Oleg Nikolayevich Yermakov

Oleg Yermakov in 2013

Oleg Nikolajewitsch Yermakow ( Russian Олег Николаевич Ермаков ; born February 20, 1961 in Smolensk ) is a Russian writer.

Life

After attending secondary school in his birthplace, Yermakov worked as a forest ranger on Baikal and Lake Teletsk from 1978 to 1979 . 1979–1981 he wrote there for the provincial newspaper Красное Знамя (Red Flag). 1981-1983 Yermakov served as a soldier in the artillery of the Soviet Army in the Afghanistan war . Returning to his hometown in 1983, he wrote for newspapers until 1985. 1985–1989 he was one of the guards and employees of the Smolensk Hydrometeorological Center.

In 1989 Yermakov became a member of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR . He has been a member of the Russian Writers' Union since 1992 and a member of the Russian PEN since 1995. Yermakov has been a member of the jury of the O. Henry Prize since 2011 .

The forest ranger Oleg Yermakov

German language translations

• Oleg Yermakov: Spring excursion in: Soviet literature 1990, pp. 52–61
• Oleg Yermakov: Winter in Afghanistan. Stories. Translated from the Russian by Ganna-Maria Braungardt and Renate Landa (The baptism of fire. Troop exercise. Winter in Afghanistan. Happy homecoming. Feasts on the violet river. A snow-blown house. The yellow mountain). Volk und Welt (spectrum, first edition), Berlin 1991, 197 pages, ISBN 3-353-00834-9

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• in Russian language:
  • Ермаков, Олег Николаевич
  • Short biography in thankyou.ru (with a photo)
• Bodo Zelinsky (Ed.): Russian stories of the present. Pp. 331-332, Reclam, Stuttgart 1992, RUB 8829. ISBN 3-15-008829-1