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Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin is a Russian writer, screenwriter and playwright, artist. One of the most prominent representatives of conceptualism and social art in Russian literature. The author of ten novels, as well as a number of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays.
Winner of Andrei Bely, "nose", "Big book" and others, nominee Of the international Booker prize. The books have been translated into dozens of languages. In Russia, the works of Vladimir Sorokin many times became the subject of public debate, including litigation.
Vladimir was born on August 7, 1955 in the village of Bykovo near Moscow. Parents often moved from place to place, so he changed several schools.
He studied at the Moscow Gubkin Institute of oil and gas industry. Having received higher education as a mechanical engineer, Sorokin worked for a year in the magazine "Smena", where he was fired for refusing to join the Komsomol, although in fact he was already in it, but when he was disbanded from the University cell, he tore his ticket and money, flushing them down the toilet after that. He was engaged in book graphics, painting, conceptual art. Participant of many art exhibitions. He designed and illustrated about 50 books.
As a writer, he was formed among the artists and writers of the Moscow underground of the 1980s.
In 1985, a selection of Sorokin's six short stories was published in the Paris journal A — Z. In this issue of the magazine, which was the first and only, in addition to 5 short stories, was published an excerpt of "Queue", which in the same year was printed in another French magazine - "Syntax". And after Sorokin's stories, in" A — Z " one of the first articles representing the young writer are published. The authors were Sven Gundlach — "Character author", and Andrei Monastyrsky- "about Sorokin's Prose", hiding behind the initials "A. M.".
It is considered a representative of postmodernism. Stories and novels use a variety of literary styles. In Soviet times, he was close to the circle of Moscow conceptualism, published in samizdat (in particular, in the "Mitin magazine"). The first official publication in the Soviet Union dates back to 1989, when the Riga magazine "Rodnik" placed in the November issue of several stories of the writer. A little later Sorokin's stories appear in Russian magazines and almanacs "Third modernization", "Place of printing", "Art of cinema", "End of the century", "Bulletin of new literature".
In March 1992, Vladimir Sorokin goes to the General reader-in the magazine "Art of cinema" published the novel "Queue" (in abbreviations), publishing house "Russlite" (Moscow) published a collection of short stories by Vladimir Sorokin, included in the shortlist of the Booker prize. The manuscript of the novel "Hearts of four" is presented for the Booker prize and is shortlisted.
The subjects of his works have repeatedly caused controversy among the reading public. The Pro-Kremlin movement "Going together" organized a number of actions against the writer (including burning his books), and also sued, demanding recognition of some places in the works of the writer pornographic. The court found nothing illegal in the works of the writer.
On March 23, 2005, the Bolshoi theatre of Russia hosted the world premiere of the Opera Rosenthal's Children by composer Leonid Desyatnikov, with a libretto by Vladimir Sorokin.
Vladimir Sorokin's books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. In the West, his novels were published in such major publishers as Gallimard, S. Fischer, DuMont, BV Berlin, Einaudi, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NYRB.
Thirty years later, Vladimir Sorokin returned to painting and wrote two cycles: "New anthropology" and "Three Friends". In 2017, the Tallinn portrait gallery hosted his solo exhibition.
Until January 2017, he was a member of The Russian PEN center. In January 2017, he announced his withdrawal from the PEN center in protest against the actions of the Executive Committee.