Viktor Olegovich PELEVIN

1996
  • Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • Russia
Russian

Viktor Olegovich PELEVIN (fiction writer, Russia) has received considerable recognition in international literary circles. He received the Russian equivalent of the Booker Prize in 1993, which led to a workshop on creative writing held in Great Britain. New Directions Books published a collection of stories, as well as The Yellow Arrow; his novel Omon Ra is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. These books have appeared simultaneously abroad, and include another novel, The Life of Insects (forthcoming in Britain, France, the Netherlands), and a short fiction collection is coming out in Japan, The Blue Lantern. His other works are a fiction collection in two volumes, Tambourine to the Upper World and Tambourine to the Lower World. He is taking part in the IWP through the US Information Agency.

Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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