Владимир Сорокин (5)
Настоящее имя: Владимир Сорокин (5)
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Russian postmodernist/conceptualist writer, dramatist, and painter (b. 7 August 1955, Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, USSR). Vladimir Sorokin wrote eleven novels and numerous short stories, often cited as one of the modern "classics" in Russian literature. His books have been translated into English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Serbian, Korean, Romanian, Estonian, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Croatian and Slovenian languages, available through various prominent publishing houses, such as Editions Gallimard, Fischer, Haffmans Verlag, BV Berlin and Verlag Der Autoren. Many of Sorokin's works deal with controversial and extreme topics, ranging from coprophilia to cannibalism; his books were banned both during the Soviet period and in modern Russia. Despite being a devout Christian, he often depicts subjects that most religious writers would deem far too obscene.