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Life

Makanin is a writer of novels and short stories

Short Stories

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. He graduated from Moscow State University

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 and worked as a mathematician in the Military Academy until the early 1960s. In 1963 he took a course in scriptwriting, and then worked in the publishing house Sovietskiy Pisatel (The Soviet Writer). Makanin's writing style may be categorized as realist

Literary realism

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. His forte lies in depicting the psychological impact of everyday life experiences.

English translations

• Antileader, from The New Soviet Fiction, Abbeville Press, NY, 1989.
• Baize-Covered Table With Decanter, Readers International, 1995.
• Escape Hatch, and The Long Road Ahead, Ardis Publishers, 1996.
• The Loss, Northwestern University Press, 1998.

Selected bibliography

• Straight line (Прямая линия), novel 1965
• Blue and Red, (Голубое и красное) novel 1975
• The Portrait and Around (Портрет и вокруг), novel 1978
• Antileader, novel 1980
• Ancestor, novel 1982
• He and She, novel 1987
• The Underground, or a Hero of Our Time, (Андерграунд, или Герой нашего времени) novel 1999
• Asan, (Acaн), novel 1988

Awards

• 1993 Russian Booker Prize
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   for Baize-covered Table with Decanter
• 1998 Pushkin Prize
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   for his oeuvre
• 1999 State Prize of the Russian Federation
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• 2001 Italian
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   Premio Penne