solovki and Vologda. He is mainly known for his Stargorod cycle which includes 30 narratives, largely of anecdotal nature, the short novel Seagull, abounding in ethnographic detail (nominated for the Russian Booker Prize in 1992), and Skunk: a Life. His novel Fish: A History of One Migration was shortlisted for the prestigious Russian Booker Prize. It is a novel about the life journey of a selfless Russian every-woman Vera ( "Faith" in Russian) written in the realistic tradition. Yuz Aleshkovsky was born in Siberia in 1929 but later moved to Moscow. In 1947 Aleshkovsky was drafted into the Soviet Navy but because of breaking the disciplinary code, he had to serve four years in jail. After serving the term, Aleshkovsky moved back to Moscow. From the very beginning of his writer's career, his works were available only in 'samizdat'. Some of his songs were included in the subversive self-published almanac "Metropol "(1979). From 1979 he lives in the West and now serves as a Visiting Russian Émigré Writer in Wesleyan College (CT). Aleshkovsky writes in the tradition of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He is the author of Kangaroo and Nikolai Nikolaevich. ![]() By Rodrigo Fernandez. Wikimedia Commons Free Media Maxim Amelin was born in 1970 in Kursk. He studied at the Gorky Literary Institute and for fourteen years was the director of Symposium Press. He is currently living in Moscow, where he is Editor-in-Chief at OGI and B.S.G. Press. His poetic style is somewhat unique in the contemporary Russian poetic scene. His first book Cold Odes was written in the neo-classical tradition of 18th century inspired by poems by Vasily Trediakovsky. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Cold Odes (Холодные оды, 1996), Dubia (1999), and The Horse of the Gorgon (Конь Горгоны, 2003), as well as a collection of prose and poems, Bent Speech (Гнутая речь, 2011). He is also a translator of Catullus, Homer, and other ancient and contemporary poets. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Moscow Account Prize (2003), the Anti-Booker, the Bunin Prize (2013), and the National Poet Prize (2017). Maria Arbatova was born in 1957 in Murom. She studied philosophy at Moscow State University. After graduation from Maxim Gorky Literary Institute, she became a playwright.She is the author of 14 plays staged in Russia and abroad, and 20 books. Currently she is one of the leaders of the Russian feminist movement. Polina Barskova was born in St.Petersburg in 1976. She began publishing poems in Russian journals and released the first of her books at 15. She came to the United States in 1998 in order to pursue graduate studies at Berkeley, after having already completed a degree in classical literature at St. Petersburg University. Currently, she works at a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts . In 2015, Barskova won the Andrei Bely Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Russia, for the book of prose Живые картины. Pavel Basinsky was born in 1961 near Volgograd. He studied at Saratov University and at Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Basinsky's book Leo Tolstoy: Escape from Paradise, came out in July 2010 and within two months had been reprinted twice. Escape from Paradise was ranked among the top ten most popular books in Russia for Summer-Autumn 2010. Pavel Basinsky's new book, Лев в тени Льва (Lev in Leo's shadow), which chronicles Leo Tolstoy's relationships with his children particularly with his third son, Lev, was presented on Sept. 13, 2014 at the "Yasnaya Polyana" Cultural Center. Andrei Bitov was born in Leningrad in 1937. He graduated from Leningrad Mining Institute (1962). He is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories: Captive of the Caucasus, Life in Windy Weather, The Monkey Link and others. His novel Pushkin House presents the Soviet reality of the 1960s and is considered as one of the first works of Russian postmodernism. Bitov was granted the Bunin Prize in 2006 for his selected prose works Palace Without a Tsar. Bitov's works have been translated into a number of European languages, including English, German, Swedish, French and Italian. ![]() By Valery Ledenev. Faces of Russian-Literature. Vasily Borodin was born in 1982 in Moscow. He is well-known in Russia as one of the talented young poets and essayists, but his way to poetic stardom was unusual. He started writing poetry in his early childhood; however, his first publication appeared on the website Polutona only in 2005. He graduated from the Moscow Evening Institute of Metallurgy, and has worked