Vladimir Sorokin
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Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Сорокин) (born August 7, 1955) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer.
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[edit] Biography
Vladimir Sorokin was born on August 7, 1955 in the small town of Bykovo, near Moscow. He made his literary debut in 1972 in the large industrial newspaper Za kadry neftyanikov. In 1977, he graduated from the Moscow Instutute of Oil and Gas with a degree in engineering, but quickly abandoned this field to pursue his interests in graphic arts, painting, and conceptual art. Throughout the 1970s, Sorokin participated in a number of art exhibitions and designed and illustrated nearly 50 books.
Sorokin’s development as a writer took place amidst painters and writers of the Moscow underground scene of the 1980s. In 1985, six of Sorokin’s stories appeared in the Paris magazine A-Ya. In the same year, French publisher Syntaxe published his novel Ochered' (The Queue).
Sorokin's works, bright and striking examples of underground culture, were banned during the Soviet period. His first publication in the USSR appeared in November 1989, when the Riga-based Latvian magazine Rodnik (Spring) presented a group of Sorokin's stories. Soon after, his stories appeared in Russian literary miscellanies and magazines Tretya Modernizatsiya (The Third Modernization), Mitin Zhurnal (Mitya's Journal), Konets Veka (End of the Century), and Vestnik Novoy Literatury (Bulletin of the New Literature). In 1992, Russian publishing house Russlit published Sbornik Rasskazov (Collected Stories) – Sorokin’s first book to be nominated for a Russian Booker Prize. In September 2001, Vladimir Sorokin received the People's Booker Prize; two months later, he was presented with the Award of Andrei Bely for outstanding contributions to Russian literature.
Sorokin's books have been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Romanian and Croatian, and are available through a number of prominent publishing houses, including Gallimard, Fischer, DuMont, BV Berlin, Haffman, Mlinarec & Plavic and Verlag der Autoren.
He is also a member of Russian PEN Club.
Sorokin lives in Moscow with his wife and twin daughters.
[edit] Sorokin's Works
[edit] Novels
(With dates of first publication; working dates have been included in brackets. Note: for a comprehensive list of Sorokin’s publications, please see http://www.srkn.ru/bibliography/)
- Den' oprichnika [2006]. Moscow: Zakharov, 2006.
- 23000 [2005] in Trilogy (Trilogiya). Moscow: Zakharov, 2005.
- Put' Bro (Bro's way) [2004]. Moscow: Zakharov, 2004.
- Lyod (Ice) [2002]. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2002.
- Pir (The Feast) [2000]. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2000.
- Goluboe Salo (Blue Salo) [1999]. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1999.
- Pervy Subbotnik (The First Saturday Workday) [1979-1984]. In Collected Works in Two Volumes. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1998.
- Serdtsa chetyryokh (Four Stout Hearts) [1991]. Moscow: Literary Miscellany Konets Veka, 1994.
- Tridtsataia liubov’ Mariny (Marina’s Thirtieth Love) [1982-1984]. Moscow: Izdanie R. Elinina, 1995.
- Roman (A Novel) [1985-1989]. Moscow: Tri Kita in cooperation with Obscuri Viri, 1994.
- Norma (The Norm) [1979-1983]. Moscow: Tri Kita in cooperation with Obscuri Viri, 1994.
- Ochered' (The Queue) [1983]. Paris: Syntaxe, 1985.
[edit] Plays
Published in various magazines.
- Doverie (Confidence) [1989].
- Hochzeitreise (The Post-Nuptial Journey) [1994-1995].
- Dismorphomania [1990].
- Pelmeni [1984-1987].
- Dostoevsky-Trip [1997].
- Russkaya Babushka (Russian Grandmother) [1988].
- Shchi (Cabbage Soup) [1995-1996].
- S Novym Godom (Happy New Year) [1998].
- Yubiley (Anniversary) [1993].
- Zemlyanka (The Hut, or Earth-house) [1985].
[edit] 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 Zeldovich.
[edit] 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.
