Valery Popov
Valery Popov was born in Kazan into the family of a biologist, he graduated from Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University in 1963 and worked as an engineer until 1969; in 1970 he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. His first story was published in 1963 and his first collection, Yuzhnee, chem prezhde ("Further south than before") in 1969. During this period he was, along with Sergei Dovlatov, in a "group of aspiring young writers called Gorozhane (The Townsmen) — a group that included Vladimir Maramzin, Valery Popov, Boris Vakhtin, and Igor Yefimov." Jekaterina Young writes of these early stories: The emphasis is upon the narrator's complex reactions and the construction of a world that is unusual and even absurd.
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Valery Popov
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- Full name
- Валерий Георгиевич Попов.
- Born
- 1939. · Kazan.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Occupation
- writer, poet, screenwriter, editing staff, editor-in-chief and engineer.
- Fields
- short novel, verse, screenplay and novella.
- Education
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
- Honours
- Order of Friendship, Pushkin Medal, Medal In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg, Награды Санкт-Петербурга, Order For Merit in Culture and Art and Government Prize in Culture.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Valery Popov was born in Kazan into the family of a biologist, he graduated from Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University in 1963 and worked as an engineer until 1969; in 1970 he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. His first story was published in 1963 and his first collection, Yuzhnee, chem prezhde ("Further south than before") in 1969. During this period he was, along with Sergei Dovlatov, in a "group of aspiring young writers called Gorozhane (The Townsmen) — a group that included Vladimir Maramzin, Valery Popov, Boris Vakhtin, and Igor Yefimov." Jekaterina Young writes of these early stories: The emphasis is upon the narrator's complex reactions and the construction of a world that is unusual and even absurd.
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Recorded at birth as Валерий Георгиевич Попов.
Valery Popov studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are short novel, verse, screenplay and novella. Positions recorded include editor-in-chief. Distinctions recorded are Order of Friendship, Pushkin Medal, Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg" and Награды Санкт-Петербурга.
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- 1.Mikhail N. Epstein, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (Berghahn Books, 1999; ), p. 493.
- 2.Vineta Colby, World Authors, 1980-1985 (H.W. Wilson Co., 1991; ), p. 228.
- 3.Jekaterina Young, Sergei Dovlatov and His Narrative Masks (Northwestern University Press, 2009; ), p. 10.
- 4.Epstein, Russian Postmodernism, p. 494.
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