Writers

Vladimir Kozlov

Born: 1972

Vladimir Kozlov was born in 1972 in Mogilev, an industrial city in the eastern part of what was then the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and spent his childhood and adolescence in the suburbs of that city, witnessing the collapse of the Soviet empire and the advent of post-Soviet “wild” capitalism. Kozlov is the author of a dozen books of prose and non-fiction, including Gopniki (“Hoods”) (2002), SSSR (“USSR”) (2009, long-listed for the Big Book Prize), and Domoy (“The Return”) (2010, long-listed for the National Bestseller Award). His non-fiction books include Realnaya Kultura (“True Culture”) (2008), Fanaty (“Soccer Fans”) (2008) and Emo (2007). Two of Kozlov’s books have been published in French translation, and several short stories have been published in English in US literary journals and in the anthology Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House Books, 2009).