as an editor, essayist, and literary critic. He is the author of five books of poems: Luch. Parus (2008), P.S. Moscow - Gorod-jiraph (2011), and others. In 2011, his book was long listed for the Début Prize. He was a finalist for the Razlichie Poetry Prize (2013). He was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize (2015) for his brilliant collection Losinyi Ostrov Marina Boroditskaya was born in 1954 in Moscow. She graduated in 1976 from Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages. Boroditskaya is the author of several books of poetry, books of poems for children and numerous translations of poems and fairy tales from English. Many of her poems have been translated into English and circulated in publications on both sides of the Atlantic. ![]() Nikolai Bytov (Goman'kov) was born in Moscow in 1951. After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, he worked as a computer programmer. In 1985, he started "Epsylon-Salon", a samizdat literary magazine (with Alexander Barash). His first publication in a literary magazine happened in 1989. He has published three more collections of his poems and two books of short stories. In 2011, he won the Andrey Bely Prize for Думай, что говоришь. Denis Butov was born in 1975. Butov lives in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. He spent two years in active service in Chechnya and is devoted to the military theme. His Five Days of War plunges the reader into the midst of fierce fighting and a miraculous salvation from sure death. His How Dreams Don't Come True is about an ex-serviceman's inability to reintegrate into peaceful life after his army stint in Chechnya. Yury Buida was born in 1954 near Kaliningrad. He graduated from Kalinigrad University. He is the author of several novels: The Domino Player (1993), Yoke (1996), Boris and Gleb (1997). His works combine everyday life with grotesque. His novel Blue Blood was nominated for the Big Book Prize in 2011. In 2012, he published a grotesque novel Вор, шпион и убийца. ![]() ![]() ![]() Screenshot: 220 секунд Lada Chizhova was born in 1991 in Novoaltaisk. She studied at Moscow State Academy of Arts and Maxim Gorky Literary Institute. Her first publications were in internet portals (New Reality, Polutona, Litkarta.ru and others). Since then, her work was long listed for the Russian LiteratureRentgen Prize-2012. Chizhova's poetic voice is unusual: in her short verses she creates a universal image of the world by using new linguistic means. Alexander Chudakov ( 1938-2005) was born to a family of teachers in Shchuchensk in Kazakhstan. In 1960 he graduated with a degree in philology from Moscow State University. He has taught Russian literature at Moscow State University since 1969. Since 1964 he has been on the faculty of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of World Literature. His novel Lozhitsia mgla na starye stupeni ("A Gloom Is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps"), which was called "the major literary event of 2000, won the Booker of the Decade in 2011 posthumously. Dmitry Danilov was born in Moscow in 1969. He has published four books to date, mainly short stories and novels. His texts have been published in magazines in the USA. He is editor-in-chief of the offical blog of a large car manufacturer. Danilov's latest book is Описание города ("Description of a City"). He lives in Moscow. ![]() ![]() Picture by Andrei Romanenko, 2012 Danila Davydov was born in 1978. He graduated from Maxim Gorky Literary Institute and holds a Ph.D. in philology. He is also a prominent scholar in the field of naïve and primitive poetry and a literary critic. He is the author of four books of poetry and was the first laureate of the Debut Prize (2000) for his collection of short stories Experiences in Heartlessness. From 1999 to 2004, he was the Chairman of the Russian Union of Young Writers “Vavilon.” He edited Brother's Cradle: the Début Anthology of Poetry, and was the contributing editor of Nine Measurements: An Anthology of New Russian Poetry (2004). His poetic style is ironic and often incorporates quotes from folklore, Brodsky, and other poets. It creates an image of the mega-city where people are lost and don't know where they come from or what the purpose of their existence there is. He lives in Moscow. Andrey Dmitriev was born in St.Petersburg. He studied at the Department of Philology at Moscow State University, and graduated from the VGIK. Currently he lives in Moscow. He is the author of four books of prose. His novel The Villager and the Teenager won the Russian Booker-2012. ![]() ![]() Elena