German Sadulaev
German Sadulaev at the Free the Word! Festival
9 April, 2pm, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road City of London EC1R 3GA
Lunchtime Bites – Free the Word! Festival
10 April, 1pm, Foyles, 113 – 119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB
War and Nationalism in Contemporary Russian Fiction
11 April, 7pm, London Review of Books, 14 Bury Place London WC1A 2JL
Lunchtime Readings
12 April, 1.15pm, Pushkin House, 5A, Bloomsbury Sq, London WC1A
I am a Chechen! – presented by German Sadulaev, author, and Galina Dursthoff Literary Agency
12 April, 3pm, Russian Pavilion W555, EC 2, LBF
Biography
German Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, to a Chechen father and Terek Cossack mother. In 1989, aged sixteen, he left Chechnya to study law at Leningrad State University. Today he lives and works as a lawyer in St Petersburg. German Sadulaev’s first book, Radio FUCK, told the urban tales of thirty-somethings in St Petersburg. It made no mention of Chechnya.
After the publication of his second book, I am a Chechen!, which was nominated for the National Bestseller Prize, critics acclaimed Sadulaev as 'the literary find of the year'. Much more than a war novel, I am a Chechen! is a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories. Sadulaev's next works, Snowstorm, or The Myth of the End of the World, a grotesque fantasy satire about social Darwinism, and The Tablet, a bold juxtaposition of the ancient Caspian kingdom of Khazaria with modern global capitalism, have also garnered positive critical notices.
His latest novel, The Raid on Shali, a lyrical meditation on life in Chechnya in the 1990s, was shortlisted for the 2010 Russian Booker and the Big Book Prize.
Read an interview with German Sadulaev here.
Books /selected/
Шалинский рейд / The Raid on Shali (2010)
Таблетка / The Tablet (2008)
Радио FUCK / Radio FUCK (2006)
Я – чеченец! / I am a Chechen! (2006)
In Translation
in English
I am a Chechen! (2010)
Prizes and awards
2010 - Shortlisted for the Big Book Prize
2010 - Shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize
2008 - Shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize
2008 - Shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize
