Victor Pelevin
Born in Moscow in 1962, VICTOR PELEVIN has established a reputation as one of the most interesting of the younger generation of Russian writers. He has degrees from Moscow's Gorky Institute of Literature and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and Open City. He was selected by the New Yorker as one of the Best European Writers Under 35 and by The Observer as one of the 21 Writers for the 21st Century. His novel Numbers won the Grigoriev Prize from the Russian Academy of Critics...See more
Born in Moscow in 1962, VICTOR PELEVIN has established a reputation as one of the most interesting of the younger generation of Russian writers. He has degrees from Moscow's Gorky Institute of Literature and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and Open City. He was selected by the New Yorker as one of the Best European Writers Under 35 and by The Observer as one of the 21 Writers for the 21st Century. His novel Numbers won the Grigoriev Prize from the Russian Academy of Critics 2004. See less
Victor Pelevin's Featured Books
Victor Pelevin book reviews
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Buddha's Little Finger
by barabek, Oct 23, 2008
One of the best fiction books I ever read.
10 out of 10 Read More
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The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
Evolutionary Dead End
by MissP, Mar 7, 2008
I have been following the Canongate Myth Series a best as I can. I have found most of the books in the series to be short, provocative, but limited in scope. Pelevin's retelling of the myth of ... Read More
