Yevgeny Popov
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Yevgeny Popov (Евгений Анатольевич Попов) (born Krasnoyarsk, 1946) is a Russian writer, known for short stories. He trained as a geologist, but from 1975 supported himself in Moscow in order to write.
His stories began to be published in large numbers in the 1990s; he has also written a novel. He uses elements of fairy tale construction and literary parody.
[edit] References
- Sally Laird, Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers(6)
- Anatoly Vishevsky, Creating a Shattered World: Toward the Poetics of Yevgeny Popov, World Literature Today, Vol. 67, 1993
