Eugene Vodolazkin was born in Kiev and has worked in the department of Old Russian Literature at Pushkin House since 1990. He is an expert in medieval Russian history and folklore. His debut novel Solovyov and Larionov (Oneworld, 2018) was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and Russia's National Big Book Award. Laurus, his second novel but the first to be translated into English, won the National Big Book Award and the Yasnaya Polyana Award and was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize, the Russian Booker Prize, and the New Literature Award, and has been translated into eighteen languages. He lives in St Petersburg.
ARTICLES FEATURING EUGENE
Another Kind of Onward Motion: Death and Other Journeys in Eugene Vodolazkin’s “Solovyov and Larionov”
Muireann Maguire appreciates the death-haunted satire of “Solovyov and Larionov” by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden....
What History Cannot Teach Us: A Conversation with Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden
Maya Vinokour speaks to Eugene Vodolozakin about his latest novel, “The Aviator,” and to his longtime translator, Lisa Hayden....
The Russian Soul: Janet Fitch on Eugene Vodolazkin
"Laurus" is no seamless dream of Russia's past but a very clever, self-aware contemporary novel that nevertheless holds that dream deep in its heart....
