Evgenii Anatol'evich Popov

David Gillespie (University of Bath)

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 5 Jan 1946
Activity 1976-ongoing

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Russia

Activities

Primary

Humorist
Novelist
Satirist
Story-writer

Resources

Popov's Works

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Evgenii Popov is a writer of satirical, occasionally rumbustious prose works, most of which are rooted in his own experience. His forbidden works of the 1970s and 1980s showed the seamy and violent side of Soviet provincial life, far from the centres of cultural or political power, revealing the nakedness of a society shorn of its ideological clothing. In his post-Soviet writings, he continues to lambast authority for its neglect of the Russian people and their pauperisation in the 1990s, but he also attacks the injustices of Russian history, geography and even anthropology.

Born in 1946 in Krasnoiarsk in Siberia, Popov trained as a geologist while attempting to break into the artistic élite of Moscow. His first stories were published in Novyi mir in 1976, with a foreword by Vasilii

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Citation: Gillespie, David. "Evgenii Anatol'evich Popov". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 November 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=6028, accessed 22 November 2024.]