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Vladimir Sorokin is a Russian writer and playwright. He is best known for his novels and plays, which often feature absurdist and surrealist elements. He has been called "one of the most important and controversial Russian writers of the post-Soviet era." Sorokin was born in Bykovo, a small village near Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Art Theater School and worked as a scriptwriter for television and film. He began writing fiction in the late 1980s, and his first novel, The Queue, was published in 1988. Sorokin has since published numerous novels, plays, and short stories. His works often explore themes of Russian history and culture, as well as the absurdities of modern life. He has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Russian Booker Prize in 2002 and the Andrei Bely Prize in 2004. Sorokin is also an outspoken critic of the Russian government and its policies. He has been arrested several times for his political activism, and his works have been banned in Russia.

Popular As Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin
Occupation Writer
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 7 August, 1955
Birthday 7 August
Birthplace Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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1989

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 Andrei Bely Prize for outstanding contributions to Russian literature. In 2002, there was a protest against his book Blue Bacon Fat, and he was investigated for pornography.

1970

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).

1955

Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin (Russian: Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Соро́кин ; born 7 August 1955) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist, one of the most popular in modern Russian literature.

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