Dmitry Bykov | Dostoevsky as the Russian Dickens

Fiction writer, journalist, literary critic, TV/radio personality.
Born in Moscow, Russia. Currently resides in Moscow.
Graduated with honours from Moscow State University, with a degree in journalism.
Career years – 1982 to present day.

Bykov has written over 65 books, including poetry collections, fictional prose, critical essays and many other genres. Some of his poetry and fiction has been published in English and German.
A respected biographer, he has written the lives of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maksim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky. The biographies have been translated into French, Italian, Norwegian and Chinese.
In 2013 Bykov joined forces with actor Mikhail Efremov to create Citizen Poet - a political satire project, in which Efremov read Bykov’s poems. Videos of the readings went viral, with the project enjoying immense popularity among the liberally-minded Russians.

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