German Sadulaev
| German Sadulaev | |
|---|---|
 Sadulayev at the press conference about the shortlisted authors of the Russian Prize, Yeltsin Center, Moscow, 20.03.2012 | |
| Born |
18 February 1973 Shali, Chechen Republic |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Language | Russian |
| Nationality |
 Russia |
| Ethnicity | Chechen |
German Umaralievich Sadulaev (Russian: Герман Умаралиевич Садулаев, born 2 February 1973) is a Chechen writer.
Biography
German Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, to a Chechen father and Terek Cossack mother.
In 1989, aged sixteen, he left Chechnya to study law at Leningrad State University. Today he lives and works as a lawyer in St Petersburg.
German Sadulaev’s first book, Radio FUCK, told city tales of the thirty-something generation in St Petersburg. It made no mention of Chechnya. With the publication of his second book, I am a Chechen!, critics acclaimed Sadulaev as "the literary find of the year" . Much more than a war novel, it was a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories, nominated for the National Bestseller prize. Sadulaev's next work, Snowstorm, or The Myth of the End of the World, was a grotesque fantasy satire about social Darwinism. It won the Eureka prize. Sadulaev’s fourth book, The Maya Pill, was shortlisted for the 2008 Russian Booker and for the 2009 National Bestseller .
German Sadulaev's I am a Chechen! (translated by Anna Gunin) was published by Harvill Secker in 2010. The Maya Pill (translated by Carol Apollonio) will be published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2013.
Works
- Radio FUCK / Радио FUCK (2006)
- I am a Chechen! (2010) / Я – чеченец! (2006)
- Snowstorm, or The Myth of the End of the World / Пурга, или Миф о конце света (2008)
- The Maya Pill (2013) / Таблетка (2008)
External links
- 'Once Upon a Life' Article by German Sadulaev in the Observer magazine
- Newspaper interview In Metro, 2010
- Radio interview With Mark Coles, The Strand, BBC World Service, 2010
- Online texts (Russian)
- Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Amazon)
- I am a Chechen! (Amazon)