Vladimir Sorokin

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born

August 07, 1955 in Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation

gender

male

website

http://www.srkn.ru/

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Vladimir Sorokin was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writing, becoming a major presence in the Moscow underground of the 1980s. His work was banned in the Soviet Union, and his first novel, The Queue, was published by the famed émigré dissident Andrei Sinyavsky in France in 1983. In 1992, Sorokin’s Collected Stories was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize; in 1999, the publication of the controversial novel Blue Lard, which included a sex scene between clones of Stalin and Khrushchev, led to public demonstrations against the book and to demands that Sorokin be prosecuted as a pornographer; in 2001, he received the Andrei Biely Award fo...more

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Books by Vladimir Sorokin

Average rating: 3.56 · 1,272 ratings · 154 reviews · 34 distinct works

	Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel by Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Ice (New York Review Books Classics) by Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell (Translator) 3.39 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Queue 3.82 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell (Translator) 3.36 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Голубое сало by Vladimir Sorokin, Владимир Сорокин 3.36 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Норма by Vladimir Sorokin, Владимир Сорокин 4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Сахарный Кремль 3.52 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Метель by Vladimir Sorokin, Владимир Сорокин 3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Put' Bro 3.64 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Пир by Vladimir Sorokin, Владимир Сорокин 3.33 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2001	My rating: