Oleg Pavlov

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Oleg Pavlov


Born
in Moscow, Russian Federation
March 16, 1970

Died
October 07, 2018

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Oleg Pavlov (Russian: Олег Олегович Павлов; born: March 16, 1970 in Moscow) was a prominent Russian writer, and a winner of the Russian Booker Prize.

Born in Moscow, he served in the Interior Ministry troops near the city of Karaganda. The events that Pavlov portrayed in his stories and novels were inspired by his own experiences as a prison camp guard.

During his service, Pavlov suffered a head injury, was hospitalised, and spent over a month in a psychiatric ward. This allowed him to be released from the army before the end of the mandatory two-year military service. He went on to study at the Institute of Literature in Moscow.

He was only 24 years old when his first novel, Kazennaya skazka, was published in the Novy Mir Russian monthly maga
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Captain of the Steppe

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The Matiushin Case

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Dziennik szpitalnego ochron...

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Requiem for a Soldier

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Asystole: A Novel

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Orosz trilógia

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Capitano della steppa

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Recits des derniers jours

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“While you were content with just one square foot of land in the world, you stood on just that one square foot. But the moment you looked up at the sky, you scraped your dirty face against its vastness. And you felt so vile: the most you could ever do on your own little patch of land was choke on it or defile it. You were a low, creeping creature in these expanses, and you’d been given a square foot of ground as an act of mercy. But how can you live if you hate life itself? You’ll live with a struggle, in a fury … Croak? No damn way! Shove over? You go and croak!”
Oleg Pavlov, The Matiushin Case

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