Sergei Alexandrovich Shargunov

Sergei Shargunov, 2015

Sergei Alexandrowitsch Schargunow ( Russian Сергей Александрович Шаргунов , scientific transliteration Sergej Aleksandrovič Šargunov ; born May 12, 1980 in Moscow ) is a Russian writer .

Life

He studied journalism in Moscow and is a literary critic for newspapers such as Novy Mir and Nezavisimaya Gazeta . According to his own account, he wrote his first poem at the age of two. In 2001 he was awarded the Russian Debut Prize for his first novel Zwei Insel , and he donated his prize money to the imprisoned writer Eduard Limonow .

Along with authors like Irina Deneschkina, Shargunov is one of the “new realists” of Russian literature and writes about the everyday life of today's youth in Russia. Unlike Deneschkina, he strikes a critical tone and calls on the youth to protest. He distinguishes himself sharply from his colleagues. He accuses them of “always the same pattern” and describes their works as “the abyss of shameless writing mania”.

Shargunov was a member of the pro-government party Just Russia and was originally supposed to run for the Duma in the 2007 parliamentary elections. However, under pressure from the environment of Russian President Vladimir Putin , his list was withdrawn, as he had repeatedly made negative comments about Putin and, among other things, described him as the “grave digger of the country”. Shargunov was later expelled from the party.

Works

1993

In 2013, Shargunov published the book in 1993 . The book begins in 1993, in the period after Perestroika; it is a family chronicle linked to historical research. In the year in which it is named, there is almost civil war in the center of Moscow; in this time of great hopes and tremors he and she are on different sides of the barricades. The story of one family suddenly becomes the story of the whole country.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.perlentaucher.de/magazinrundschau/2003-12-15.html
2. ^ Uwe Klußmann: Elections in Russia: Putin's socialist test tube baby. In: Spiegel Online . November 29, 2007, accessed June 10, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Sergey Shargunov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Article on a report about him on 3sat