Zinovy Zinik
ZinovyZinik is a Moscow-born novelist and broadcaster. He studied art and latergeometrical topology at MoscowUniversity. He emigratedin 1975 and worked as a theatre director for a student theatre group in Jerusalem. Since 1976 hehas lived and worked in London.He regularly contributes to BBC Radio, the Times Literary Supplement and otherperiodicals. He is the editor and presenter of West End, aweekly radio show for the BBC Russian Service. Zinovy's nine books of fiction have been translated into a number of Europeanlanguages. Of his recent books, Zinik's collection of short stories in English Mind theDoors was published in 2002 by Context Books, New York. A Russian version of hiscollection of stories and sketches AtHome Abroad, written originally for the TLS, was published by Tri Kvadratain Moscow,2007. His novel TheMushroom Picker was made into a film for BBC Television in 1994. His novel Russian Service, as well as a number of his short stories, wereadapted for BBC Radio 3 and for Radio France. During the 1990s three ofhis novels in Russian were nominated for the Russian Booker in Moscow. Zinik's dramaticfarce Here Comes the Tiger, set tomusic by Gerard McBurney, was first performed by The Gogmagogs at the LondonCity Festival in 1999. His radio documentary on Berlin Afterthe Wall was awarded the BronzeMedal at the New York International Radio Festival in 2001. His dramatic radio monologue MyFather's Leg was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in 2003. Zinovy is a member of The Colony Room Club in Soho.
