Pavlov Oleg Olegovich.
Russian writer and publicist.
Born March 16, 1970 in Moscow. After graduation, he was drafted into the army, served in the convoy troops of the Turkestan Military District, served as a guard in Karaganda camps, was commissioned for health reasons. The first stories were published in 1990. In 1994 he graduated from the correspondence department of the Literary Institute. Published in the journals “New World”, “Banner”, “Friendship of Peoples”, “Continent”, “Questions of Literature”,
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Pavlov Oleg Olegovich.
Russian writer and publicist.
Born March 16, 1970 in Moscow. After graduation, he was drafted into the army, served in the convoy troops of the Turkestan Military District, served as a guard in Karaganda camps, was commissioned for health reasons. The first stories were published in 1990. In 1994 he graduated from the correspondence department of the Literary Institute. Published in the journals “New World”, “Banner”, “Friendship of Peoples”, “Continent”, “Questions of Literature”, “Moscow” and others. Since 1996, the main literary works have been published in the journal “October”: the novels “Matyushin’s Case”, “In Godless Alleys”, the story “Schoolmen”, “Karaganda Nineties”. Essays on the works of Platonov, Prishvin, Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, camp prose and modern Russian writers were included in the cycles “Classics and Contemporaries”, “Metaphysics of Russian Prose”. As a publicist, he stated his topic with acutely social articles and essays – “Non-literary collection”, “Russian letters”, “Diary of a hospital guard”; at the same time, he acted as a literary critic – his polemical speeches and literary-critical articles were published on the pages of leading domestic publications and became a noticeable phenomenon in the literary life of the last decade. A well-known writer, one of the few constantly lectures on contemporary literature at Russian universities, drawing attention to Russian prose in Russia itself.
Author of books: “Steppe Book”, narration in short stories, St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, 1998; “State Fairy Tale”, novels and short stories, M.: Vagrius, 1999; “Tales of the Last Days”, trilogy, M.: Central Polygraph, 2001; “Russian Man in the XX Century”, M.: Russian Way, 2003.
Translated into English, Chinese, Italian and Slovak.
Booker Prize winner.