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.

August 2, 2021

Marina Tsvetaeva: A Life of Romance and Revolution

Often cited as one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, Marina Tsvetaeva lived a tempestuous life, from her early demonstrations of talent to her early death. Early Life of Marina Tsvetaeva Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1892, to Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, a professor of Fine Art and later founder […]

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Alisa Ganieva: Giving Dagestan a Voice through Modern Literature

Yevgeni Grishkovetz: One Man’s Voice

Vladimir Sharov: Literature That Shines a Light on Dark History

Victor Pelevin: Postmodernism for a Post-Soviet Society

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

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