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Dmitry Biriukov 

Dmitry Biriukov, prose writer and essayist, was born in 1979 in Novosibirsk, where he still lives and works as a journalist. He graduated  from Novosibirsk University and later took a postgraduate…...

Natalia Klyuchareva 

Born in 1981, Natalia Klyuchareva is a Moscow journalist. She won the Debut Prize in 2002 and the Yuri Kazakov Literary Prize for short stories in 2007.

Andrei Sen-Senkov 

Andrei Sen-Senkov is Tajikistan born poet living in Moscow, where he works as a doctor. In the U.S. his work has been published in Aufgabe, Interim, Jacket, Zoland, and anthologized in Crossing Centuries…...

Julia Idlis 

Julia Idlis, PhD, is a poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and journalist, born in 1981 in Kaliningrad, Russia. Idlis graduated from the Moscow State University (the Philological Faculty) and wrote…...

Aleksey Porvin 

Aleksey Porvin is a contemporary Russian poet. Translations of his poems can be found in Ryga Journal,  Saint-Petersburg Review, SUSS, The Dirty Goat, and World Literature Today.…...

Dmitry Kuzmin 

Dmitri Kuzmin (b.1968) graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University (Philology Dept.). He has taught literature in colleges,  and worked as assistant professor of foreign literatures and literary…...

Evgeny Shklovsky 

Evgeny Shklovsky publishes stories regularly in the leading Russian literary journals including Novy Mir and Znamia. Acquarium, a collection of his stories, appeared in 2008. He is also a prolific critic…...

Alexei Ivanov 

Alexei Ivanov was born in Perm, the Urals, in 1969. He studied journalism, and later the history of art, at Yekaterinburg State University. On his return to Perm he worked as a tour guide in a local travel…...

Viktor Ivaniv 

Viktor Ivaniv (b. 1977, Novo Sibirsk) has a graduate degree in philology from Novy Sibirsk University, where he studied Russian avant-garde poetry. He was short-listed for the Debut Prize (2002). He is…...

Danila Davydov 

Danila Davydov (b. 1977) is a poet, critic, and editor. He is the first laureate of the Debut Prize (2000) for a collection of short fiction titled Experiences in Heartlessness. He was the editor of Brother's…...

Ekaterina Taratuta 

Ekaterina Taratuta is the author of works of fiction, including "One Hundred and One Minutes" (2007), "The General Hygiene of Dr. Andreas" (forthcoming), and "Fishes and Frogs" (forthcoming), and an academic…...

Vladimir Sorokin 

Vladimir Sorokin was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He 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…...

Vladimir Makanin 

Vladimir Makanin is among the best-known Russian writers of the last twenty years. Born in 1937 in the Urals, he was trained as a mathematician and later as a filmmaker. His first passion was chess and…...

Alexander Skidan 

Poet, critic, and translator  was born in Leningrad. His poetry has been translated into English, Estonian, Finish, French, Hebrew, Italian and Swedish. His poetry collections include Delirium, In…...

Anyuta Evseeva 

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya 

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in Moscow in 1938. Her stories and plays were blacklisted by the Soviets until perestroika. Since then, two of her novels have been shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize,…...

Ludmila Ulitskaya 

Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943) is one of Russia's leading prose writers; her works have achieved a vast and ardent following in Russia and have been translated into over twenty foreign languages. Born…...

Maxim Kantor 

The artist and writer Maxim Kantor was born in Moscow in 1957 and graduated from the Moscow Art Polytechnic in 1980. In 1983 he organized the independent group of painters that was later called Krasny…...

Alexander Vvedensky 

Alexander Vvedensky (1904-41) was the founder of OBERIU, Russia's last avant-garde group, with Daniil Kharms and Nikolai Zabolotsky. After OBERIU folded in 1930, Vvedensky wrote without the intention…...

Nadezhda Gorlova 

Nadezhda Gorlova was born in 1975 in Moscow, where she lives today. She works at Literaturnaya Gazeta, a well-known Moscow newspaper. She was awarded the Novyi Mir prize in 1995 for her story "A Journey…...

Regina Derieva 

Regina Derieva has published twenty books of poetry, essays, and prose. Her most recent book of poems in English translation is Alien Matter: New and Selected Poems. Derieva's poetry has appeared in…...

Andrei Gelasimov 

Andrei Gelasimov was born in Irkutsk in 1965. He studied at the University for International Languages in Irkutsk, and attended directing classes at the Moscow Theater Institute. He has become a Russian…...

Alexei Bayer 

Alexei Bayer was born in Moscow. In 1974 he immigrated to the United States, where he works as an economist and economic writer. His fiction works have been published in various US literary journals, including…...

