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.

June 26, 2021

Alisa Ganieva: Giving Dagestan a Voice through Modern Literature

“He regards himself as a Dagestani, but he doesn’t know what that means. This is a problem of many people in Russia, but especially in the Caucasus after seventy years of Soviet erosion of historical memory.” This is how Alisa Ganieva describes a character from her first full-length novel, The Mountain and the Wall. The […]

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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

Dmitry Glukhovsky: Viral Literature

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