Zinovy Zinik is a Russian-born British novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
10 Facts About Zinovy Zinik
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Zinovy Zinik attended a school of theatre criticism run by Moscow theatre magazine Teatr.
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At the beginning of the 1960s, Zinovy Zinik became a close friend and associate of the conceptual artist Alexander Melamid.
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In 1975, Zinovy Zinik was stripped of his Soviet citizenship with his emigration to the West.
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Zinovy Zinik was one of the first Russian authors of his generation who chose to depict the lives of his compatriots outside Russia.
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Zinovy Zinik's prose has been translated into Dutch, Hebrew, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, German, Lithuanian and Estonian.
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Zinovy Zinik has taught creative writing at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Wesleyan University, Ct, USA; University of Denver Co.
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Zinovy Zinik regularly contributes to BBC Radio, the Times Literary Supplement and other periodicals.
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Until 2011, Zinovy Zinik had been the freelance editor and presenter of his "West End Radio Review" for the BBC World Service in Russian and, until 2018, the UK Editor of the satirical quarterly Artenol.
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Zinovy Zinik has written several essays and short stories in Russian that have been published in a variety of journals and publications.