Andrei Gelasimov

Andrei Gelasimov was born in Irkutsk in 1965. He studied at the University for International Languages in Irkutsk, and attended directing classes at the Moscow Theater Institute. He has become a Russian literary star overnight. His story The Sensitive Age, which was published on the Internet in 2002, was awarded a prize for the best debut. -- Words Without Borders

Gelasimov‘s novel “Steppe Gods” won the 2009 National Bestseller literary award (St. Petersburg). -- Kenyon Review