Vladimir Sorokin, whose work was banned during the Soviet period, is the author of many novels, plays, short stories, screenplays, and a libretto. He is one of the most celebrated living writers in Russia.
Sorokin has won the Andrei Bely Prize for outstanding contributions to Russian literature and is a recipient of the People’s Book Prize. The long-awaited Ice Trilogy (New York Review Books Classics) and Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) will be released in English in 2011.
He lives in Moscow.
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