Vladimir Sorokin

Infobox Writer
name = Vladimir Sorokin

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movement = Postmodernism
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website = http://srkn.ru

Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin ( _ru. Владимир Георгиевич Сорокин) (born August 7, 1955 in Bykovo, Moscow Oblast) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist, one of the most popular in modern Russian literature.

Biography

Sorokin was born on August 7, 1955 in Bykovo, Moscow Oblast near Moscow. In 1972 he made his literary debut with a publication in the newspaper "Za Kadry Neftyanikov" ( _ru. За кадры нефтяников, lit. "For the petroleum industry manager"). He studied at the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow and graduated in 1977 as an engineer.

After graduation he worked for one year for the magazine "Change" ( _ru. Смена), before he had to leave due to his refusal to become a member of the Komsomol.

Bibliography

Novels

* "Ochered"' (The Queue) [1983] . Paris: Syntaxe, 1985. (Translated into English, 1988. ISBN 978-0930523442.)
* "Norma" (The Norm) [1979-1983] . Moscow: Tri Kita in cooperation with Obscuri Viri, 1994.
* "Roman" (A Novel) [1985-1989] . Moscow: Tri Kita in cooperation with Obscuri Viri, 1994.
* "Tridtsataia liubov’ Mariny" (Marina’s Thirtieth Love) [1982-1984] . Moscow: Izdanie R. Elinina, 1995.
* "Serdtsa chetyryokh" (Four Stout Hearts) [1991] . Moscow: Literary Miscellany Konets Veka, 1994.
* "Pervy Subbotnik" (The First Saturday Workday) [1979-1984] . In Collected Works in Two Volumes. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1998.
* "Goluboe Salo" (Blue Salo) [1999] . Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1999.
* "Pir" (The Feast) [2000] . Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2000.
* "Lyod" (Ice) [2002] . Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2002. (Translated into English by Jamey Gambrell, 2007. ISBN 1590171950.)
* "Put' Bro" (Bro's way) [2004] . Moscow: Zakharov, 2004.
* "23000" [2005] in Trilogy (Trilogiya). Moscow: Zakharov, 2005.
* "Den' oprichnika" (Oprichnik's Day) [2006] . Moscow: Zakharov, 2006.

Plays

* "Pelmeni" (1984-1987)
* "Zemlyanka" (The Hut, or Earth-house 1985)
* "Russkaya Babushka" (Russian Grandmother) (1988)
* "Doverie" (Confidence) (1989)
* "Dismorphomania" (1990)
* "Yubiley" (Anniversary) (1993)
* "Hochzeitreise" (The Post-Nuptial Journey) (1994-1995)
* "Shchi" (Cabbage Soup) (1995-1996)
* "Dostoevsky-Trip" (1997)
* "S Novym Godom" (Happy New Year) (1998)

Film Scripts

* "Bezumny Fritz" (Mad Fritz), 1994. Directors: Tatiana Didenko and Alexander Shamaysky.
* "Moskva" (Moscow), 2001. Director: Alexander Zeldovich. First Prize on the festival in Bonn; Award of Federation of Russian Film-Clubs for best Russian movie of the year.
* "Kopeyka" (Kopeck), 2002. Director: Ivan Dykhovichny. Nomination for Award "Zolotoy Oven" for best film script.
* "4 (Four)", 2004. Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Grand Jury Prize of International Film Festival Rotterdam.
* "Veshch" (Thing). Director: Ivan Dykhovichny.
* "Cashfire". Director: Alexander Schurikhin.

Other works

* Photograph album V Glub' Rossii (In the Depths of Russia), in cooperation with painter Oleg Kulik.
* Libretto for opera "Deti Rozentalya" ("Rosenthal's Children"), with music by Leonid Desyatnikov; written on request of the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow.
* dozens of stories published in Russian and foreign periodicals.

External links

* [http://www.srkn.ru/english Official Webpage] .
* [http://www.srkn.ru/bibliography/ Full bibliography (in Russian)] .
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,463860,00.html "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire"] , interview to Spiegel, February 2, 2007.
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