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Aleksandr Skorobogatov was born in Grodno in what is now Belorussia. He is one of the most original Russian writers of the post-communist era. An heir to Dostoevsky, Gogol, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pelevin, and Sorokin—the surreal line of the Russian literary canon—his novels have been published to great acclaim in Russian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Serbian, and Spanish. He won the prestigious International Literary Award Città di Penne for the Italian edition of Russian Gothic, which also received the Best Novel of the Year Award from Yunost. Cocaine (2017) won Belgium’s Cutting Edge Award for ‘Best Book International’. His most recent novel, Raccoon, was published by De Geus in 2020. De Tijd has called Skorobogatov ""the best Russian writer of the moment."" He lives and works in Belgium.
"""A violent, drunken, hallucinatory window into post-Soviet fiction."" —The Telegraph ""While themes of sexual jealousy are as old as Ovid, we rarely see partner abuse in adult fiction, and Skorobogatov’s complex psychological portrait linking it to the PTSD of war is riveting."" —The Sunday Times ""...there are many things to mark Russian Gothic, the tale of an intense, grief-stricken violent marriage blown apart by jealousy and paranoia, as an exciting prospect."" —Big Issue ""Readers won’t be able to turn away."" —Publishers Weekly starred review “[A] haunting masterpiece of jealousy and rage.” —CrimeReads"