Olga Slavnikova 

Olga Slavnikova's third novel, The Man Who Couldn't Die, which won her the Apollon Grigoriev Prize and was short-listed for both the Belkin Prize and the National Bestseller Prize, has been published…...

Alexei Parshchikov 

Alexei Parshchikov was born in 1954, not far from Vladivostok. He was raised in the Ukraine, and after secondary school entered the Kiev Academy of Agriculture. He spent two years as an agricultural scientist…...

Victor Pelevin 

Born in Moscow, Victor Pelevin has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and Open City and was selected by The New Yorker as one of the "Best European Writers Under Thirty-Five" and by The Observer…...

Maria Arbatova 

Maria Ivanovna Arbatova was born in 1957. She studied in the Faculty of Philosophy in the Moscow State University, in the Dramatic Arts division of the Gorky Literary Institute, and underwent training…...

Peter Golub 

Peter Golub is a Moscow-born poet and translator. He has published original work and translations in various journals, including ARC Poetry, Cimarron, and World Literature Today. In 2008 he edited an anthology…...

Mikhail Shishkin 

Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961. He won the 2000 Booker Prize for his Seizure of Ismael and the 2005 National Bestseller Prize and the 2006 National "Big Book" Prize for his Maiden's Hair.…...

Uwe Timm 

Uwe Timm was born in Hamburg in 1940.   Timm is co-founder of AutorenEdition and served as editor from 1972 to 1982. Timm also co-published the literary journal Literarische Hefte. Timm's latest…...

Tatyana Moseeva 

Tatyana Moseeva was born in 1983 in Moscow. Moseeva's poems have been published in literary magazines in Russia (Vavilon, REZ, the newspaper Book Review) and some literary websites, and were included…...

Vera Kobets 

Vera Kobets lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. But it`s also possible to say she lives in the world of books. Such a literature-centered life is rather difficult and not altogether pleasant. But sometimes…...

Eufrosinia Kersnovskaia 

Eufrosinia Kersnovskaia descended from the Russian gentry and survived the Soviet gulag working as a logger and a miner. A complete version of her memoirs (including more than seven hundred watercolors)…...

Ilia Kitup 

Born in 1964 in Russia, Ilia Kitup is a founding member of the Soviet comics fanzine, Kitup's Own Propeller Comics. Kitup also writes poetry and prose, paints, and plays ska music. He lives in Berlin,…...

Daniil Kharms 

Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) was one of the founders of OBERIU, often described as Russia'?s last avant-garde group. His books in English translation include Incidences, translated by Neil Cornwell (Serpent's…...

Yuri Rytkheu 

Born in Uelen, a village in the Chukotka region of Siberia, Yuri Rytkheu has sailed the Bering Sea, worked on Arctic geological expeditions, and hunted whale in Arctic waters, in addition to authoring…...

Aleksandr Chudakov 

Aleksandr Pavlovich Chudakov was born in 1938 to a family of teachers in the city of Shchuchensk in Soviet Northern Kazakhstan. In 1960 he graduated with a degree in philology from Moscow State University,…...

Arn Tseytlin 

Arn Tseytlin (Aaron Zeitlin), a poet, playwright, journalist and essayist in Hebrew and Yiddish, was born in 1898 or 1899 in White Russia. He was a member of a renowned literary family which moved to Warsaw…...

Grigori Kruzhkov 

Grigori Kruzhkov is a poet and translator born in 1945. He graduated from the physics department of Tomsk University and attended graduate school, specializing in the physics of high energies. He published…...

Marina Tsvetaeva 

Marina Tsvetaeva is widely acknowledged by critics and by Russian readers as a leading Russian poet of the twentieth century. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to Tsvetaeva in 1926: "You, poet, do you sense how…...

Larissa Miller 

Born in 1940, Larissa Miller was educated at the Foreign Languages Institute in Moscow and later taught at Moscow University. A major lyrical poet, she is the author of ten books, including Nameless Day;…...

Alexander Pokrovsky 

Alexander Pokrovsky, born in 1952, began writing to relieve the boredom of night watches in the navy. To date he has published four widely acclaimed books: Fire Away!, The Hippo, Fire Away! 2, and Seventy-Two…...

Alexander Selin 

Alexander Selin was born in 1960 in the little town of Volzhsk on the Volga. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics Engineering and worked as a physicist for eight years. During that time he…...

Vyacheslav Pyetsukh 

Vyacheslav Alekseevich Pyetsukh was born in Moscow in 1946, trained as a historian, and taught Russian and world history until his literary activities made school officials so nervous they fired him. He…...

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