Zinovy Zinik

Tanya Linaker (King's College London)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 16 Jun 1945
Activity 1965-ongoing

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Russia; England

Activities

Primary

Journalist
Literary Critic/ Historian

Resources

Zinik's Works

Save to Bookshelf

Zinovii Gluzberg (pen name Zinovy Zinik) was born in Moscow in 1945. He studied art and geometrical topology at Moscow University, whilst publishing theatre reviews and participating in

samizdat

literary circles. He left Russia in 1975 for Israel, where he directed a student theatre group, before moving to Paris for a few months, where his first novels were published in French. Since 1976 he has lived in London, writing for several magazines and newspapers including the

TLS

[

Times Literary Supplement

], the

Spectator

The Listener

The Guardian

and

The Independent

, as well as hosting a weekly radio programme, “West End”, on the BBC’s Russian Service. He is widely translated into a number of European languages and his novel

The Mushroom Picker

was serialised by the BBC television in…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

2261 words

Citation: Linaker, Tanya. "Zinovy Zinik". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 May 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12109, accessed 22 November 2024.]