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Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin (Russian: Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Соро́кин; born 7 August 1955) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist. He has been described as one of the most popular writers in modern Russian literature .
May 6, 2024 · Vladimir Sorokin, Russian novelist and playwright considered to be one of the most influential figures in postmodern Russian literature. He was known particularly for his vivid experimental, and often controversial, works that parody the Socialist Realism of the Soviet Union.
Jun 24, 2022 · Writer Vladimir Sorokin: ‘I underestimated the power of Putin’s madness’. The Russian exile on seeing his fiction become fact, the ‘zombie’ of empire — and how culture will pay a price for the...
Apr 16, 2022 · Sorokin is widely regarded as one of Russia’s most inventive writers, an iconoclast who has chronicled the country’s slide toward authoritarianism, with subversive fables that satirize...
Feb 1, 2023 · Prominent Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin spoke with RFE/RL about Russia’s war against Ukraine, the hidden forces driving it, and its consequences for Russian society and culture.
Vladimir Sorokin ( Владимир Сорокин, Vlagyimir Szorokin) 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 underground of the 1980s.
Sep 27, 2021 · Fiction. Red Pyramid. By Vladimir Sorokin. September 27, 2021. Illustration by Mike McQuade. To put it plainly, Yura confused Fryazino with Fryazevo and went the wrong way. Natasha had...
