Vasily Alexandrovich Dimov

Vasily Dimov

Wassili Alexandrowitsch Dimow , Russian Василий Александрович Димов (also Vasiliy Dimov , Vasilij Dimov , Wassilij Dimow ; born January 7, 1957 in Ismajil , Ukrainian SSR ), is a contemporary Russian writer who writes in the style of "fictional realism".

Life

Vasily Dimov studied journalism at the Moscow State Lomonosov University from 1973 to 1978 and has lived in Moscow ever since .

Publications

His first book, Profile in the Glued Mirror (Russian Профиль в склеенном зеркале ), was published in 1991 by the Moscow publishing house Arena. The band consists of five novels, two of which are also published in German: From hündischem charm (Russian О господине П., однажды меня предавшем, и о резерве собачьего обаяния ) Lettre International - Berlin, 1996, # 34 and A Seraph ... Two Seraphim… (Russian Один Серафим… Два Серафима ) Lettre International - Berlin, 2001, # 55.

His first novel, Allusionen des Heiligen Possekel (Russian Аллюзии святого Поссекеля ), was published in Russian in 1996 by the Berlin publishing house Berliner Debatte and in 1997 was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize in the category “Best Russian Novel of 1996”. In 1997 the rights to the novel went to DuMont Buchverlag in Cologne, which published this novel in 1999 under the title Die Vier Leben des Heiligen Possekel in a translation by Sergej Gladkich in German ( ISBN 3-7701-4470-8 ).

His second novel, Tbilissimo (Russian “Тбилиссимо”), was published in 2003 by the Moscow publishing house О.Г.И. An excerpt had already appeared in 1997 in "Lettre International - Berlin, 1997, # 39", also in the translation by S. Gladkich. The dying culture of the southern Caucasus did not let go of Dimov; he dedicated his prose poem “Kafkasus” (Russian “Кафказус”) to her in 2010, which appeared in the Siberian magazine “Tag und Nacht” (Russian “День и ночь”). A year later this parable appeared in "Lettre International - Berlin" # 95 in German. In it, Kafka, Caucasus and Casus merge into one: the madness of war, the madness of peace, provocation and poetry. The continuation followed in 2012 with the volume “Anabecdi”, where Anabecdi means “print” in Georgian.

His third novel, Moscow Mondays (Russian “Москва по понедельникам”), was nominated for the Russian Booker in 2014 and was published in 2014 in the Siberian magazine “Tag und Nacht” No. 2. It is about a GDR student in Soviet Moscow. Another figure is the KGB employee Vladimir Vladimirovic, who not by chance is reminiscent of a politician from contemporary history.

Wassili Dimow has received multiple scholarships in Germany, the USA and Sweden, so u. a. at the “Literary Colloquium”, in the “Literaturwerkstatt Berlin”, in the Academie Schloss Solituede, in the artists' village Schöppingen and at the Baltic Center for Writers (Gotland, Sweden).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wassili Alexandrowitsch Dimow in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.dimovv.com