Fanailova was born in Voronezh in 1962. She graduated from Voronezh Medical Institute and earned a degree in journalism from Voronezh State University. She worked for six years as a doctor at the Voronezh Regional Hospital. Since 1995, she became a correspondent for Radio Svoboda, and has lived and worked in Moscow since the late nineties. Elena Fanailova received the Andrei Bely Prize in 1999 and the Moscow Count Prize in 2003. Her collection of poetry The Russian Version was translated into English and published in 2009. Maria Galina was born in Twer in 1958 and has lived in Moscow since 1987. A graduate of Odessa University majoring in marine biology, she took part in several sea expeditions in her youth. She has been a professional writer since 1995. Her fiction contains a strong element of "magic realism". She is the author of Iramifications (2009) translated into English . It is an example of Russian “fantasy” genre. Sergey Gandlevsky was born in 1952. He has worked as a tour-guide, teacher and editor. Gandlevsky started writing poetry in 1970s, and in 1975 he became one of the founding members of the Moscow Time group of poets, which also included Bakhyt Kenzheyev, Alexander Soprovsky and Alexey Tsvetkov. He won the Anti-Booker Prize for his poetry collection entitled Prazdnik (1996), and Maly Booker Prize for his short novel Trepanatsiya Cherepa (Trepanation of the Skull). ![]() Mikhail Gigolashvili was born in Tbilisi in 1954. He received his Ph.D. from Tbilisi University, where he specialized in Dostoevsky. Gigolashvili was a teacher and author of numerous articles and monographs on Russian literature before moving to Germany in 1991. He currently teaches Russian at the University of Saarland. Gigolashvili's first novel was Judea (1978) , which was followed by The Interpreter (2003), a collection of short stories Cryptograms (2007). His novel, The Devil's Wheel (2010), was shortlisted for the Big Book Prize in 2010 and was among the winning titles of the Readers' Vote. ![]() Author: Антон Носик Linor (Julia) Goralik was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in 1975 and immigrated to Israel before moving to Moscow in 2001. She is the author of poetry and prose, and comics in Russian. Among them Ustnoye narodnoye tvorсhestvo obitatelei sektora М1(2011),Valery (2011) and others. Her poetry is often described as the "new epic" style. Her works have been translated into English, Italian, and Chinese. Since 2014, she is the editor of the Booknik web project. In 2016, she has been awarded the fellowship in poetry by Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund. Anna Glazova was born in Dubna in 1973. She holds a Ph. D. in German and Comparative Literature from Northwestern University, IL. She has translated into Russian works by Kafka, Celan, Robert Walser and Unica Zürn. Glazova is the author of three volumes of poetry in Russian: Pusti voda (Let Water,2003); Pyetlya. Nyevpolovinu (Loop. Unhalved, 2008) and other. Her poems appeared in English translation in a volume entitled Twice Under the Sun (London, 2008). Dmitry Glukhovsky was born in 1979. He studied journalism and foreign relations in Israel, lived in France and Germany, traveled to places like Chernobyl, the North Pole and the Baikonur launch pad as a reporter for Russia Today. His first novel Metro 2033 was originally published on his website in 2002 with free access to all the readers. The novel has later become an interactive experiment, drawing in thousands of readers. He is famous also with his bestselling novel It's Getting Darker and with the series of satirical Stories of Motherland criticizing today's Russia. ![]() Alexander Ilyanen was born in 1958. He graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow. For more than 20 years he served as a military interpreter. He is currently retired. He is a winner of the Moscow Festival of Vers Libre. Ilyanen has won the Andrei Bely Prize for his novel Boutique Vanity (2007). His And Finn and The Road to U. were nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. His last novel Пенсия (2015) has made a great success and has been much discussed. He lives in St. Petersburg. ![]() ![]() Alexander Kabakov was born in 1943 into a military family. He graduated from Dnepropetrovsk University and after serving in the army, worked as an engineer in a rocket laboratory. In 1988 Kabakov wrote the dystopian novella No Return, which was translated and published widely. The sequel to No Return, the novel Condemned followed in1999. His book Moscow Tales was translated into many languages. He won