Living a Life

• Book ID: 126711833
• Publisher: Glas Publishers
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

Born in 1962, Valery Ronshin graduated with a degree in history from Petrozavodsk University in Karelia and went on to study at the Literature Institute in Moscow. He now lives in St Petersburg. He started writing relatively late but broke into top literary magazines almost immediately. Ronshin says that for the first thirty years he was «just living a life», moving from one provincial town to another and traveling on foot in Central Russia. He worked at different menial jobs and taught history for a spell before becoming a professional writer. As such, his greatest debt is to Daniil Kharms, the acknowledged Russian master of the absurd. Like Kharms, Ronshin is also a successful children's author with more than 20 books to his name. Unlike Kharms, he wrote the first detective novel for Russian young adults. Ronshin, whose children's stories appeal to grown-ups as well, considers that «a writer's job is to describe his age and die.»

✦ Subjects

Современная проза