The Modern Novel

Biography

Vladimir Sorokin was born in 1955 in Bykovo, near Moscow. The family moved from place to place. He studied at the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow and graduated in 1977 as an engineer.
He After graduating as a mechanical engineer, He worked for a year for Smena magazine, from which he was fired for refusing to join the Komsomol , although in fact he already was a member, He took up book design, painting and conceptual art and has had many exhibitions. He started writing when he became involved in Moscow’s underground scene, publishing some stories in a French magazine and then his first novel Очередь (The Queue) with the same French publisher. During the Soviet era his work was banned and in the post-Soviet era it has been very controversial,attracting a lot of criticism. He has written short stories, novels, articles/essays, film scripts and plays. More recently he returned to painting.

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Vladimir Sorokin and the Russian Novel’s Identity Crisis
Interview
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Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power (article by Sorokin)
Horse Soup (story by Sorokin)
White Square (story by Sorokin)
His homepage (in Russian)
Vladimir Sorokin (in Russian)
Detailed bibliography (in Russian)
Interview (in Russian)
Interview (in Russian)