the Big Book Prize in 2006 for Everything Is Reparable ![]() ![]() ![]() Elena Koliadina was born in Vologda. Since 1995, she has been an author for Cosmopolitan. Her The Flower Cross, a novel written in old Russian language, won the Russian Booker Prize in 2010 and became the literary sensation of the year. The narrative takes the reader back to the XVII century to a town called Totma. It is a story about beautiful young women Theodosia sacrificed by the local priest. The Koliadina's style was criticized for its naturalism. ![]() Photo credit: Institute of Russian Language Kirill Korchagin is a poet, linguist and critic. He was born in 1986 in Moscow. His way to poetry was not typical: after graduation from the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation, he continued his studies and received a Ph.D. in Russian Language from the Institute of Russian Language (2012). Since then, he has taught at Moscow State University and participated in numerous projects on theoretical and applied linguistics. His poetry was first published in the journals Air, Retz, and NLO. Korchagin is the author of the book of verses Propositions. He is a finalist of the LiteratuRRentgen and the Debut Prizes. He is also the laureate of the Moscow Account Minor Prize. Written in the tradition of vers libre, his poetry is innovative and paves the way for new forms of poetic utterance. He lives in Moscow. Vladimir Kozlov was born in 1972 in Mogilev, Belorussia. He spent his childhood and adolescence years on the suburbs of that city. Kozlov graduated from Minsk State Linguistic University, and then from the Indiana University (USA). He has worked as a journalist, editor, translator, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Since the early 2000s, Kozlov has lived in Moscow. He is the author of a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction, including Gopniki ("Hoods") (2002), SSSR ("USSR") (2009), long-listed for the Big Book Award and Domoi ("The Return"), 2010. In 2012 he published two outstanding novels: 1986 and a requiem for the 1990s Svoboda ( Freedom). ![]() ![]() Viktor Kulle was born in 1962 in the city of Kirovo-Chepetsk. Kulle is a poet, translator, literary critic and essayist. He is the author of Russia's first dissertation on Brodsky's poetry (1996) and a commentary on Brodsky's Collected Works. Kulle is the author of the poetry collections Palimpsest (2001) and Everything Seriously (2011), and winner of the Noviy mir magazine prize (2006), the Italian prize “Lerici Pea – Mosca” (2009) and the A.M. Zverev prize from "Inostrannaya literatura magazine" (2013). ![]() ![]() Picture by Dmitry Kuzmin Stanislav Lvovsky was born in 1972 in Moscow. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry at Moscow State University. Lvovsky was one of the founders (together with Dmitry Kuzmin and others) of the Union of Young Writers “Vavilon” in 1989. After graduation, he worked as teacher of English and chemistry. He is the author of three poetry books, a collection of short stories (The Word of Flowers and Dogs), and other books. He was the laureate of the 4th Festival of Vers Libre Poetry (Moscow, 1993) and the first place winner of the Moscow Account Minor Prize (2003). He worked as chief editor of culture on websites OpenSpace.ru and colta.ru. He is a member of the editorial board of the online literary magazine TextOnly. Alexander Kuznetsov-Tulyanin was born in 1963. He lived in the Kuril Islands in the Pacific for ten years. His novel Yazichnik was published in 2006. It was nominated for the Apollon Grigoryev and National Bestseller prizes. It was considered one of the most significant novels of 2006. ![]() ![]() ![]() Victor Pelevin was born in 1962. He has a degree in electromechanical engineering from Moscow Engineering Institute. Pelevin attended seminars in creative writing at Maxim Gorky Literary Institute. His The Blue Lantern received the first Russian Little Booker Prize. His first novel, Omon Ra, was published in 1992. Pelevin is a laureate of multiple literary awards including the Russian National Bestseller (2004). Esoteric motives in Pelevin's books are not incidental; the writer studied Eastern culture and went repeatedly to South Korea to live in a Buddhist retreat. