Author Biographies

Below are several author biographies to introduce you to writers, the lives they lived, and the works they created. We have concentrated on modern writers and lesser-known authors as there is far less about them online but they are often just as deserving of study as those within popular cannons.

November 17, 2018

Vladimir Sharov: Literature That Shines a Light on Dark History

Vladimir Sharov was a Russian writer who was deeply interested in the legacy of Russia’s Communist history. His nine novels focus on various aspects of this history: the communist schisms, Bolshevism, Stalin’s Terror, and the USSR’s collapse, and often mixes or juxtaposes ideas from Communism and religion. Russia’s Soviet history was deeply personal to Sharov, […]

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Victor Pelevin: Postmodernism for a Post-Soviet Society

Sergei Lukyanenko: A Psychologist in Russian Science Fiction

Dmitry Bykov: History and Irony in the Spirit of Protest

Olga Bergholz: “The Voice of the Blockade”

Tatyana Tolstaya: From Sightlessness to Imagination

Boris Akunin: Nom de Plume, Nom de Guerre

Dmitry Glukhovsky: Viral Literature

Julius “Jay” Wachtel: History, Fiction, and Something In between

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