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Oleg Pavlov ( Russian: Олег Олегович Павлов; 16 March 1970 – 7 October 2018) was a prominent Russian writer and winner of the
Russian Booker Prize The Russian Booker Prize (, ''Russian Booker'') was a Russian literary award modeled after the Booker Prize. It was awarded from 1992 to 2017. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris Caine. It was awarded each year to ...
. He was only 24 years old when his first novel, ''Captain of the Steppe'', was published, receiving praise not only from critics but from the jury of the Russian Booker Prize, which shortlisted the novel for the 1995 award. Pavlov went on to win the Prize in 2002 with his next book, ''The Matiushin Case'' (English translation published in 2014 by And Other Stories). ''The Matiushin Case'' was the second novel in what would become the thematic trilogy set in the last days of the Soviet empire: ''Tales from the Last Days.'' All three works in the trilogy are stand-alone novels. The third book, ''Requiem for a Soldier,'' was published by And Other Stories in 2015.


Life

Born in Moscow in 1970, Pavlov spent his military service as a prison guard in
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. Many of the incidents portrayed in his fiction were inspired by his experiences there. During his service, Pavlov suffered a head injury, was hospitalised, and spent over a month in a
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. This allowed him to be released from the army before the end of the mandatory two-year military service. He went on to study at the
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in Moscow.


Work

He was only 24 years old when his first novel, ''Captain of the Steppe'', was published, receiving praise not only from critics but also from the jury of the
Russian Booker Prize The Russian Booker Prize (, ''Russian Booker'') was a Russian literary award modeled after the Booker Prize. It was awarded from 1992 to 2017. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris Caine. It was awarded each year to ...
, which shortlisted the novel for the 1995 award. Pavlov went on to win the Prize in 2002 with his next book, the second novel in what would become the trilogy ''Tales from the Last Days''. Pavlov was also the author of articles on literature and historical and social aspects of life in Russia, as well as numerous essays. In his 2003 book "The Russian Man in the 20th Century", he wrote about Russian life, not only based on his personal experience, but also on numerous letters received from the
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and Soviet dissidents, dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag pris ...
Foundation in the early 1990s, which were given to him by the famous Russian writer and dissident and his wife, Natalia. Oleg Pavlov is said to be one of the most gifted examples of what has been dubbed the "renaissance in
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.

''Captain of the Steppe'' has been translated into English by Ian Appleby and published by independent London publisher
And Other Stories And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
in 2013.


Death

Pavlov died, in Moscow, of a heart attack on October 7, 2018


Awards

*2017
Angelus Award The Angelus Central European Literature Award also known as Angelus Award () is a Polish international literary award established in 2006 and presented by the city of Wrocław, Lower Silesia. The award is given annually for best prose books writ ...
(Poland) *2012
Solzhenitsyn Prize The Solzhenitsyn Prize is a non-governmental Russian literary award established by the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1997. The $25,000 prize is awarded for "works in which troubles of the Russian life are shown with rare moral purity an ...
(Russia) *
Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger The Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) is a French literary prize created in 1948. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Novel and Essay for books translated into French. Prix du Meilleur livre étranger — Novel *2022 ...
2012 *Shortlisted for Russian National Literary Award 'Big Book' (2010) *Znamya Literary Magazine Prize (2009) *October Literary Magazine Prize (Best Fiction of the Year 1997, 2002) *
Russian Booker Prize The Russian Booker Prize (, ''Russian Booker'') was a Russian literary award modeled after the Booker Prize. It was awarded from 1992 to 2017. It was inaugurated by English Chief Executive Sir Michael Harris Caine. It was awarded each year to ...
(2002) *Novy Mir Literary Magazine Prize (1995) *Russian Booker of the Decade nominee (2011)ELKOST International Literary Agents for Oleg Pavlov
Retrieved 23 January 2013


Novels


''Captain of the Steppe''
(trans. Ian Appleby):
And Other Stories And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
, UK (2013). *''The Matiushin Case'':
And Other Stories And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
, UK (2014). *''Requiem for a soldier'' (trans. Anna Gunin):
And Other Stories And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
, UK (2015)


References


External links


Oleg Pavlov's official site
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