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow in 1938. Today she is regarded as one of Russia's most prominent contemporary women writers and most famous in the West. Her work There Once Lived a Woman who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby, was published by Penguin Books in October 2009 and became a New York Times Book Review bestseller in December 2009. In 2010 it won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection Vera Polozkova was born in Moscow in 1986. She started to write poetry at an age of five. She attends Moscow University. Polozkova rose to prominence with her poetry blog and video production, bringing poetic readings to the young cultural scene. Her first public appearance was in 2007 in Moscow. Polozkova is the author of four poetic books and received numerous literary awards, including the Neformat Prize. She represents the modern day pop-culture in Russian poetry. Andrei Polyakov was born in 1968 in Crimea. He holds a degree in philology from Tavrical National University. He was an editor with the Journal Review, a Crimean digest of Russian literature. He has published three books of poems, including The Orthographic Minimum (2000) . Polyakov is the winner of the Andrey Bely Prize (2011) for his book of poetry Chinese descent (2010). ![]() ![]() gallery.vavilon.ru Vitaly Pukhanov was born in 1966 in Kiev. After a stint in the Soviet army, he studied and graduated from Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. He started publishing his poetry in the early 90's in literary journals. In 1995 his first book The Wooden Garden was published in Moscow. After a stressful year in Kiev where he was unemployed, Pukhanov returned to Moscow and worked on the journal October. Since 2003, he has been the executive secretary of the literary prize Debut . He is the author of three books. His poetry is unusual in the context of the modern poetic scene in Russia: it's traditional and classical in form and appealing through its great lyrical expression. He lives in Moscow. ![]() Andrei Rodionov was born in 1971. Rodionov is an outstanding figure in contemporary Russian poetic scene. His career began in 2000 in Moscow as a performer on poetry slams. In 2002 he was awarded the Russian Slam prize. He continues to be a leading figure in the Russian slam poetry movement; in 2010, he organized the first national Russian slam final in Perm. He is the author of seven books of poetry: Новая драматургия (New Dramaturgy) 2010; Игрушки для окраин (Toys for the Outskirts), 2007; Пельмени устрицы (Dumplings-Oysters), 2004 and others. Valery Ronshin was born in 1962. He graduated with a degree in history from Petrozavodsk University in Karelia and went on study at the Literature Institute in Moscow. He started writing relatively late but broke into top literary magazines almost immediately. His stories are reminiscent of early Pelevin's books. He lives in St. Petersburg. ![]() ![]() Picture by internet portal Andrey Rubanov was born in 1969 in the village Uzunovo near Moscow. His Do Time, Get Time, a semi-autobiographical book about his experience being in prison, was picked up by a publisher and shortlisted for the 2006 National Bestseller Prize. After Rubanov's name was cleared, he worked in Chechnya during 1999-2000 as a press-secretary. His Barely a Drop was translated into English. His book Iodine (2010) combines realism with fantasy and anti-utopia. His novel Patriot was shortlisted for the Big Book Prize - 2017. Dina Rubina was born in 1953 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She studied music at Tashkent Conservatory. After graduation in 1977, she began working at the Institute of Culture. In 1990 Rubina emigrated to Israel. Today she is one of the most widely-read Russian-Israeli authors. Her life and adventures since 1990 are reflected in several of her novels. She is the author of almost twenty books. She lives in Israel and writes in Russian. Lev Rubinstein was born in 1947 in Moscow and worked as a librarian. A laureate of the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize, Rubinstein is an accomplished poet with a sharp eye for unusual detail. His Catalogue of Comedic Novelties (2003) and Here I Am: Performance Poems (2002) were translated into English. German Sadulaev was born in 1973 in the town of Shali, Chechnya to a Chechen father and Cossack mother. In 1989 he left Chechnya to study law at Leningrad State University. Today he lives and works as a lawyer in St Petersburg. His second book, I am a Chechen!, was nominated for the National Bestseller Prize. Nina Sadur was born in 1950 in Novosibirsk. She arrived in Moscow in 1977 to study at the Gorky Literature Institute from which she graduated in 1983. Sadur demonstrates an extraordinary grasp of theatrical conditions in her plays: she both conforms to theatrical tradition and innovations. She developed her own post-Soviet theater language. Her first