Victor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer.
24 Facts About Victor Pelevin
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Victor Pelevin is a laureate of multiple literary awards including the Russian Little Booker Prize and the Russian National Bestseller, the former for the short story collection The Blue Lantern.
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Victor Pelevin's books are multi-layered postmodernist texts fusing elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies while carrying conventions of the science fiction genre.
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Victor Olegovich Pelevin was born in Moscow on 22 November 1962 to Zinaida Semenovna Efremova, an English teacher, and Oleg Anatolyevich Pelevin, a teacher at the military department of Bauman University.
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Victor Pelevin lived on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow, later moving to Chertanovo.
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Victor Pelevin then attended the Moscow Power Engineering Institute graduating with a degree in electromechanical engineering in 1985.
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From 1987 to 1989, Victor Pelevin attended the MPEI graduate school.
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Victor Pelevin has repeatedly said that despite the fact that his characters use drugs, he is not an addict even though he experimented with mind-expanding substances in his youth.
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In December 2018, the media reported that the writer Victor Pelevin registered in the register of individual entrepreneurs in the territorial office of the Pension Fund in Moscow.
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In 1989, Victor Pelevin attended Mikhail Lobanov's creative writing seminar at Maxim Gorky Literary Institute.
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Egazarov and Kulle went on to found a publishing house, first called The Day, then The Raven and Myth, for which Victor Pelevin has edited three volumes of Carlos Castaneda's work.
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From 1989 to 1990, Victor Pelevin worked as a staff reporter of the magazine Face to Face.
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In 1991, Victor Pelevin published his first collection of stories The Blue Lantern.
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In March 1992, Victor Pelevin published his first novel Omon Ra in the literary journal Znamya.
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In 1993, Victor Pelevin published an essay "John Fowles and the tragedy of Russian liberalism" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
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In 1996, Victor Pelevin participated in the International Writing Program residency at the University of Iowa.
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In 2003, Victor Pelevin published the novel The Dialectics of Transition Period from Out of Nowhere to Nowhere or DTP, receiving the Apollon Grigoryev Prize in 2003 and the National Bestseller award in 2004.
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Victor Pelevin's books have been translated into many languages including Japanese and Chinese.
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Victor Pelevin is known for not being a part of the literary crowd, rarely appearing in public or giving interviews and preferring to communicate on the internet.
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For instance, it has been suggested that the writer does not exist and Victor Pelevin is actually a code name for a group of authors or even a computer.
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Victor Pelevin has permitted all of his texts in Russian predating 2009 to be published on the Internet for non-commercial use.
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In March 2013, Victor Pelevin's eleventh novel "Batman Apollo" was released, which is a sequel to "Empire V".
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Victor Pelevin's prose, creating a mythologized and multi-layered picture of reality, is built on the interweaving of the fantastic and the real, the historical and the fictional.
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Victor Pelevin's works are characterized by the mixing of elements of different genres - adventure novel and parable, fairy tale and anecdote, pamphlet and utopia.