ALEXEI EVDOKIMOV, born in 1975, is one half of the author team Garros-Evdokimov, best known for their award-winning novel Headcrusher ([golovo] lomka), which has been translated into eight languages. Their subsequent novels are Gray Goo (Seraya sliz’) and Truck Factor (Factor fury). Evdokimov has also published the solo novels Zero-Zero (Nol’-nol’) and Cinephobia. RU (TIK).
JULIA GOUMEN was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977. With a PhD in English, she has been working in publishing since 2001, starting her own literary agency after three years as a foreign rights manager. Since 2006 Goumen has run the Goumen & Smirnova Literary Agency with Natalia Smirnova.
ANDREI KHUSNUTDINOV, born in 1967, writes in the sci-fi genre, although his prose has often been compared with that of Franz Kafka. He is the author of the novels Danai Greeks (Danaitsy), Huguenot (Gugenot), and Table Rock (Stolovaya gora), the last of which was on the long list for the 2008 Russian Booker Prize.
DMITRY KOSYREV, a.k.a. Master Chen, born in 1955, has written for leading newspapers such as Pravda, Rossiiskaia Gazeta, and Nezavisimaya Gazeta, and other publications since the 1970s. An expert on China, he has lived in various regions of Asia. Kosyrev is the author of the spy novels The Pet Monkey of the House of Tang, The Pet Hawk of the House of Abbas, Amalia and the White Apparition, and Amalia and the Generalissimo. He currently resides in Moscow with his wife and two daughters.
VYACHESLAV KURITSYN, a.k.a. Andrei Turgenev, was born in 1965 in Novosibirsk. He is the founder of both the humanitarian conference “Kuritsyn’s Readings” and the website Contemporary Russian Prose with Vyacheslav Kuritsyn. He is the nationally acclaimed author of a number of books of prose and poetry, including the much-praised The Month of Arcachon (Mesyats Arcachon) and The Siege Novel (Spat’ i verit’), which was short-listed for the National Best Seller Prize and the Russian Booker Prize.
SERGEI KUZNETSOV was born in Moscow in 1966. In the late ’90s he became a leading Russian film and pop culture critic. He is the author of a detective trilogy, The Nineties: A Fairy Tale (Devyanostye: skazka), and a futuristic novel, No (Net), together with Linor Goralik. His book Butterfly Skin (Shkurka babochki) has acquired cult status in Russia and has been translated into German and Italian. He lives in Moscow with his wife and two children.
MAXIM MAXIMOV was born in Moscow in 1979. He has worked as a copywriter for several design and advertising agencies. He is the author of two volumes of poetry and is a fellow of the New Names program. He has published three novels: Moscow Umbrellas (Moskovskie zontiki), We’re Gone (Nas ne byvaet), and Far from Wrigley Gulf (Vdali ot zaliva Rigli).
LUDMILLA PETRUSHEVSKAYA was born in Moscow in 1938. Her first work was published in 1972, only to be followed by almost ten years of officially enforced silence, when her plays and prose were censored. Petrushevskaya’s novel The Time: Night (Vremya noch’) was short-listed for the 1992 Russian Booker Prize and translated into more than thirty languages. Since then, Petrushevskaya has published over thirty books of prose, and her award-winning plays are produced around the world.
SERGEI SAMSONOV was born in 1980 in Podolsk. He works as a copywriter in a Moscow publishing house and contributes to the Ex Libris NG book review. His first novel, Legs (Nogi), was translated into Italian. His second novel, The Kamlaev Anomaly (Anomalia Kamlaeva), was short-listed for the National Best Seller Prize. Samsonov’s most recent novel, Oxygenic Limit (Kislorodny predel), was published in 2009.