play, Chudnaia baba (The Weird Peasant Woman, 1989) enjoyed great popularity among the studio theaters that flourished in Moscow during the mid 1980s. This combination of Soviet reality with universal absurdity came to light when Vladimir Tumanov staged Chudnaia baba in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1988. Igor Sakhnovsky was born in 1958 in the city of Orsk, Orenburg region. In 1981 he graduated from Ural State University and worked as a literary consultant. In 1999, in "Novyi Mir" was released his first novel Pressing Needs of the Dead. In 2000, the novel was nominated for the Apollon Grigoriev Prize. In 2002, it was translated into English and awarded the International Literary Prize. In 2007, his novel, The Man who Knew Everything was included in the list of finalists for the National Big Book Prize and Russian Booker. ![]() By Anastasia Karkacheva.Faces of Russian Literature Nikita Safonov is a poet and literary critic. He was born in 1989 in Omsk, Siberia and has lived in Ryazan. Nine years ago, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he graduated from the Mining Institute, Department of Underground Space. He is the author of the book of poems Knots (Узлы, 2011). His poetry was published in the journals Translit, NLO, and Air, and on the websites TextOnly and Halftone. He was a participant in the “Poetronic” festival in Moscow and the 7th annual May festival of new poets. His vers libre poetry is striking with its absence of traditional meter and rhymes, but also with brilliant layered prosody. He lives in St. Petersburg. ![]() Olga Sedakova was born in 1949 in Moscow. She graduated from Moscow State University and earned her Ph.D. in Slavonic Mythology. Since 1991 she has lectured at Moscow State University. She was Chevalier d' Honneur de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la Republique Française in 2005. She is the winner of the Andrei Bely Prize (1983) for poetry, essays and poetry translations in samizdat. Sedakova is the most prominent poet in Russia today. Her The Silk of Time and Poems and Elegies are translated to English. ![]() Sasha Sokolov was considered one of the premier writers of the post-Soviet period in 90s. He was born in 1943 in Ottawa where his father worked at the Soviet embassy. He graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in journalism. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975 and moved to Canada. His book Shkola dlia durakov ( A School for Fools) is a narrative about a boy's life. In 1996 he received the Pushkin Prize for his literary works. Vladimir Sorokin is a post-modern Russian writer, one of the most popular in modern Russia. He was born in 1955 in a small town outside of Moscow. He was trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writing, becoming a major presence in the Moscow underground of the 1980s. His work was banned in the Soviet Union, and his first novel, The Queue, was published by dissident Andrei Sinyavksy in France in 1983. His most famous and controversial novel is the science-fiction Blue Lard. In 2001 he won the National Booker Prize. Viktor Sosnora was born in 1936 in Alupka, Crimea. During WWII he was in Leningrad, then was evacuated from the city through "Road of Life". His first book was published in 1962 . He has lectured in Paris and the United States. The author's book of poetry The January Downpour was published in 1989. Sosnora was the Russian Poet Laureate in 2012. ![]() ![]() Anna Starobinets was born in Moscow in 1978 and graduated from Moscow State University. She writes in the genre of 'intellectual fantasy'. In 2005, Starobinets published her debut collection of strange stories Awkward Age. Maria Stepanova is among the most prominent figures in the modern literary scene in Russia. She is a poet and famous journalist, one of the founders and publishers of OpenSpace.ru and Colta.ru. Stepanova was born in Moscow in 1977 and graduated from Maxim Gorky Literary Institute. She is a participant in the project Vavilon – a publication of contemporary Russian literature online, started by Dmitry Kuzmin. She is the author of ten volumes of poetry and two volumes of essays. Among her books are Songs of Northern Southerners, Happiness, and others. Her Prose of Ivan Sidorov, first published online in 2006, was staged. Her poetry is masterful and a remarkable example of the modern epic ballad. She is the recipient of numerous Russian and international prizes for her poetry, among them the Joseph Brodsky Foundation Memorial Fellowship (2010). Marina Stepnova was born in 1971 in the small town of Efremov, in