Vladimir Makanin

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Vladimir Makanin (Russian: Владимир Семёнович Маканин; born March 1937 in Orsk, Russia), is a Russian writer.

[edit] Life

Makanin is writing poetry, novels and short stories. He graduated from Moscow State University and worked as a mathematician in the Military Academy until the early 1960s. In 1963 he took a course in scriptwriting, and then worked in the publishing house Sovietskiy Pisatel (The Soviet Writer). Vladimir Makanin's writing style is realism, his forte is that of depicting everyday life experiences and then studying their psychological impact on the person.

[edit] Selected bibliography

  • Straight line novel 1967
  • Blue and Red novel 1971
  • The portrait and around novel 1977
  • Antileader novel 1980
  • Ancestor novel 1982
  • He and She novel 1987

[edit] Awards


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