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Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin was born in 1955. He is the author of many novels, plays, short stories and screenplays, and of a libretto. Sorokin has won the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize, and was nominated for the Booker–Open Russia Literary Prize. He lives in Moscow. Two books by Sorokin are coming out in English next year: a collection of short stories, Dispatches from the District Committee, and his infamous novel Blue Lard.

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The Boar’s Gambit

Fiction

October 2022

Vladimir Sorokin

TR. Max Lawton

Fiction

October 2022

The President of a small European country was dozing on a wave bed when his platinum smartphone, resting upon his ebony nightstand, began to...

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poetry

October 2012

Bacon’s Friends

Stephen Devereux

poetry

October 2012

Always got caught out by their shadows: Stuck to their soles like monkeys on trapezes, Cellophane fortune tellers curling...

poetry

November 2013

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

George Szirtes

poetry

November 2013

And so they shone, every one of them, each crazy, everyone a diamond shining the way things shine, each...

Prize Entry

April 2017

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Anna Glendenning

Prize Entry

April 2017

 1. PhD   Blue bedroom, Grandma’s house, Aigburth, Liverpool   I gave birth to one hundred thousand words. Tessellated,...

 

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