the Tula region. Stepnova was raised in Moscow, where she now lives. She graduated from Maxim Gorky Literary Institute and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature. She is a translator from Romanian. Stepnova's translation of Nameless Star by Mikhail Sebastien has been staged by numerous theaters throughout Russia. Her novel Surgeon was long-listed for the National Bestseller Prize. Her novel Lazarus's Women was nominated for the National Bestseller prize in 2012. It is written in a genre of family saga. Sergei Shargunov was born in 1980 into the family of a Russian Orthodox priest. He is a graduate of Moscow State University with a degree in international journalism. Since then he has reported from different locations including Chechnya and South Ossetia. In Russia, Shargunov earned a reputation of writer with a social conscience. Since 2000 Shargunov works at the literary magazine New World. In 2016 he became the member of Russian Duma. Shargunov is the editor- in-chief of the internet portal Svobodnaia Pressa. He is the winner of the Debut Prize for his novel Malish nakazan (The Child is Corrected). His Book Without Photographs was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize and a contender for the Big Book Prize. Vladimir Sharov was born in 1952 in Moscow. He graduated from Voronezh University with a degree in history. His first novel was published in 1991 . In 2014 Vladimir Sharov's eighth novel, Возвращение в Египет (Return to Egypt), was shortlisted for The Big Book Prize, Russia's most prestigious literary award. It won the Russian Booker Prize several months later. Its hero, a Soviet agronomist by the name of Nikolai Gogol, who is a descendant of the great Russian writer of the same name, takes upon himself the task of completing his ancestor's unfinished masterpiece, Dead Souls, and leading the Russian people to salvation. Sharov follows the historical journey of Soviet generation whose lives are correlated to the Book of Exodus – hence the novel's title. Tatiana Shcherbina was born in 1954. She graduated from Moscow State University. Prior 1986, Shcherbina published in samizdat ( nonofficial literature) six books. In 1991 in Russia were published her collections of poetry, prose and the collection of translations of contemporary French poetry. She lived in Munich and Paris in 1991-95 and worked as a correspondent of Radio Svoboda. ![]() Elena Shvarts (1948-2010) was one of the leaders of Leningrad's underground culture in 1970-80s. Born in Leningrad, she lived there her entire life. Shvarts attended University of Tartu, where her first poems were published in the university newspaper in 1973. Her work began to appear in émigré journals since 1978. She published two collections of poetry: Tantsuyushchii David and Stikhi and a novel in verse Trudy i dni Lavinii abroad before a collection Storony sveta was allowed to be published in the Soviet Union, "bringing her immediate recognition both at home and abroad". Collected Works by Elena Shvarts were published by Pushkinskii fund in 2002-08. Fedor Svarovsky was born in 1971 and immigrated to Denmark at the age of 19, where he received refugee status and lived for six years. In 1997, he returned to Moscow where he continues to work as a journalist. He is the author of several books. His first book of poetry Все хотят быть роботами was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize (2007). In 2011, Svarovsky participated in PEN's New Voices reading series in NYC. He is the author of notable “New Epos” Manifesto ( 2008) and a leading figure in "new epic" literary movement in Russian poetry. ![]() gallery.vavilon.ru Nikita Sungatov is a poet and literary critic. He was born in 1992 in Prokopyevsk, a small mining city in Siberia, and studied at Moscow Maxim Gorky Literary Institute. Since 2010, he has published his poetry in the literary journals Air, NLO, and Translit. His poetry is characterized by the refusal from the individual voice, by its epic narrative and brilliant linguistic tools. All together it creates a unique poetic style. In 2015, Sungatov published his first collection of poems, the Débute Book of the Young Poet (Debyutnaya kniga molodogo poeta) about the everyday struggles of talented and restless youth. It evoked a broad interest among young readers with its dry humor, literary merit and political undertones. ![]() Tatiana Tolstaya was born in 1951 in Leningrad into a family of rich literary tradition. Her grandfather was writer Aleksei Tolstoy. Tolstaya graduated from Leningrad State University. She moved to Moscow in the early 