Gary Shteyngart

Martyna Bryla (Universidad de Malaga)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia, Sofia Ahlberg, Uppsala University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 5 Jul 1972
Activity 2002-ongoing

Places

Born in Russia
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

Jewish

Activities

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Shteyngart's Works

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Since his literary debut in 2002, Russian-American author Gary Shteyngart has garnered popular attention and critical acclaim for his exuberant transnational satires. So far, Shteyngart has written five novels, a memoir, and a number of essays, short stories, and magazine articles. He has been a consulting producer for the HBO series

The Regime

, starring Kate Winslet as the authoritarian leader of an imaginary Central European state, as well as a literary consultant for

Succession

, an HBO hit drama about dysfunctional family dynamics in a high-finance world. These extra-literary engagements come as no surprise given the subjects explored in Shteyngart’s fiction. Shteyngart channeled his interest in the sociopolitical effects of totalitarianisms in

The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

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Citation: Bryla, Martyna. "Gary Shteyngart". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 October 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14976, accessed 23 November 2024.]