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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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fiction

August 2013

How to Be an American

Will Heinrich

fiction

August 2013

Begin with a man on the beach. The sea is strangely iridescent, lighter in its lights and blacker in...

Prize Entry

April 2015

Les Archives du Coeur

Paul McQuade

Prize Entry

April 2015

The bike wheels skit and bounce on the loose dirt path. The smell of hot rubber and the smell...

fiction

January 2014

Son of Man

Yi Mun-yol

TR. Brother Anthony of Taizé

fiction

January 2014

Rain falling onto thick layers of accumulated dust had left the windows of the criminal investigations office so mottled...

 

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