1980.Today her life is divided between the U.S., where she spends half of the year lecturing at a university, and Russia. Several collections of her short stories were translated to English. Alexey Tsvetkov was born in Ukraine in 1947. He studied history at Moscow State University, and hold a Ph.D. in philology from Michigan State University. In 1975, he became a founding member of the Moscow Time group of poets, which also included Bakhyt Kenzheev, Alexander Soprovsky and Sergey Gandlevsky. Tsvetkov immigrated to the USA in 1975. He worked for the Voice of America and radio Svoboda as a radio journalist. His first three collections were published in the USA. In 1996, the book entitled Poems was published in St. Petersburg. ![]() Andrei Usachev was born in 1958 in Moscow. He attended Moscow Institute of Electronics but left to study humanities at Tver State University. He is the author of books for children In 2005 he won The Book of the Year Prize (children's). Tatiana Ustinova has published close to 30 novels and is one of the most popular Russian crime fiction authors. Dmitry Vedenyapin was born in 1958 in Moscow. He graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. Vedenyapin is the author of four poetry collections. He won the Big Moscow Count Poetry Prize for the book Mezhdu shkafom i nebom (Between the wardrobe and the sky) in 2010, and became Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellow in 2011. ![]() Dmitry Vodennikov is a poet, radio host and essayist. In 2002, he was named one of the top ten best living Russian poets. He was born in 1968 in Moscow, and graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. After graduation, he worked as a teacher for several years. He continues his humanitarian mission today by helping a children's foundation. Vodennikov is considered to be a leader of the “New Sincerity” movement in Russian literature. He is the author of several volumes of poetry: Tchernovik, 2006, Promise (Obeshanie, 2011), and Hello, I've come to bid you farewell (Zdravstvyite, ya prishel s vami poproschatsya) – an autobiographical novel (2007). For a number of years, Vodennikov has been hosting radio shows about contemporary Russian literature including “Notes from a Neophyte,” “From One's Own Angle” (Своя колокольня), and “Poetic Minimum. ![]() Valery Votrin was born in 1974 in Tashkent into a Russian family. He studied English Language and Literature at the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies at Tashkent State University. Since 2000, he has lived in Belgium where he received a M.S. degree in Human Ecology and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the Free University of Brussels. He has worked as an environmental consultant. He started to publish short stories and novels since 1995. In 2009, his novel The Last Magog was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize. Another novel, The Speech Therapist ( Логопед) 2012 was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize and the Big Book Prize. It is one of the brightest examples of Russian postmodernism. Mikhail Weller was born in Kamenets-Podolsky, Ukraine in 1948. He graduated with a degree in linguistics from Leningrad University in 1972. He worked as a logger and a hunter in the taiga, a shepherd, a teacher and a journalist. Currently he teaches modern Russian literature at the universities of Milan, Jerusalem and Copenhagen. His Major Zvyagin's Adventures (1991) and Legends of Nevsky Prospect (1993), became bestsellers. Another of Weller's bestsellers, scandalous The Courier From Pisa (2000) has had 11 editions. His short novel The Knife of Seryozha Dovlatov created a literary scandal. Leonid Yuzefovich was born in 1947 in Moscow. Yuzefovich spent his youth in the Urals, graduating from Perm University with a Ph.D. in History. Yuzefovich's novel, Cranes and Pygmies, won the Big Book award and was nominated for the National Bestseller Prize in 2009. It is a tour-de-force which unfolds in three settings: in present-day Mongolia, in Russia in 1993, and in the 17th century. It was translated into English. ![]() ![]() Guzel Yakhina was born in Kazan in 1977 and now lives in Moscow. She graduated from the Moscow Screenwriting Academy. Zuleikha Opens her Eyes is her debut novel. In 2015, it has received the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize and won the Big Book Prize. The novel is about the fate of Zuleikha, a peasant woman living in a remote Tatar village in the 1930s, and other villagers who were sent to a Siberian labor camp. |
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